Comic From A Hypocrite

Knowing that our old friend Mike Adams has taken a great stride towards the world of intense irony by soliciting a post on his runt of a child website ‘natural news’ about how to not get scammed (if you didn’t get a giggle from that investigate the website yourself and note the supplement store and the non-profit status sitting pretty close to each other) inspired me to go back to his website and find something to show just how overblown the message he’s sending to his, unfortunately, hundreds of readers, is. And unfortunately Mr. Adams does this in the name of thinking for himself, which again, should really mean I should not be surprised by his latest foray into hypocrisy.

But this man and his website is/are an amalgamation of different shades of hyperbole mixed up in a broth of paranoia and misinformation. All the more reason why I should stick this cartoon from his website on here to show you people who haven’t heard of this man, and even those who have and get some kind of kick out of watching crazy people blindly spread their crazy over the internet thinking they’re spreading the truth.

Because truly, going against vaccines, conventional medicine in general, and trying to tell people that if they just did lots of exercise and ate raw foods they would be free from all disease, is a move for the forces of good.

Watch and facepalm ladies and gentlemen, at the gross misunderstanding of how genetic modification both works and would be applied.

And if you think that cartoon’s an exaggeration of his beliefs, you should read the articles, they truly are something to behold, or at least flush down the latrine.

Herbocrisy

Some people just don’t know when they’re winning.

It’s like passing the finish line and carrying on for an extra three laps, although that only really happens when people get drunk on sports day doesn’t it? I believe, however, I do not watch athletic events and have no interest in what really goes on in them so I should probably end this analogy right about… now.

I noticed a poster yesterday that read something along the lines of ‘the government will soon make many herbs illegal. Why? Because they want to classify them under the same restrictions as pharmaceuticals. Stop this now.’

Excuse me but coming from the people who have been chastising people for using pills instead of herbs, insisting that herbs can do it better even though the active ingredient isn’t isolated, this is just a little bit silly.

Do you not want your methods of medicine to be recognised by the government?

Because if you do it needs to be regulated to make sure it’s safe!

Safety is a good thing, designed to stop people from getting ill or dying, but I suppose pain isn’t a big deal to you is it? As long as you can sell herbs as medicine without them being regulated.

Silly, silly, silly.

There is a certain hypocrisy to this, and I hope that the people who made this poster know that it is present because if not, well, the human race has a lot less intelligence than I previously assumed.

I guess that teaches to me to never assume.

Now I’m the hypocrite.

If you’re going to go and preach about how your product is medicine and everyone should be using it, then this should be a victory, if you’re not happy about this, well then by insisting that it not be regulated as a medicine you’re admitting that it shouldn’t be used as medicine, thus backing up on yourself like some sort of drunken cow accidentally wandering into the slaughterhouse.

Be consistent, it helps your argument, it helps your position, this just saps away your credibility in the eyes of the people who don’t believe what you’re preaching.

Like me.

The Irony… It Hurts…

I would like to propose a toast to hypocrites, for fueling the art of face palming for the last few millennia.

Let me first of all say that thanks to wordpress’ dictionary not recognising millennia as a word (nor wordpress or recognising for that matter, and it was only recently that it started recognising the word blog) I had to type out that word five bloody times before I realised that I had the right spelling all along and that the dictionary is just plain retarded, in fact realised is now also falling victim to the accursed red underline that whips every word that isn’t a blatant Americanism.

Anyway, I’m sure I was probably going to say something before I went on that rather spontaneous tangent so let me regain my bearing a second.

Ah yes, so before I leave this tirade of ridiculousness, idiocy and just plain horror of this thing I can barely get away with calling a job let me just share a story with you, a very short, couple of sentences long kind of story but due to the fact that I’ve built it up so much now it should count as something at least along the lines of a story if indeed not a full blown one, which I assure you it is neither long enough nor interesting enough to reach the status of.

Anyway this managerish person who let’s say doesn’t do a lot of managing despite the title turns to me and tells me that she thinks she knows what’s wrong with the country and knowing pretty much what’s coming I brace myself to not try and get offended by the bigotmobile that she so loves driving down the motorway of scapegoats on whenever she has a couple of seconds to float around in her own deluded head.

She says that some time ago she was given a list of all the convicted shoplifters in the area and that they all had polish names, from that information she reached the conclusion that all foreigners are ruining the country increasing crime rates and doing anything she doesn’t like, because obviously those things weren’t there before.

Now the whole ‘they were all foreign, it’s disgraceful thing’ is something I’ve heard a lot from her and so it became a little discussion about how english/white people are just as bad as any other nationality or race, to which she agreed before then coming back with something akin to ‘we shouldn’t let any of them in, they’re ruining this place, we need to sort out all of the problems over here before we sort out any for them’ which not only is a mesh of unrelated statements only joined up by the inherent racism of the motive behind them, but is a very selfish thing to describe.

Why should it not be our duty to help those starving and dying because they cannot afford a living just because it’s a little further away from the largely comfy lifestyle we are used to, is that not inherently ignorant to declare such a thing?

She rounded this off however, very nicely: ‘you know some people just think they’re better than everyone else don’t they?” I did not laugh, I was face palming in my head, it was too ridiculous, and I was amazed that she didn’t notice this hypocrisy herself despite her incompetence.

The irony was so pungent I could almost smell it lingering on the dirty walls of the neglected place and with that I had a thought, something along the lines of, thank God I won’t be here for much longer.

Hypocrisy!

So in the throes of many species’ ecstasy spring has arrived in full force and with it a load of optimistic eco warriors are beginning to arrange something for the upcoming season, the infamous summer.

I have nothing against these people, in fact I would be more than willing to do my part for the earth but it turns out that they’re not.

So sometime in May, in a park very close to where I live many organisations and businesses are gathering to promote a sustainable environment.

But somewhere along the way they must have gotten lost because they seem to have mixed up the words ‘natural’ and ‘sustainable’.

I don’t have to point out to you that given that we are all within the confines of the universe there really isn’t anything that isn’t natural around us, and the lines that people draw for this natural world still include poisons, earthquakes etc. good start.

However, the main problem I have is with the fact that Organic food is being promoted as sustainable under this guise and if there is anything that organic food isn’t it’s sustainable.

There’s no proof that it’s more nutritious for one thing, but what’s more important is that it’s NOT sustainable.

In fact, the reason non-organic food exists is to be sustainable, GM crops and modern farming have the potential to feed many billions of people, whereas organic food alone would struggle to feed the world’s population at its current state, it just doesn’t work.

Never mind the CAM stuff, I know that on my crusade of truth I should really be angry at the complementary medicine booth that’s going to be there but that’s just off topic, it’s got nothing to do with the environment and for the moment, I think I need to take a few deep breaths before I jump on that shit again, but seriously, this is just a case of simple fact checking.

Crops are altered to make them better, why would anyone make a crop worse and then spread it around, that much is common sense.

So, when we’re meant to be promoting a sustainable ecosystem, promoting something inherently unsustainable is just one of those hypocrisies that drives me insane.

I stared at this leaflet for minutes shouting at it in my head, praying that it was some kind of twisted, ironic joke, but sadly not, my area, it seems, just like everywhere else, is littered with ignorance and assumption.

Need I say think for yourself again? No, that’s sort of becoming cliché.

Isn’t that right kitty?