Bake Until Well Done

The speed of life these days is becoming dangerous. We in the lesser bustle of rural Texas tend not to give it much attention. But five dollar gas and woke shaming lunacies are changing that. Our families and our nation’s culture of freedom and independence are now at peril. As our leaders and media struggle to define what matters or is true or relevant, the simple declaratives of daily life are descending into a growing cloud of obfuscation. We all need to stop for a moment and consider where we are going with some help from remembering where we have been.

If we got this far on our own, do we really need a government truth czar to save us from misinformation? If American independent researchers gave us aspirin and antibiotics, and the polio vaccine, along with advances in care for our aging hearts, lungs and other organs, do we need politicians to take over for them? If we chose our leaders while tuned to a medium of hundreds if not thousands of newspapers, magazines and daily TV and radio news reports, do we need a few DC hot heads to save us from “insurrections” that look a lot more like politics as usual than the “peaceful demonstrations” that burned many of our major metropolitan business districts?

Life is simple. Or it used to be. What worked was good. What didn’t was not. We chose, and we learned along the way. We embraced an unknown future with real risks. We were helped by professions that pledged to “first do no harm” and serve our needs and our safety with regularly published guidelines. Medicine, science, public education, universities, and even politics all served us. But now they all want to save us, keep us safe, and to do so by controlling what we do, and say.

Enough! Tell them to keep their grubby hands and filthy minds to themselves. Leave us to keep on making mistakes and learning from them. Leave us to teach our children why a moral life makes sense, even if it seems less fun than the alternative.

There is an awful lot we don’t know about life. Many of life’s magical mysteries are being uncovered day by day, but the more we know the more we are shown what we don’t know. Twenty five years ago, researches discovered that all human cells were derived from one primal cell they designated as an embryonic stem cell. If ever a discovery appeared to simplify things this was it. All life defined by a single “God” cell.

And as you would imagine, researches made various attempts to patent this new discovery. None very successful. How one wonders would they describe it, to say nothing of building another on their own from stuff left over in Steve Jobs’ garage. Life is complex, but living it ought not be. Just add a bit of freedom, courage and responsibility and bake for 30 minutes or until well done.