citations

  Getting a straight answer. That is the biggest challenge facing all of us today, in this information age. If you have any doubts about that just google anything, anything at all. With just a few clicks you can provide a "citation" to prove whatever opinion you have a mind to. Trust the science is a popular phrase being thrown around these days. Well yeah, science is all about change isn't it? Sure is, with every new breakthrough, exciting new scientific knowledge that leads us into the future. Then we arrive in the future only to discover that the scientific breakthrough has serious side effects. That's alright though, the next breakthrough will be in figuring out how to negate those side effects. That is accomplished most often by ditching that scientific breakthrough for another one. 

  It isn't only with science that getting a straight answer is difficult. I've been doing some research, that's what we say today when we look stuff up, we're doing our research because that sounds official, on internet, streaming services and cell phone plans. Not one of them just states this is how much it will cost. There are always those things in the fine print like, not including, taxes and fees, early termination charges or changes in service due to demand. You can get "discounts" based on your age, your occupation, by "bundling" with additional services or because your third cousin on your mothers side of the family was in the civil war. The price will vary. How's your credit score, and will you agree to automatic payments deducted from your bank account. You are urged to call a representative that may, or may not speak English, to get your answer. 

  Try asking when life begins. Now there's a topic with thousands of citations to prove whatever idea you may have about that. It's a case of don't trust the science on that one, science can prove you are wrong no matter what you believe. It all depends upon which science you choose. A clump of cells, or is it the beginning of life? Is that seed a flower, or just a seed waiting to become a flower? You won't get a straight answer to any of those questions. It's like defining what is, or isn't a mental illness. It all depends upon who you are asking. Some will say as long as everyone is doing it, or have done it in the past, it's fine, it's normal. and should be celebrated. Well, unless that behavior was beheading you or taking your property. But, even those things were just criminal, not a mental health issue. Read Dusky v United States to get an explanation of that. It will become clear as mud. Yeah, just try to get a straight answer on that one.

  You can not provide a straight answer to anything today without being labeled with some derogatory term. Google pejorative terms and you will be presented with literally pages for reference, that's how plentiful those terms are. And there is one to counter every single statement you may make. Everything from phobias to sociopath. Make any declarative statement! Do that and you are a opinionated, dogmatist, self-righteous know it all! Where are your citations! Whatever they are, they are wrong and I have a citation to prove it. My citation trumps your citation. Hey, it isn't me that says that, I have the citation to prove it.