The boy came over for lunch, blocked our driveway with his car and helped us unload a trunk load of grocery from the DeCA in Moffett Field, CA.
Our conversation lead to our cousin JayJay, who we kids feel is intelligent but foolish in the eyes of Maw. The boy talked about what his former political science teacher, David Gergen (of SJSU and now of CNN) told him:
`Don’t read too much into the meaning behind the words.`
In other words, just take the subject matter as it appears and add no more weight than is necessary. But for the more artistic mind, water is more than some liquid to drink but wet, too! We compared our cousin’s mental state as someone who is `out there` or `wacko` as he described him.
But Maw’s topic shifted to her worldview in which she believes that computers do NOT replace basic conversation skills. And that today’s kids are no match to the elders with normal understanding, which explains why today’s kids are out of control – they have no control and believe everything through the computer.
In my mind, that’s an `Oreo` mentality. In order to get the message across, one must speak simply to the audience: speak like a white person to belong to their group or speak like a black person and belong to their group, too.
Then the brat showed us a YouTube.com video of a VERY black report. He was speaking in his normal Westernized voice outdoors somewhere in the middle of the country and in broad daylight. Then all of a sudden a bug entered his mouth! In a matter of seconds, his true color (or nature, rather) came out: He made all sorts of expletives and in his distinct `black voice`.
So the point is: people will shift their point of views to belong and get whatever they want, whether if it is to stay on the job or in an unhealthy relationship. It’s the professional poker face and how they survive in this world, even if it means turning their backs on the crazies, the poor and the homeless.
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