Call me Pollyanna...

These are my thoughts on the issue, and, as you will see, they are firmly rooted in hard science.

The characters below translate as "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness". This is my political philosophy.







A Chinese proverb - 'Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.' Used by Adlai Stevenson (1900-65), praising Eleanor Roosevelt in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1962 - 'She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.'
(http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/207500.html)

The Govermentium new item has been floating around for at least 18 years (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmentium) which suggests an interesting hypothesis...

Ladies and Germs, I postulate the existence of a new subatomic particle, invisible to the human eye. Like a black hole that is only known by the existence of a nearby binary star, the moron-at-large (or moron-without-portfolio) is only known to exist by virtue of the existence of Governmentium. After all, Governmentium could not exist were it not continuously enabled by the inertia of the morons-at-large. We know that Governmentum is inert and cannot sustain activity as a solo effort.

As Darwin would suggest, we should not expect this complex reaction to change anytime soon, for the evolutionary processes that would permit morons-at-large to develop the sort of collective intelligence necessary to act cooperatively to change the course of Governmentium processes would require eons of evolutionary activity ...

And what is that I hear? Bring it home, Christy?!! Ok... the kicker is, that scientists have discovered that a widely available catalyst is highly effective in increasing the activity of moron-at-large particles: HEAT. And what heat source might the morons-at large use to instigate this collective intelligence attribute? The candle.

Thank you and goodnight. <>