Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. – The Matrix
Okay, it's not great. The other one was, "What do you get when Keanu Reeves does 'shrooms? Neo-sporin." See, I saved you from that.
Unplug yourself.
I mean, don't stop coming here. That would be silly, because you definitely want to associate yourself with someone who has the amazingly good hygiene and stellar good looks that I do. I mean, unplug yourself from places that make you mad.
Consciously, most of my posts, while letting you know the unvarnished Truth with a capital T* (*really, as best as I know it), are meant to poke fun at it. It might make you think about things that you really don't want to think about. I understand. I'm still sorry about that Kardashian meme.
Honestly, dating a Kardashian would be like dating a wookie®.
Well, obviously not that sorry.
Back to the Truth.
Most people that I talk to have an Agent Smith (from The Matrix, not that pesky ATF guy who keeps asking if the stuffed dog I have is filled with Tannerite, because, let's face it, the only thing that ATF agents love shooting more than kids is dogs) moment.
No, the Agent Smith moment I have with friends goes like this: I talk about facts. They nod. I talk about actual events. They nod. Then I bring up a premise that is inescapable: "So, we agree gravity exists." Nod. "And I'm holding a coffee mug over a 1,000 foot (4.3 Celsius) cliff." Nod. "And if I drop it, it will fall down, and shatter into a million pieces, and it will never be able to be put together again."
Then Agent Smith takes over the conversation. "Well, I don't want to think about that." The conversation is over. There is a step that they cannot take. It's like me trying to convince them that a constant diet of candy corn, Twinkies®, fried Snickers® bars, and drinking the fluid from a chocolate fountain that 359 kindergarteners have been putting their booger-soaked fingers into isn't a good diet.
This is what happens when you follow the USDA food pyramid.
I recall having a conversation several years ago with a guy on the Left. "Yes, John Wilder, I agree. Massive immigration is destroying every one of the values in our country. But strawberries might be more expensive if we didn't allow them in."
My response was rather simple, "So, you, a guy on the Left, wants to pay people less so you can have cheaper strawberries? Wouldn't it be simpler to pay people more, pay less than 1% of what you make in a month to pay Americans enough to give you strawberries?"
Agent Smith took over his mind. "Umm, well, I don't understand those things very well."
I took him to the ledge, but he refused to look over.
But, hey, he saved $0.35 this week.
That's the Truth. And, I assure you, the Truth is your friend.
What is Truth? Step on a scale. Look down. The number is the Truth. Try to pick up a weight. If you can, you can. That is Truth. The Iron never lies. The scale never lies.
I was working with a person who noted I had lost some weight. He asked me, "How can I lose weight?"
My response was simple: "Weigh yourself. Every day. The scale doesn't lie."
The look on his face was amazing. I think he wanted me to tell him, "Believe in aliens, bigfoot (bigfeet?) and the Loch Ness Monster, drink seven shots of Hershey's® chocolate syrup ever night, and you'll lose 27 pounds a week." When I told him to weigh himself, his face fell.
He didn't want the Truth. And I didn't follow up with, "By the way, I also rarely eat between Saturday night and Friday," because that would bake the gourd of most people. They don't want to know that losing weight sucks, that it requires amazing work and walking into the house at night after work and telling The Mrs., "No dinner for me, I'm fasting."
I've been doing this whole Intermittent Fasting thing. Bums me out. I did it at least nine times today.
People want pretty lies. Yet, the healthiest thing for them is the Truth. Just before I started writing this, Frequent Commenter Ricky emailed me a story that said that, per FDA guidelines, water could not be labeled as, "healthy". So, enjoy all the Gatorade®, Pepsi
, and Coca-Slop© that you want. It doesn't have fat in it, so, according to bad science dating back to before I was born, it's better for you than water.
Nope, the Truth sucks. People are awful. Bad guys win – a lot. People get old. And then they die. All of us die. And, the FDA lies. But, most of you come here regularly. Can you handle the Truth? Yup, you can. And you seek it. I think most of you understand that.
But there is a group of people who are trying to demoralize you. The easiest way to win a battle, per George S. Patton, Jr., is to make the enemy afraid of you. Yet, they wouldn't have to do any of this if they had won.
They haven't won. They are desperate to win, yet you and I remain, stubborn, like islands in the middle of a hurricane. We live. We persist. And we will win. That's what scares them the most.
Why am I so stubborn? I'm not telling you.
So, when you see something that makes you feel like all is lost, remember, that's them whispering in your ear. The want you to think that you can't win, even though everything that is right, beautiful, and True is on your side. When you see this sort of demoralization?
Turn it off.
Don't go back. Not because you're afraid of opposing viewpoints, but because you refuse to have your emotions manipulated. Never, ever, let Agent Smith inside. Seek the Truth. It's there. Unless it's a Kardashian that isn't hairy.
That's a lie.
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