Friday, August 17, 2018

it's in the knees

Americans – Our rallying cries are free will, freedom of expression, humor, independence, innovation – not programmed like a robot or something. Put 40,000 of us in a stadium together, play on the public address system most any of the thousands of melodies we know and we will sit there and hopefully enjoy the music, depending on taste. Play one particular melody out of those thousands and everyone, en masse, will stand up and remain so as long as this melody lasts, no matter how pleasingly or poorly it is presented. When the melody quits, they will sit back down. If anyone deviates from this behavior, even if he has performed his duty a hundred times before, he may be remonstrated, shunned and publicly chastised, depending on his station in society.

Sure it's a nutrageous idea but maybe Americans are just mindless automotons. That would explain a lot.