MISSENSE

If that title isn't a word, it should be!
I have, for years upon years, felt assaulted, surrounded by nonsense, missense, cacophony. In my time I have railed against it. .But, there proved to be too much of it and I stopped railing. Although, just now, 2 minor radio spots stick in my craw and I think I'll let this post react to them.
The latest was t'other morning. It's a radio spot called Focus on the Family. The speaker/writer/preacher went on about a man who had been abused/neglected by his mother to the point that he did not even know what the word, 'love' meant. Then he grew and married an equally unloving woman. Then he went and got a gun and went to the Book Depository in Dallas and killed Kennedy.
WELL!! We HAD all been wondering how on earth a nice man like Kennedy could get himself killed! No mention of Cuba, no mention of LBJ, no mention of Mafia, no mention of 'lone gunman' conspiracy. NO, no no. It all happened because his mother didn't love him! Blame the female, blame the woman. What a crock. And, this is a syndicated crock! This blather goes all over the USA, infecting the minds of those not old enough to remember, not wise enough to look behind the scenes, too busy with the vicissitudes of life to try and glean the truth of history! No, let's make it simple for these morons, , , The WOMAN did it! My mind fails me in the face of such ludicrousness. I am just a lone voice, he is syndicated to probably millions. What a crazy state of affairs exist. There is no combating our devolution.
I could go on and on about it, and about this next bit, but what's the point really.
The second spot that abraded me, was an interview on Coasttocoastam. Art Bell was speaking with his guest about the possibility of 'life on other planets' and how wonderful it would be to advance to the stars and find, finally, alien intelligence!
What 'on earth' does he think this earth teems with!
We are surrounded at all times by intelligences that are certainly alien to us, although they are not alien to the planet. Is there a a cat owner that does NOT think their cat hosts 'alien intelligence'? I think not. Earth teems with life forms that have existed for millenia beyond our relatively short term stay here. And how do we communicate with them? Well, take the cow, how do we use it's intelligence? Got milk? How about the chicken? Or the wholesale slaughter of turkeys? Do they not have intelligence? The do! I wouldn't want to try and play chess with them, but still. Or the grandfather of all survivors, the cockroach! Come on, folks, get your game on! Go try and commune with a cockroach! Heaven knows they aren't all that edible, which is the main thing we long for in 'alien intelligence'.
Again, I could go on and on about the 'intelligences' right here on this planet with which we cannot seem to communicate, lobsters, crabs, pigs, bunnies etc. so why the hurry to find them on other planets? To eat them, or put them to work for us as we do the other species? Yeah.
Anyway, that's my rant, and you're welcome to it.