When I was a small boy, there used to be a man who would occasionally walk up to a bunch of kids and
jabber on incoherently about subjects that always left us bewildered and afraid that his spittle-firing
rants had something to with being ass-raped.
With dog-eared pieces of paper in hand, this forty-something year-old would wander the streets looking
for someone who wouldn't just shoo him away -as in adults, and attempt to seek out those were willing
to listen to his breathless blather.
The man's behaviour usually stopped when his heavy-set mother used to appear and order him to get
home. After apologising for his wild conduct, she would amble off with the man offering his scribbles
and trying to explain what fascinated him.
Of course, like any group of kids, theories of why this strange man acted the way he did, were many.
Some say he was part of a secret experiment that went wrong and others preferred the idea that he'd
been electrocuted as a child and that was why he behaved so oddly.
The favourite theory assumption was that he was a brilliant scientist that was tipped over the edge of
sanity by discovering some esoteric cypher (we didn't use these words!) that revealed something so
profound, the human mind just couldn't handle it.
The reason for the above story and the theory of 'Flat Earth'...? it isn't that this simpleton once told of
this concept, it's to show that in past times, idiots were rarely listened to and scarcely ever taken
seriously.
The supposition of the Flat Earthers is the same as this guy's rantings, it's just that the babbling dolt
didn't have the internet to display his lunatic beliefs. There was a time when we believed the sun used
to die every night and shaman's can call down the lightning... let's not go back to that ignorance again,
huh?
jabber on incoherently about subjects that always left us bewildered and afraid that his spittle-firing
rants had something to with being ass-raped.
With dog-eared pieces of paper in hand, this forty-something year-old would wander the streets looking
for someone who wouldn't just shoo him away -as in adults, and attempt to seek out those were willing
to listen to his breathless blather.
The man's behaviour usually stopped when his heavy-set mother used to appear and order him to get
home. After apologising for his wild conduct, she would amble off with the man offering his scribbles
and trying to explain what fascinated him.
Of course, like any group of kids, theories of why this strange man acted the way he did, were many.
Some say he was part of a secret experiment that went wrong and others preferred the idea that he'd
been electrocuted as a child and that was why he behaved so oddly.
The favourite theory assumption was that he was a brilliant scientist that was tipped over the edge of
sanity by discovering some esoteric cypher (we didn't use these words!) that revealed something so
profound, the human mind just couldn't handle it.
The reason for the above story and the theory of 'Flat Earth'...? it isn't that this simpleton once told of
this concept, it's to show that in past times, idiots were rarely listened to and scarcely ever taken
seriously.
The supposition of the Flat Earthers is the same as this guy's rantings, it's just that the babbling dolt
didn't have the internet to display his lunatic beliefs. There was a time when we believed the sun used
to die every night and shaman's can call down the lightning... let's not go back to that ignorance again,
huh?
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.