Lice

Is intrinsic, unalloyed ignorance justifiable and a forgivable offense?  If someone has not been blessed with a naturally open, inquisitive, expansive mind, is that somehow the ignoramus’s fault?  Can one be blamed for the way they were born or, more precisely, for being granted a Lilliputian intellectual arsenal with which to view and pursuantly attack daily life?  Who knows the correct answers to these questions, chiefly because it is so difficult to discern between authentic natural deficiencies as opposed to cultural adaptations.  Yet I suppose the affirmative is true.  One shouldn’t blame a white man who is only 5’6” in height and jumps like a bloated hippopotamus for underperforming and embarrassing himself in the NBA; you shouldn’t blame a man who has been color-blind since birth for fucking up the wiring in your new house and causing it to burn to the ground; you shouldn’t blame someone who is totally deaf for being a piss-poor musician who can never adequately immerse himself in a classic piece’s rhythm; you shouldn’t blame a man who was born ghastly ugly for not being a woman magnet; you shouldn’t blame a leopard for being born with spots all over its body; and likewise you should never hold a stupid individual entirely responsible for his/her uninformed, reactionary opinions, particularly as those opinions might relate to the political arena.  I’m obviously referring here to those staggeringly fatuous dipshits who vehemently deny global warming even as temperature records continue to tumble on a yearly basis while wildfires consume ever more land throughout the world, refuse to get vaccinated against a deadly virus in the name of some goofy, undefined individual “right” and as a result needlessly exacerbate a once-in-a-century pandemic, support common criminal Donald Trump even as ever more incriminating information comes to light indicting the unscrupulous louse , insist the January 6^th riot was not an insurrection intended to overturn a legally contested election, promulgate the idea of unlimited firearm “rights” so mentally disturbed individuals can run around massacring innocent people, etc., etc., etc.  Yes, THOSE unimaginably dumb bastards!  It ain’t entirely their fault, remember.  For better or worse, these disadvantaged creatures were simply predestined to be born in this manner and that fact will never change, just as the sun will come up tomorrow morning in the east and rivers will continue running to the sea and the Loch Ness Monster will continue to go unsubstantiated.  After all, the more things change…..