Tonight I am at Malden on Hudson, in New York state. In the morning I’ll drive up to Amsterdam New York outside Albany to deliver the load that I have and then I’ll drive home for the weekend. I’m looking forward to spending time with the wife and family again. It’ll be a shorter visit then some this weekend will but it’ll be worth it.
I’d like you to ponder something today with me, something that I have been considering for some time now. I am convinced that it figures very heavily on matters of philosophy, matters of politics, and for that matter every aspect of human thought. It’s also indicative of our future.
Is there a difference between the brain, and the mind? I’m quite serious about this.
When somebody goes full Goose Bozo on us, we don’t say he’s losing his brain, we say he’s losing his mind. The evidence may abundant that the organ itself may be functioning fully, but that some input or series of inputs has debased it.
The brain is analogous to the computer on your desktop. Meanwhile, the mind is the software, the operating system that runs on that desktop.
Certainly some brains are more powerful than others, just as there are more powerful computers than some others. But the programming in each computer is what really gives it its personality.
Programming is training for the computer. Same thing for the mind.
Problem is, we tend to consider training in only the formal sense. In other words, the day that you walk into the government school as when your training starts. Actually, it starts the moment you come onto the scene and doesn’t stop until you stop breathing.
With all this in mind, consider the link that Billy Beck posted the other day.
“You have to look at it from every child’s point of view that was raised in the hood,” said Harris. “You have to understand… how he gonna get his money to have clothes to go to school? You have to look at it from his point-of-view.”
Notice, please, that nobody seems to be asking why we have to even consider his being a thief, from his point of view. And clearly we are dealing with a distorted sense of right and wrong.
But how did the programming inside this computer get this fouled up?
And for that matter, who trained the one who programmed the kid?
At all points we are talking about a complete lack of moral values….probably, generations of it. In this case, both a kid and the mother both had brains, but they didn’t have Minds.
This is what our culture finds itself up against.
We have an entire subculture that believes as this mother does, that the kid was doing nothing wrong. Because, obviously, nobody’s ever taught her otherwise. Nobody’s ever trained her otherwise. Or to extend the metaphor, nobody’s ever program those values into her.
As I say, this has been Generations in the making, and we’ve let it happen because we were open-minded to the point of not standing for anything, including the values that this nation was founded on. Indeed, our very own government has been enforcing an amorality on us.
Now perhaps we can more clearly see why Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the following that they do.
I’ve been saying it for years now. Tolerating everything means you stand for nothing. So it comes down to, what do we stand for? What do you stand for?
And down the road I go home. I’ll see you Monday.
