More paradox

It's not getting easier. There are a lot of things we just have backwards. It's a favorite theme of mine, and I don't have to work hard to find examples or evidence. I was even asked by a good friend if I had perhaps been discussing inverse relationships with March Hare? As I told him: we are in fact well acquainted, but he's got his world, and I'm stuck with this one. Or is it the other way around?

Really, you ask. Yes, really. How about this: an article in the Guardian showed rather clearly that the more conservative an American is, the more likely they are probably willing to say they think President Obama is a Muslim and not American, even though they "know" he's not and he is. There was no correlation to level of education, only to ideology. Paradox? I think so. Or, who's the biggest exporter of cars in the US? Right, BMW ... who else would it be? Or which car built in the US is the most "American" car (that is containing the highest number of American-made parts)? Of course, Toyota. All of this is so obvious, I don't know why I have to keep saying it.

My point is that not everything we say is what we know, not everything we believe is what we want to believe, and not everything that makes sense is really always sensible. Welcome to life in the modern world. Oh, it's nice to make fun of Mr. Carroll and his Hare. It's nice to think that it was all such a nice children's story ... so entertaining ... so not real. But is it?

It's really something that has been going on for quite some time, but we are also frustrated by the fact that we don't always see that things are getting better. We would like them to, of course, but reality isn't always what we would like it to be. Sometimes, it's just the opposite. In fact, it's really time to start asking yourself, on which side of the mirror you really are.