You'll Understand When You're Older? Part 1

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MyLot Exclusive Lucky #13 If I had a nickel for every time I'd been told, "You'll understand when you're older," between 1964 and 1980, I'd have...Well, I don't know exactly how much I'd have but I can tell you, I could quit this lousy job! I can also tell you that the one thing I do understand now, when I'm just about as old as you can get, is the very same thing I understood then. The people who told me that were idiots. And we're still paying for that idiocy...And still supporting it. Case in point, just one of the many examples I could give you, when I asked, "Why do we lock up people for smoking marijuana when it makes no sense?" I was given the stock response and if I pressed the issue, I might get a little more. Such pearls of wisdom as, "It just has to be that way." And the result? Though there has been some progress regarding that particular issue, we are still wasting billions of dollars and ruining millions of lives every year. My point is that if a little kid asks you an important question about an important issue and the only answer you can give is a trite, meaningless cliche, DON'T! Instead, say you'll get back to them and then go study up on the topic and come back with a meaningful, well-informed answer (And even if you come up with the wrong answer, at least later you can say you studied and were well-informed). If you don't, you're part of the problem and the problem will stay with us for decades. I'm not saying that knowledge is a magic cure for everything...But then again, it might be. Anyway, if more people educated themselves about more things, they would make better choices when voting and that's where and how we get things done the fastest. Also, in 40 years, kids won't be referring to you as an idiot in a Blog post. That's my mini-rant for today on this topic and I guess there will be more since we called this one Part One and if there isn't a Part Two, it will rip a hole in the fabric of space and time and every molecule in the Universe will explode at the speed of light. And some of my friends tell me that would be a bad thing.