Have We Lost our Common Sense?

MY SIDE

by Randy

 FROM: May 2, 2016

So, have we all lost our common sense? Now, I don’t say this because I simply don’t agree with something, but in reality when things just don’t add up to a logical mind and something seems to be ‘senseless’, you have to ask the question don’t you? So what is this ‘thing’ that I’m referring to that would make me ask this question? Well first let me take you back to the premise of the fairy tale of the ‘Frog that became a Prince’. You remember, the princess is walking in the garden and comes across a frog who to her utter amazement begins a conversation with her. Well, the jest of the conversation goes something like this, “Um, excuse me princess but if you would just take a moment to give me a kiss then I will become a charming prince. For you see I am really a prince trapped inside this frog body, but just a kiss from you and I will be changed into that charming prince that you’ve been waiting for.” Of course the princess balks at first but after convincingly making his case that ‘he really is a prince inside this frog body’, she relents, kisses him, and wala! The frog changes into the prince he said he was and the princess has her prince charming and they live happily ever after. Now, of course we all know that this is all a fairy tale, at least we used to. Let me explain.

You see it wasn’t long ago that logic (actually fact) took place in the hospital when a baby was born,  smacked on the backside to get its first deep breath, given to the parents with the words, “Congratulations, you have a boy” or “a girl” whatever the case may have been. The parents beaming, would wrap the little one up in a blue or pink blanket and present this ‘new addition’ to the world as their new “baby boy” or “baby girl”. The logic, or fact, that was displayed in the hospital was that this little bundle was in ‘fact’ a boy or girl when it was born according to the standards that have been around as long as there has been a world; specifically, if the baby was born with male genitals then it was ‘A boy!” If the baby was born with female genitals, no surprise, “It’s a girl!” Then in the 1900’s to no one’s surprise, science found the XY chromosome information and the ‘it’s a boy’ and ‘it’s a girl’ was no longer just a visual determination but was now proved scientifically. Wow, common sense proved by a scientific standard, how could anyone doubt that right? Wrong! As we move into 2016 the question of gender is front and central and this is where I have to ask the question, ‘Have we all lost our common sense?” You see, millennia of ‘natural’ wisdom and observance as well as documented science of the present day all point to the ‘fact’ of gender determination. Gender is now, according to the ‘new definition’ of gender being circulated among the populist of the U.S.A. as well as much of industry and business, not based on what you can observe at one’s birth, or what you can prove without a doubt scientifically with DNA gender tests, but rather it is based on what an individual ‘identifies as’. What?? So, you mean to tell me that a person is born a certain gender physically, they can be genetically tested to be that gender and yet they can say they are not and everyone is o.k. with that? It’s like saying that I can go to restricted areas of the national parks because I ‘identify’ as a wolf or a tree or … you name it. If we can’t base it on observation or fact then the sky is the limit. I can once again kill whales because I ‘identify’ as a killer whale! “Don’t be ridiculous, you bigot!” many of you are saying; but in all truthfulness I have to ask you, “who is being ridiculous”? The one who is observing the facts and looking at the truth or the one who wants to live in a fantasy, a modern fairy tale, that say’s that I can ‘identify’ as someone that I am not.

So, to sum up I guess that I can actually answer my own question, “Have we all lost our common sense?” It appears so, at least in most of the government, industrial and business establishments as well as those who see themselves as ‘progressive’ in the society. It is a sad day in America when those with the common sense to see the truth as it is are being called bigots and those who want to live in a fairy tale are being called progressive and compassionate. I can remember years ago, when letting someone who wasn’t a child continue living in the fairy tale of make believe wouldn’t have been esteemed so highly.

Randy