COMEDIANS SAY THE_______EST THINGS.

I recently read a quote from George Carlin (Yes the now-that-I've got-your-attention Carlin) which I now cannot find, so I won't say it as comically, but the gist of it is:

"People who say, 'I don't care what people think!" care a great deal about 'what people think;' maybe more than most people."

Comedians certainly think a great deal about what others think--or they would not be comedians, actors, and so on.  Even good old Sam Beckett thought a great deal about his audience, especially in his best known work; very much designed to get a specific response from a certain group of people--leaders of the people, in fact.

Science cares a very great deal about "what will people think"--and goes nowhere unless and until the broader culture has already gotten there first.  The little story of the Turkish astronomer and the Little Prince's asteroid says this almost perfectly, in miniature of course.

("It's only a model...")

The amount of inner turmoil experienced by those who protest that, "I don't care what people think," is first of all immeasurable, and second of all can be presumed to be immense.  "By their fruits you shall know them."  Jesus too thought a great deal about what people thought; and think today; not about His reputation, which is another matter entirely--that had already been ruined by the time He got to the Cross. The difference between Him and us is that we are almost exclusively concerned about ourselves, and His concern is in every way bent towards our benefit--our real and lasting benefit, as opposed to our view of making sure we are heard loud and clear, but especdially loudly--and making sure that we "sell well," on the scales of human measures; having just enough God Jargon to advance our own causes and justify our existence and our trespasses against mankind, God, and many individuals. Anyone care to define, "spiritual" as the world uses it today? It is almost an ad jingle at times.

Once again, I do not excuse myself from the category of the ordinary human response to the Darwinian aspects of life--where I balk is I don't believe that macrevolution even begins to be a theory of everything, whether purely scintifically speaking, or metaphysically, the latter being a field wherein most scientists are not prepared to give an answer or even to formulate the right questions. I would also disclaim that the present is the key to the past--how would you prove that?  That's an assumption, not even a theory, since a theory is something that is at least potentially  falsifiable. There's where it is possible to agree with the "extreme sport" Darwinists who say that Darwinism is not a theory--no and it never was; it is a cultural assumption caused by or at least concurrent with the Industrial Revolution. So in fact it is a political "fact" taken by faith and yes, wish fulfillment. It has been around since before the Greeks; but our present production-obsessed society now demands it and Presto, It Is A Fact!  (In the context of its own jelly of course...)