Small-Brain Pollution
As a source of smoke, fumes, and carbon dioxide, the tiny engine on a lawnmower or weed-whacker is trivial. But there are so many of them, and they are so loosely regulated for emissions or efficiency, that they add up to significant pollution.
California has started to regulate small engines, and now the EPA is beginning to move in the same direction.
What has not yet been addressed is the fact that the same principle applies to brains. Small brains are much less efficient than larger ones, and their emissions range from annoying to downright toxic.
They inflict far more damage on the environment and on society than large, powerful brains doing thousands of times more useful work.
The evidence for these conclusions consists of six and a half years during which the Bush administration and the religious right have teamed up to install a horde of puny intellects in positions once occupied by people with perfectly normal brains. The result is the worst fouling on record of the American political and cultural atmosphere.
A spokesperson for Focus on the Family is rumored to operate a brain of only four neurons that requires six pulls on the starting rope to generate even a silly mistake. Yet somehow this cortical pipsqueak manages to spew out even more noxious fumes than the whole Arkansas legislature, though somewhat less than those of Texas, Kansas, or Kentucky.
Our only hope is that such underdeveloped mechanisms, like those on lawnmowers, will someday be guided around the landscaping by illegal aliens.
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I certainly agree with you. What is really needed is a law that all presidential candidates have a PET scan to see what part of the brain is functioning, or would be, under certain circumstances. For instance, when W is stating that he supports Gonzales, the part of his brain that is functioning is located in the area specific for bodily waste. Or when he is told that another 112 kids are killed in Iraq, the brain area doesn’t register at all. When he says he is the decider, the PET jumps to Cheney
Comment by Dr. Steve — June 12, 2007 @ 8:37 pm