Sunday, February 15, 2015

as i grew older, i'm consistently amazed at how far-reaching the satire on the simpsons truly was.

that's dr. hibbert, right there. clear as day.

it's easy to ridicule them as backwards savages or whatever, but they've got somewhat of a point. they've been eating this stuff for centuries, but it just appears now? see, there's an answer to that or there isn't; i know records in the region are likely to be scant, but there must be a way to demonstrate that transmitting disease from "bush meat" is not new.

further, there's a history of industry acting like that. example: when the auto industry shut down public transit in detroit and toronto so that people would have to buy cars. and oil. you'd have to expect industry to try and demonize the black market any way it can. waving your hands at it doesn't negate the fundamental truth.

worse, we bloody well know that whites have done some pretty terrible things regarding vaccines and viruses, much of it aimed at blacks. every once in a while, you continue to hear stories about how involuntary sterilization still happens throughout the united states and also in western canada. that's just a surface observation on a global eugenics system that can get - and has gotten - downright gruesome.

so, it's one thing to point out that they're jumping to conclusions - and it's completely correct to point it out. but, you can't write their suspicions off. every single thing i heard in this video is an entirely plausible hypothesis. and, in the end, we may very well learn that there's a level of truth in some of it.