EXCESSES
As strange as it seems, drinking too much water can kill a
person. As reported in Scientific American in 2007: “Earlier this year, a
28-year-old California woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air
water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours
in the ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer
Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called
water intoxication.”
If consuming too much of one of life’s essential intakes can
be deadly, are excesses of other kinds harmful? How about intellectual propensities?
Let’s see.
Too much exuberance for a just cause created the harmful
yapping of “Defund the Police” that threw thousands upon thousands of votes to the
most despicable political candidates our country has ever fielded.
Too much patriotic zeal sanctioned an unwarranted war in the
Middle East that has now metastasized into conflagrations that could spell the
end of humanity.
The excess of religious ideology led to the horrendous deaths of opposing believers and now fills the daily news.
Moreover, the forces of darkness become adept at utilizing the effects of excessive zeal. We can’t imagine for a second that some won’t seek to lure voters by the use of videos of innocent people held in traffic stops from reaching their jobs, families, and emergency care.
When we see a draft-dodging, anti-veteran, mendacious individual
hugging the American flag and then sparking an attack on our nation’s capitol,
we must accept some logic in the assertion of Dr. Samuel Johnson that “Patriotism
is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
The no-regulatory stance on capitalism has allowed the
purchase of the United States Supreme Court justices by a small percentage of
American and foreign individuals.
Some have even posited that an overabundance of study can create a numbing experience something like “educational incapacity.”
What can The Center do? The Center can’t control or change
the minds of the extremists. The Center can support just causes.
The Center gave tacit support and enabled victory in the American
Revolution.
The Center gave tacit support and enabled progress in the
Civil Rights Movement.
The Center gave tacit support and helped end our horrendous
experience in Vietnam.
The Center gave tacit support and helped vote Donald Trump
out of office.
There is still more work to be done.
