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In reply to the discussion: My Mother is Very Religious, and I Am Not [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I hear so much incredibly stupid stuff I could easily spend my entire time arguing with morans and getting absolutely nowhere, even the weather is a political minefield for discussion these days. The urge to argue with people spouting incredibly ignorant crap is one I have to fight a lot and it's by no means limited to religion, religion just happens to be one in a long list of things I have trouble relating to in our culture.
The piece by Ventura was pointing out that if you view things as an alien who just dropped in there are a great many things in our culture that don't make rational sense. Why does the land that celebrates being "the land of the free" have the highest incarceration rate on the planet? And on and on and on.
Trying to be a rational person in our culture is an exercise in self control because so much of it is head trauma level irrational, some people take those observations of cultural irrationality and turn them into humor, George Carlin and Chris Rock are two good examples. I have that talent only to a slight degree unfortunately.