I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy, but there are some things I just don’t get.
Like, why are there so many TV shows on now with a know-it-all, never fail detective who is also somehow socially retarded. In Perception the hero is a schizophrenic paranoid and he talks to people who aren’t there, in Psych! a pretty good profiler calls himself psychic and puts on a hell of a show, and there are two Sherlock Holmes series set in the present, which disturbs me. Give the guy a different name. Sherlock Holmes belongs in the pre-WWI era.
They are all basically Monk. It’s actually not a bad premise, but the thing I don’t understand is how is it possible to have so many. What is the limit, and why can’t TV land come up with some new ideas?
Another thing I don’t understand is poetry, which may sound weird because I am so obsessed with writing it. But, I read other poet’s poems and I see other poet’s going gaga over still other poet’s poems, and most of the time I just don’t get it. There’s never any rhyme and most of the time I’ve just got no idea what they’re jabbering on about. I’m not saying that poetry is dead, people do need a higher form of communication than text messages and occasional in-person grunts of greeting for the people you meet in real life, but if what everybody else is writing is poetry, I’d like to have a different designation for the stuff I write.
Another one that, like the poetry thing, leaves me feeling stupid, is this Schrodinger’s Cat thing. Very smart people talk about this on the Discovery channel like it’s some kind of a scientific theory with a real time effect on the shape of the universe. So, they must understand something I don’t (which is likely), but I just don’t get it.
The cat is either dead or it isn’t and the fact that we don’t know whether it’s dead or not makes no difference whatsoever. Sure, our perception of the universe depends on our perception of the universe, but the universe itself does not depend on human perception for it’s existence. A tree that falls in the forest when there’s nobody there to hear it may not make a sound, but it still winds up lying there along the ground, providing a breeding ground for insects and fungi, and being an important part of the ecosystem. If a human and a butterfly both look at a flower, they will see vastly different versions of the flower, but the flower doesn’t care. It is a flower.
Until somebody can prove me wrong, I’m going to continue believing that Schrodinger’s Cat is a worthless intellectual game. If anybody can prove me wrong, I’d love to hear about it.
If anybody can answer any of these questions, I’d be glad to hear it.
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