This is my ode to those who hate learning. This is my ode to those who complain when they have to read Shakespeare and moan when they have to balance a chemical equation. This is my ode to those who ask when they have will have to factor polynomial equations or understand Newton’s laws of motion in “real life.” This is my ode to those who hate math and physics. I would greatly appreciate it if you never used a bridge, watched television, or listened to the radio again if you aren’t going to appreciate the careful math and physics that went into their respective creations.
This is my ode to those who deem biology an elaborate scheme of nomenclature. This is my ode to those who think understanding the workings of photosynthesis is a waste of time. Next time you are seriously sick and need medical attention, I would appreciate it if you called your local shaman instead of the respective biologists and chemists that you will be relying on to save your life.
This is my ode to those who have put down a Dickens’ novel because it was “too hard to read.” This is my ode to those who have refused to watch a Charlie Chaplin film because it was silent. This is my ode to those who have never enjoyed a Frank Sinatra tune or danced the twist because it was “too old fashioned.” I would appreciate it if you sat and did nothing all day because though science is the means by which we survive, art is the means by which we live and every television show, film, and musical artist around today stands on the shoulders of yesterday’s artistic giants.
This is my ode to those think that ancient history has no impact on their lives. This is my ode to those who don’t realize that the same immigration issues that plague the United States’s political arena today are the same that have plagued our great nation since it’s inception. (This is my ode to those who aren’t sure what the word inception means but just know it as a Christopher Nolan film.) This is my ode to those who don’t realize the significance of Russia annexing the Ukraine because they never cared to learn about the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. (This is my ode to those who don’t even know what that last sentence was referring to.) I would greatly appreciate it if you stopped pretending that you understood what was going on the world when you don’t really understand its foundations.
This is my ode to those who deem philosophy stupid. (In that, you have actually just purported a philosophy.) This is my ode to those who think theology is the study of senseless belief. This is my ode to those who don’t realize that most of their ideas about government and property rights come from the likes of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. This is my ode to those who don’t realize the affect that Friedrich Nietzsche has had on their immediate life philosophy. (This is my ode to those who don’t realize that I just used the word ‘affect’ in the wrong way.) This is my ode to those that don’t realize that every important decision they have ever made is grounded in a philosophy. This is my ode to those who think that we shouldn’t think about how we think. (This is my ode to those who think that I just used the word think too many times in the last sentence.) This is my ode to those who think God is a thing of the past. This is my ode to those who hate learning because when you cease to learn you cease to live.
Boston College Student. Wearer of Extra Medium Pants. Lover of the Key of C#m. Collector of Wishing Well Change. Writer of Your Thoughts.
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