It is warm.

It is warm. Like, man... so warm. I'm here wearing a shirt and earlier also a jacket and I was thinking all like, 'whoa... so warm, I wish there was some kind of breeze'.

Alas, its probably just going to get hotter from now on. I hate it when its hot, everyone walks around with nothing on and I end up feeling like a fat sack of crap, and then my hair gets all hot and I have to make the heart-breaking decision of whether to cut it. Sometimes I wish it would just stay cold, like, not the level of cold where being outside physically makes you cry with pain, but y'know, coolcold.

AND ANOTHER THING! How about this American election process, eh? It just keeps on going. Like, it just keeps on fucking going. Everytime it looks like its finally going to fucking stop it just keeps on fucking going. And like any event that involves more than one American talking for any length of time, eventually some pretty retarded things get said.

The latest retarding thing is Hillary Clinton and co. trying to label Barack Obama as an 'élitist'. Hillary Clinton, a woman descended from more than one of the people present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, is trying to label Barack Obama, a man who has lived in countries with annual incomes smaller than cost of certain dinner parties Clinton has attended, Barack Obama, a child of a single mother who spent most of his time in the USA living off of food stamps.

Of course, in this context, 'élitist' doesn't mean what any dictionary-owning person would assume it would mean, in this context, 'élitist' means 'smart' - the most dreaded quality for an American politician. Hillary Clinton is basically appealing to anti-Intellectualism, over her campaign she's transitioned from being Ms. Know-It-All Washinton Bigshot, to 'an Average Joe', or rather, to what the contemptuous political élites, (I'm talking about real élites here), believe the Average Joe to be, ignorant and bigoted.

Anti-Intellectualism isn't just stupid and misinformed - its dangerous. When people casually and contemptuously disregard the opinions of people who have spent decades considering a particular issue, and instead chose to 'follow their hearts', then what you are basically seeing is the first throes of a dying civilisation. For instance, Hillary Clinton recently proposed that fuel taxes shouldn't apply during the summer holiday-period, economists everywhere said that that was populist and foolhardy, Clinton then responded that she didn't need to listen to economists - not even on *ahem* ECONOMIC issues!! And then you have parents who believe that they are more qualified to teach their kids science than scientists, to teach them about sex than sexperts, to fly them in aeroplanes than aeroplane pilots...

Okay, the last one is an exaggeration, but you get the idea. When people take offence to being told they are not experts, and instead believe that they are entitled to make important decisions based solely on the flimsiest of pretexts, then things are almost certainly going to go wrong. Now before I'm accused of anti-Americanism, I want to stress that anti-Intellectualism isn't purely an American disease, although it definitely is more pronounced on their side of the Atlantic, possibly because during the 16th-17th Centuries, Europeans fought in defence of reason and rationality against superstitious, irrational and arbitrary governments - whereas Americans fought in defence of superstition and irrationality against 'Enlightened' European governments.

Anti-Intellectualism is in our country too. When people commit themselves to eating organic food because they have no confidence in the ability of the scientists involved in the production of 'non-organic food' (he said oxymoronically) not to inadvertantly poison them, then they are showing contempt towards science, rationality and the whole basis of human civilisation. Does it not occur to these people that a chemical produced in a lab, and subjected to decades of evaluations and tests is less likely to be harmful to a human being than an ingredient plucked straight from nature, (nature, after all, doesn't exist in order to satisfy the nutritional demands of man - if anything, nature exists in order to kill man and assure that his nutrients are absorbed into the soil and gobbled up by those bastard plants).

But the worst thing about anti-Intellectualism is that it denies people oppurtunies. A society that values expertise inspires people to achieve, whereas a society that devalues expertise inspires people to keep their mouths and their minds shut in order to conform. In all societies, there are intellectual disparities, some people are smarter than others, if the smart excel then the less smart may feel inferior, and that's bad, but if the smart are compelled by their societies to dismiss expertise and conform with the anti-Intellectual consensus, then everybody loses out as new technologies, new medical cures and new modes of social organisation remain uninvented.