As a real estate broker in Boise, Idaho; I have to shake my head sometimes at what I see in the behavior of my clients and in the industry in general these days. Have you noticed how common sense is no longer common? When did we hit the tipping point and start regressing as humans?
When I was younger I couldn't figure out why so many old people were grumpy. I thought the movie "Grumpy Old Men" was funny. However, next month, I turn 50 and realized that I have already become "grumpy". I realize now that part of it is because I get fed up with people that either forget or choose not to think before they talk.
If you want some logical reasons of why having opposable thumbs is not the saving grace of the human race after all, you should read the book "The Genius Factory - The curious history of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank" by David Plotz. http://www.thegeniusfactory.net/ Here are two reviews from their website:
"An ebullient new contribution to the realm of weird-science nonfiction...perfectly pitched - blithe, smart, skeptical, yet entranced by its subject."
Janet Maslin, New York Times
"The Genius Factory is a riveting account of a truly bizarre episode in American history--Robert Graham's crusade to save the human race. David Plotz has written a superb book about the quest for genius, and, ultimately, family."
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Pointand Blink
Don't you wonder why they pass laws like giving tax breaks to people for having children which in and of themselves don't contribute taxable income back into the system typically for about 18 years? They even reward those on Welfare to have more children instead of fewer kids. I think maybe it is because someone in our political system took the term "joint session" a little too literally and "passed" these laws with "clouded" judgement.
Don't get me wrong, I love kids and my wife and I have three of them. Even my 16 year old son just shakes his head at the human race. When him and I watched the movie "Idiocracy" which is about an average couple today ending up in the future where they appear as geniuses because the human race had degraded so much.
Maybe I am just grumpy and need a vacation? Dealing with the whole housing crisis, the mortgage meltdown, short sales, etc. is causing me to have my own Meltdown. The only conclusion I can come up with is. . .
If God was a betting man, he would probably call his stock broker and tell him to pull up his "human account" and "sell short".
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