I could take offense.

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If I were wont to take offense.  Large numbers of people take offense about my positions regarding politicians, academics, doctors and others in the medical field, bureaucrats, and the generations of young.  Mind you, they don't disagree with what I am saying is wrong, they simply take offense.  For my part, I very rarely take offense, even... perhaps especially... when it was designed to be offensive.  For one thing, most people are terrible about being offensive.  Read here, I'll show you how it is done.  You rip off the lies, you expose the truth, and you leave no room for wiggle or doubt.  Actually, that isn't being offensive.  That is being helpful.  If I wish to be offensive, I just let someone blithely go on believing what we both know is a lie, a fantasy.  That, my friends, is actually being offensive.

This video discusses problems I have.  Oh, I see them.  Then again, I have a reason for not digging in as deeply, always, perhaps, as I should.  I can't.  I am doing really good to get out of bed here lately.  But I am not sleeping well or rightly enough to really do much.  Everything I did today is backlogged work.  There is a ton more where that comes from.  I can't keep math and science going because I can't stay awake.  I am not good at logic, sometimes I fail terribly.  I simply cannot focus.  And, yet, in the final analysis, reason or excuse, the simple truth is that I fail, often.  But not on the whole of it.

grateful h/t Moonbattery

The world is going down hill fast.  The education system did it's part, but so did parents who simply shoved their children off to unrelated bureaucrats to a system that was created by Ayers and ilk.  Too busy avoiding reality, just trying to push through from birth to death with as little pain and thought as possible, parents and other adults just... quit.

Now, I will debate him on some things.  My grandfather (born in 1899) never did (probably) believe they sent men to the moon.  And, while that seems fair enough given his age, and a ripened strength to not believe just what he was told, and a lifetime of being tricked, truly fair enough.  Further, I have some doubts about the moon landing.  Oh, sure, probably.  But, literally, I wasn't there.  And, no, I don't have to believe because some guy named Buzz or Khrushchev or some government agency says so.  Actually, that has all the hallmarks of what NOT to believe.  Still, on the balance, probably.  I simply refuse to surrender some level of healthy doubt.  So, there is that.  And, I would debate, it is better to doubt, attempt to use evidence, and then defend it.  I hope Bill isn't suggesting we just believe because we are told to do so?  He has points, this isn't the best of them.

I think my bigger point is that... I believe I need to review my own practices first, regarding these things.  Not sure there is a lot I can do about it.  But... it's worth seeing if there is.  After I do my homework in these regards, then I can go looking for the first stone.  Living in a glass house means nothing to masochistic nudists!  :p

Later.