My Understanding

There are people who know down to the melecular patterns why one type of food gives you more gas than another. I am content with my understanding that beans are a magical fruit and make you toot. Broccoli does much the same, unless it’s cooked.

My understanding is usually fact based, I grew up with facts, theories, and beliefs. The difference being facts are what you know, theories are what you use when pieces of fact are missing and you need an understanding of something to work on it, and beliefs are what you choose to include in your life so long as it doesn’t interfere with facts, theories, or progress.

Today we have a lot of people who are using their beliefs to try to shape the facts. That is a dangerous kind of backward thinking in my mind. When did Americans decide that facts no longer matter? Where was I? Was I so busy writing stories, educating children, living my life that I missed an entire shift from reason to nonsense?

As a society we need to separate reality from fantasy, fiction from nonfiction, and an individuals needs, wants and desires from the facts. I need fact based resources such as news, we need fact based research to make technological progress, and we need fact based justice or we have no justice at all. There is a big difference between TV and movie land and reality. It is time to untangle the mess in our minds.