Some Beings Have a Native Understanding of Newtonian Mechanics, Others Don’t
I’ve been thrown off a horse twice, both after my asking him to canter. The more recent of the two happened when the animal took a few steps, but then halted abruptly and lowered his head, causing me to to fall forward.
Clearly, the horse knew (at some level) Newton’s first law of motion, which states that there must be a net external force for there to be any change in velocity, either a change in magnitude or direction. In other words, if I weren’t able to grab the pommel or the horse’s neck, my body would continue to travel in the direction I was before the horse stopped.
My point here is that the common horse has a native, instinctual understanding of at least some of the laws of physics. That’s more than I can say for the fellow pictured above.
The bar chart below lists the top carbon emitting countries over the last 171 years. The relevance? There is absolutely none, as far as I can see.
When I was working on my MA in philosophy (at my father’s expense), his friends used to kid him, “Hey, Craig. What’s the job market looking like for professional philosophers?”
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A friend sent me this, but it was so preposterous, I immediately looked it up. As I soon learned, he never said this.
The cartoon here makes its point, but I doubt it’s true.
My mom and I talk about this frequently. Apparently, as if I didn’t know. Fox News takes clips of Biden’s speaking out of context, and it really does appear that he’s losing his faculties.
It is said that Big Oil has entered its “Big Tobacco” phase, meaning that it needs to go to ever more obscene lengths to sew doubt into the public’s mind re: the damage its products cause.
I envy people who can press on in life without feeling the weight of living among people who readily accept complete garbage as truth. The problem, of course, is that they vote, and elect people who make the outrageous claims that these gullible fools eat with a fork and spoon.
