Proverbs 17:28 King James Version: “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”
Or some people like to make the following statement and attribute it to Abraham Lincoln, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” But this runs contrary to human nature because we humans excel in showing the world just how ignorant we are. It is blissful they say.
Canada has a problem in that wolves are killing off the caribou population. Not that the majority of spouter-offers care anything about learning or even the implementation of a few facts in any matter that involves wolves, Dr. Tom Bergerud has essentially dedicated his life to the study of the woodland caribou. It’s no mystery that wolves kill caribou and are the leading culprits in the demise of the northern animal. But don’t go look.
Canada’s problem has reached a point in some places where “people” (I will deliberately avoid using the term scientist) have decided that if the number of wolves in parts of British Columbia isn’t reduced caribou will disappear. This does not set well with the ignorant masses that see wolves as something to fantasize about. According to their brainwashing and propagandizing, if wolves were left alone the woods of British Columbia would be Nirvana.
This becomes evident when one reads the comment section in this article. What is it that H.L. Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Canadian public.”
It isn’t really a matter of whether or not you think that people should kill wolves to protect caribou. The real issue is the lack of any remote understanding and factual knowledge about what is taking place. (Oh give me a break. The ignorance erupts like a volcano out of their comments!) Without ever once taking it upon oneself to do some research and study, it’s much easier to hate on humans. Everything you don’t like is reason to ask for the destruction of humans…..well, so long as it isn’t you…right? Kill them but not me. I’m enlightened….by Walt Disney.
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who once said that he did not fear exposing people to all sides of any issue, provided that he first had the time to teach people how to think and be independent in thought. He then knew that truth would rise to the surface. Brainwashing, coupled with intellectual laziness doesn’t offer that option.
Wolves become an emotional subject here on planet earth. Why? Various reasons but mostly because humans have become programmed to love their dogs (all animals really), even to a fault. Having pet dogs isn’t a problem. Pet dogs that are given priority over human welfare is. You can discover all of the psychological reasons people prefer dogs over humans but in our propagandized indoctrination institutions wolves are our pets and how dare somebody shoot one that is about to kill a fellow human being? Kill the human instead.
So, blinded by the programmed hatred toward other human beings, the wolf becomes a great tool to embellish that hatred. And it is loved.
Ignorance is behind all the emotion. Lazy ignorance foments myths like a balanced nature, and humans kill everything, while never once lifting a finger to discover truth. Truth, they have been taught, is what someone with a paper certificate tells you it is. If you like the sound of it then it must really be truth. You are castigated to think otherwise.
But why bother? Why should I spend the 30 minutes it takes to type this diatribe when few will read it and even fewer will, whether they agree or not, go beyond what they have just read to think independently. We are incapable for the most part. Go back to what you were doing.
