Plain Talk and Common Sense

I was having lunch with my boss today and the conversation somehow was steered into the direction of foreign affairs, which is weird because I could have sworn that we were talking about Anderson Cooper. He's an interior designer and he was sitting there blabbing about how China has nuclear capabilities and that the only way for America to win the upcoming war, we'd have to establish diplomatic relations with the countries that surround China. He went on to say that there was a big plan for China to shoot down two American satellites to disable all of America's technological capabilities. The sad thing is that he really believed everything he was telling me.

I don't claim to know a lot about the world, but at least I don't go around thinking that I'm some sort of political analyst that knows all the answers just because I saw five minutes of CNN. I stick to things that I know, like episodes of Three's Company or the difference between a weave and an extension. I'd feel more comfortable talking with people if they just said whatever was on their mind, instead of thinking that they have to talk big and about what they think are important issues in the world. Ultimately, how is it going to affect my mood as I eat a burrito?

To balance the discussion, I decided to have a little fun and I introduced the idea that all of this information could be someone's way of manipulating things to turn out the way they want. I stroked the conspiracy theory like a teacher's aid earning extra credit. It wasn't all a bunch of hullabaloo, because I do like to think about situations from all angles. I often wonder if we're all just some alien kid's science experiment and we're sitting on an intergalactic classroom shelf somewhere being observed by enormous beings.