TheLogicIsWrong

Ok, Human conditioning is both a disease and a blessing.

Number one. Dummying down the creative thinker.

If Einstein, Newton, Edison and a few other great minds were labeled ADD or dyslexic, Why do we try to fix the so called learning disabled mind of today. We try to fix what may not be broken. Instead of learning about how great mind work, it must be more logical and profitable to shut down that mind. We try to educate every one to be at the same level. But at what cost. I think we lose something in a wheel of mediocrity. We make every one condition to think the same way. But maybe WE want everyone to think the same way. Its easier to use marketing techniques to condition those who think alike. I might be rambling now. But I don't see any other logic.

I see a bottom line of money to be made, drugs and therapy to be sold, and another cog in the wheel to be conditioned as a testimonial marketing agent for the process to start all over again.

When every one is conditioned to thinks the same way, it does not leave much room for change.

I see you mistake the secondary influence as the primary cause. The primary influence why people want to fix the non-conformists is not for profit... it's out of love and protectiveness of the child. Parents want to protect their children, and want them to be normal. Being normal is protection in itself. By not standing out against the crowd, the child has an easier path to social acceptance, and therefore happiness. This primary behavior and influence, a parent's instinct and desire to protect their child and make their life easier, is then predacated on by those hawking the drugs and the therapies and what not. Keep in mind, not all the hucksters are doing so just to make a buck. Some at least believe that they are helping out children to live better, happier lives. (Which again derives out of the protective instincts of parenting.) ---StarPilot

Number two. Food Food every where.

I have more food that grows wild in my back yard then I could ever eat. That's if I ever would eat it. That's if any one would ever eat it. We as humans are conditioned to pay lots of money to cut our lawns, and kill our edible weeds. Then we drive to the grocery store to buy something that was grown half way around the world, where DDT and other pesticide restrictions do not exist. Where is the logic in any of this. How is it that the humane condition can be so removed from food. You may laugh at me, but I work for the Department of Humane Services, and WE give OUR money away to support this MediaHypedMarketingSytem.

I am not saying that the poor should eat weeds. There is a diversity of food every where, but not a drop of it in expensive manicured lawns. WE are conditioned to pay for our grass and the poor.

You are overlooking a few factors

Room to grow food - the average urbanite doesn't have the room to grow their own food. Many suburbanite do not have the land available to grow a sufficent variety of food.
Work - It requires a lot of work to look after a garden or a few fields. That time spent working is time away from other things. Like a salaried job that lets you buy food, and still leave enough to pay for rent/mortgage and buy you and your family a few toys.

Just thought these points needed pointing out. ---StarPilot

Number three. The liberal media paradox

The media has been criticized for being liberal. I disagree. The media has to be run by a board of directors who are conservative. Here is the logic. Commercials. You will hear liberals complain about commercials, and conservative complain about the shows. Who pays for the shows? HAH. I will agree that the media has a liberal front end. But the back end is not. The front end people do the selling. They are good at that job. The back end people make the decisions about making money. They are good at doing that job as well as being covered by the front end. Commercials are geared at selling to any one. Children and to the lower income group are the larger market of TV watchers. Violence is another key point. If TV is so liberal, why violence? If you know you are marketing to a group of consumers who spend money like kids and lower income people, then the logic would follow that the board must be conservative.

Thus the basis for the liberal/conservative paradox. The logic works. And WE as humans are all taken for a joy ride.