For The Blank Page

Obscure white crippled ball, what do you have for me ?  The possibilities infinite but the truth far less.  I unfold it, nothing.  Turn it over, nothing again.  I smooth out the creased material.  The blank page was once alive, now wasted.  With neither word nor image you are but conveniently arranged cellulose pulp.  Your possibilities cut short by a narrow mind, your legacy aborted.  Where nothing exists, there is potential.  Potential for something of the utmost value and substance to the most trivial of trife.  What means nothing to one could mean everything to another.  A page may endure when neither thoughts nor memories can.  It may pass a thousand hands without recognition, but even then it is still there, still possible, waiting.  It deserves a mark, a purpose, a chance to be great, even if only for a second.  Denial of potential is the only true waste.

So this morning, picking up the best Sunday takeaway breakfast the average man could hope for (well for under $10 anyway) i was distracted by today’s edition of the Sunday Mail.  Not usually one to buy a newspaper in its physical form on account of anyone that spends enough time on the net shouldn’t need to support the wastage of paper that is the daily newspaper.  So back to the point, this is the front page headline that ensured i would buy the paper out of disbelief more than anything else “Primary school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together”.

As i read the article it continues to explain that some of the religious instructors in Queensland’s primary schools have informed children that dinosaurs existed in the same era as man.  That Noah collected the dinosaur eggs for the ark (which doesn’t explain why the are currently extinct?).  That Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under some form of protective spell (possibly similar to the one that protected snow while she was sleeping i guess ?).  Best of all, there is fossil evidence that proves it all.

Now don’t misunderstand my position on the RI program in primary schools.  I think religion is something that everyone should understand at least a little about, considering approximately 85% of the worlds current population has some form of belief system.  Part of my own understanding of Christian beliefs and the bible originated in primary school religious education classes.  It appears that the problem with these specific religious instructors is that these classes are not being used to offer information on religion but instead to prey on a child’s imagination with ridiculous disinformation tactics that make me wonder if they have even read the bible, not to mention a single piece of empirical data on the subjects they are attempting to teach.

Without further ranting on how such religious disinformation impedes the progression of our society i will say that toward the end of the article i did have to smile with a spark of optimism when i read this testimonial.

A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.

"The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve," he said.

"’My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that ‘wouldn’t they all be inbred’?

"But the teacher replied that DNA wasn’t invented then."

After the parent complained, the girl spent the rest of the year’s classes in the library.

Little girl i place all my hopes for your generation with you.

Now all of this could be in my head, i hope it is, but is the number of smart women diminishing?  I find myself unintentionally meeting alot of women of late but dismissing all of them just as quickly.  I am not an arrogant person but when i am forced to keep a conversation going by talking like she is a child so she can understand me, i find it intolerable.  Now i don’t expect anyone to be brushing up on Steven Hawking’s theory on the universe in their spare time, although it would be interesting.  So agree with me, argue with me, hate me if you must.  Any of the above would be preferable to those big round eyes of incomprehension.

I will use a recent experience in an attempt to explain my situation

Boy meets Girl.

Boy is attracted to girl and girl to boy.

Girl explains that she dosn’t read anything much because thinking makes her head hurt.

Boy loses respect and attraction for girl.

The End

Note ? This is one of the harsher examples.

The question is, why is it becoming socially acceptable for so many women to foster the ditsy cheerleader clich?, or perhaps i should say preferable?  Is there some impression that the type of guy you are looking for is looking for these things in a woman?  Perhaps this is somewhat egocentric but could it be that the long standing male insecurity and need for dominance is forcing women to ?water down? their mental assets in order to get the men they want ?

I do fully understand that the average guy would be only too happy to find a gorgeous woman with minimal intelligence and easily exploited self esteem issues.  Instead i find my attention hanging by the last thread of physical attraction.  Easy to impress, easy to get what you want, maybe too easy…  I feel disadvantaged by wanting more from a woman than these simple superficial things, things which quickly grow boring.

Why?  Because practically any girl can put on some makeup and a nice dress in order to catch someone’s eye, but catching someone?s mind, leaving an impression, that is a different matter.  There is no makeup to be applied to a personality, it is the only true thing about a person.  So show me something new, teach me something, be proud of what you know and you will leave a memory that is worth remembering.

A message to the few women with the uncompromising fortitude that i find so attractive, you know who you are.  Thank you, you make it all worth while, don’t stop being who you are.