Even Primitive Farmers Need Grey Matter

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A certain elitist presidential candidate has made some waves in claiming that he— a non-farmer— could teach anyone to be a farmer since it doesn’t require any ‘grey matter’ (brains) to be a farmer, like it does to have a tech job. And farmers go on TV to say how wrong he is when it comes to modern farmers. But no one defends primitive farmers. And they needed brain power too.

Think of the primitive farmer working with crude hand tools. He had no weather satellites to give him advice on the ideal time to plant his crop. If he planted too early, he could lose it all. Too late, and not enough of the crop would be ready for harvest. He didn’t even have a farmer’s almanac or a calendar to go by! He needed to know the signs from nature that winter was really over and it was time to plant. Inexperienced or lazy farmers might not make enough of a crop to feed their family! Which was why young farmers worked with their fathers and grandfathers for years until they built up some experience of their own. 

Livestock farmers also needed brain power. Breeding to the best bull you could get was a good way to improve your herd— but not if your herd got so inbred to that one great bull that they were all half-sisters or cousins and you were getting a lot of undersized young animals because of the inbreeding. Livestock farmers with experience learned how to manage the breeding. They might use a less-than-great unrelated bull in the years after they had used a great bull of their own breeding as herd sire.

The primitive farming job that didn’t require brain power was not that of the farmer, but that of the farm laborer. The farmer would point his laborer at a field and instruct him to plow up the field, or plant barley in it, or hoe the weeds out of the crop, and the laborer would do it. The laborer didn’t need to know when the right time to plow or plant was. That was the farmer’s job. The laborer just did what he was told, and if he wasn’t a man blessed with a lot of brain power, he could still do the job.

Most lower-level modern tech jobs are like that. The boss tells you what to do and you do it. The only brain power you need is for finishing your high school or tech training classes because the boss won’t hire you without them. You often do not need to use your brains for anything, once you get hired, other than to keep your ears apart. 

A modern tech worker does not need much brain power on the job unless he gets a series of promotions and gets to tell other workers what to do. But he thinks he has brain power. He may be dim enough to be taken in by substandard political candidates that promise the moon but can’t deliver without wrecking the economy and losing the tech worker class their jobs, but he has been carefully convinced he is oh-so-smart because he votes for the fellow with the right— or left— letter after their name.

But highly intelligent persons— whether they are ancient farmers or modern computer programmers— are not important to the political process. There are just not enough of them to deliver the votes needed. So politicians must appeal to— or deceive— persons of lesser intelligence, and often do so by pretending those persons are smart. 

The LGBTwhatever Movement vs Your Family

A few years back I read something online that horrified me. A teenage boy who identified as ‘Gay’ told his parents that they needed to leave their Catholic faith, or they would no longer be his parents. How could parents deal with that? Would they make a show of leaving their faith, and sneak off to Confession or Mass when they thought their son would not know? Or would that demand create a long-term barrier to the parent-child relationship?

When the LGBTxyz movement leads its victims to think it’s OK to make threats to withdraw from family relationships to browbeat a family member into changing their religion or politics, they are risking that those victims will be cut off from their families— their emotional support system. But somehow the LGBTxyz folks just keep on doing things like that— because they have more power when individual ‘Gay’ people are socially isolated from those outside the ‘Gay’ community, and are more dependent on ‘Gay’ institutions and the Movement.

As a person with Same-Sex Attraction, I guess I don’t like the LGBT movement enough. Before my birth, it wasn’t the LGBT movement that was in labor for hours to bring me into the world. My mom did that. It wasn’t the LGBT movement that worked for hours and hours daily to earn the money to provide for my needs and wants. My dad did that. When persons with Same-Sex Attraction are faced with hard times or the loss of a love or homelessness or depression, is the LGBT movement going to run to their houses to hold their hands, or are their family members going to do that. 

Of course, families can be imperfect— even actually abusive in some cases. And even non-abusive families can disapprove of a child’s promiscuous ‘Gay’ or straight lifestyle or drug use or alcoholism, and the child involved can get mad about that or disagree or want to get parental and family approval for all of their actions up to and including felonies. But for most of us, its the members of our families that we rely upon for emotional support and practical help in tough situations— even if those family members can’t be persuaded to march in a ‘Pride’ parade for your sake.

But the LGBT movement like other political movements is about power, and your healthy, strong family is a threat to that power. If you spend a lot of your time interacting with your parents and family members, you have less time to directly support LGBT activism by showing up at protests or kicking money in to their organizations. But if you sacrifice your family relationships for the LGBT movement’s sake, there is a void in your life that an impersonal far-off Movement cannot fill.