Big Dope is still sleeping so I take these moments to share
a few thoughts that I plan to include in my next report to the Falloonian
Elders. They don’t think I have been paying enough attention to your politics,
so I have been slipping away and watching the legislature in Big Dope’s home
state. I find the process bewildering or perplexing to the point of making me
unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding. (Editor’s
note: He means “confusing.”
The most interesting escapades I observed involve what I am
calling in my report as “Bigotry Support Laws.” These seemed to be proposed for the
purpose of legitimizing bigotry against outsiders whom the sponsor of the legislation
doesn’t trust. There also seems to be a fear of changing conditions in your
sociological evolution to which the sponsor is unable to adjust. Myself, I find
these changes and trends one of the few positive indicators within the behavior
order of your species. But then I am not a legislator.
The sponsors of such bills often seem to be in what Big Dope
humorously refers to as “panic mode” as if the changes, such as the acceptance
of a loving relationship between members of the same sex, would threaten the
sponsor’s own safety.
Now, none of this is new. My study of the history of your
species tells me that bigotry has been a dominant feature of your behavior
patterns for ages.
Therein lies the irony of this current behavior.
Oddly, the supporters of Bigotry Support laws (I’ll just
call them BS laws for short) feel that the chances for passage improve to the extent
that they are presented as supporting what you call “religious freedom.”
How idiotic, if you don’t mind my saying so.
These BS laws are, to one familiar with the nature of our
galaxy, a direct result of over four billion years of what you call "evolution."
Consider the distrust of strangers. It is obviously a remnant of the ancient impulse
of your developing species to band together in tribes for mutual protection.
The fear? The individual organism on the ancient savannah
who wasn’t stressed and kept alert by constant fear of predators would be the
first one eaten. Fear is a prime motivator for your behavior, and when it doesn’t
exist, you can develop BS legislation to support it as an artificial motivator..
And the panic exhibit by BS legislators is nothing more than
the old “flight or fight” syndrome writ large.
So, the passage of BS legislation certainly doesn’t derive
from your literary figure who said, “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for
one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” Oh no, BS legislation
could not be further in intent than that.
It more closely matches, I believe and shall report
accordingly, the words of the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson who spoke of “Nature,
red in tooth and claw.”
I would hope that you will eventually realize that bigotry can take you to dark places to where you should not return. - C.W. |
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