Why do so many people - at the highest level of government and the arts - lack even a modicum of common sense? Is it the educational system (it must be)??
If our educational system were at fault, then the problem would be limited to our country and time in history, wouldn’t it? We are really dealing with the mystery of humans. And we have to kind of marvel that our species has managed to survive this long, at least as a series of groups. Don’t you kind of suspect, at this point in human history, the last words uttered on this planet by a human will be those of a scientist - “Oops.” Probably at the same moment, a bill which would have accidentally doubled the deficit will be appearing on someone’s computer in Washington — while someone else is driving the wrong way down the ramp onto an interstate while chatting on a cellphone about his latest published article detailing his genetic modification of the bird flu (research paid for by a NSF grant, of course). The rest of us, meanwhile, will probably be at our desks, working, or off mowing the lawn, or attending a parent-teacher meeting and basically making our common sense version of the world go round until that little “Oops” is uttered and the lights go out. (The preceding lines meant as humor to lighten things up a little after the Obamacare decision.)