Insanity

Back in the seventies when I was officially a student of the behavioral sciences, I remember reading in our abnormal psychology text that some study had determined that only 13% of the American population was “normal”. That, of course, left the other 87% of us to be “abnormal”. I also remember my amusement at how the findings utterly contradicted the definition of the words. At any rate, today I find myself wondering just when it was that we came to accept idiocy as the norm. The Supreme Court’s appointment of George W. Bush as President in 2000 comes to mind, but it sadly started before that. I remember a time when I touted Methodism as a thinking person’s religion but there is sore little evidence of that to be found in today’s populist church. We supposedly shudder in horror when shootings like yesterday’s at the Holocaust Museum take place, and yet Americans have a worldwide reputation for their idiotic interpretation of the right to bear arms. I have no idea where we are all headed, but I don’t hold out a great deal of hope for the nation of idiots we seem to have become.