Has Anyone Noticed?

That Al Gore hasn't been heard of or from, for some time now? There must be a reason for this. Wait a second, I've got to turn the heat up a bit, as it is getting colder by the day. Now, back to Mister Gore. I spent some time surfing (no, not that kind) this weekend, and I was able to come up with some very fascinating information.

My grandchildren have been taught to be close to being professional skeptics when at school. They question virtually everything being taught them, for they believe that school should be a place where you are taught HOW to think, and not WHAT to think. Admittedly, this sometimes causes problems for them, but they have also developed a thicker skin than most when it comes to teachers dominating the class rooms with THEIR versions of what is truth, and what is not.

Mostly, the children, most of them, don't bat an eye when they are fed the liberal pap that passes for a solid education.. Instead, they leave their schools on any given day, indoctrinated into believing just about anything that is told to them. Gone, it seems, are the days of standing upright, and questioning anything that just doesn't make sense.How easy it is to turn a skull full of mush into a predictably correct frame of mind. take for example, the matter of being taught that global warming is upon us, and that man himself, is mostly to blame for that unfortunate circumstance we find ourselves in.

Put aside the matter of polar bear depletion, ozone layer depletion, and glacier depletion on Mount Kilimanjaro, in Africa. As it turns out, man alone is not responsible for all this. In fact, man is quite incapable of destroying this planet, or any other all by himself. And, this is where the fun begins.

First, there is the not so simple matter of developing a sustainable hypothesis, utilizing observable phenomena, and other scientifically derived facts. When constructed, this hypothesis must withstand the tests applied to it, that enable one to safely conclude that the theory, or hypothesis is true. Proponents of the theory, i.e. Al Gore, will then parade their particular version of what they believe to be a truth before a wide eyed public. Opponents, on the other hand, will insist that not enough is known to be that accepting of the theory as being uncontestably factual.

This is where enlightened children come into play.When they are told, for example, that the debate is over, they will protest that there has been no real debate at all. At least not a debate where they were permitted to be partners in the gathering of factual data. Such children who rise defiantly, will assert that testing models are woefully incomplete, taking into account only data recorded for perhaps the last one hundred years, and therefore, scientifically, and geologically incomplete. Children who are trained properly, look at all the facts available, and not just the so-called facts that underscore the tests so necessary to determining the sole truth, the inescapable truth.

Assuming this is being discussed in a science class, a reputable science class, taught by reputable teachers, the students will protest that there is no consensus in science as they are being led to believe. Even the great Einstein himself, the greatest classical physicist the world has known, admitted to making a mistake or two on his quest to discovering a unified field theory. Sure, he may have been wrong about quantum mechanics, but that did not sufficiently tarnish his legacy, nor his value to the public discourse about matters foreign to most of us. To this day he stands alone as a man of his time, a man of significant importance to our eventual understanding of complex cosmological matters.

From the science class, the questioning minds next turn to the civics class, where the minds of the children turn to questions of politics, and to questions of economics. There is a correlation between what is learned(?) in previous classes, and what is learned(?) in succeeding classes. Before you know it, these children possessed of the audicity to merely question that which is being taught, sense an empowerment of the mind. Their minds. The connections, starkly before them, stand out like beacons of light, and they learn in spite of, not at the behest of, teachers who themselves have a vested interest in the outcome of their efforts.

It has been said that theories may never be proven, only disproven. The great man, Einstein, famously apologized to Sir Issac Newton. he did so in a curiously intimate manner saying, as if to himself, "Newton, verzeih mir" [Newton, please forgive me]. This was Einstein's way of apologizing to Newton for having disturbed the classical purity of Newton's theory of gravity His great respect for his hero, Newton, led him to do this in spite of his knowing he had discovered something Newton had not, or could not, have discovered for himself.

The question begs: will Al Gore similarly apologize for foisting upon us his hoax of a theory? Not likely will he do this.Therefore it is for the inquiring minds of the next generations of mini Einsteins to sit in judgement of all theories , good, valid, but especially those theories that serve a unique purpose, such as the discrediting of America's free market system by charlatans such as Mister Gore..It is not that we can not do this ourselves, we should always question motives, and intentions. It is simply that the children have so much more time to do so much more. Would we want it any other way, really?