Smaller is Better

Many things are never said yet are understood implicitly. This has long been a high art in our society. While it is easily seen by an unsophisticated, observant member of a minority, this art is so deeply ingrained in the sophisticated majority that the fact that it is so widely practiced can't easily occur to them.

For example, on TV and therefore in what passes for the popular "wisdom" of sophisticates, the saying that "bigger is better" is gospel. This is always expressed with a certain smirk, because, though it is rarely said in so many words, all sophisticates understand that the most popular application of this dictum is to the male sexual organ, and from there one can then go everywhere else. But I, being an inveterate unsophisticate, can never understand why the sophisticates never seem to realize that that principle must mean that females who appreciate such wonders with such fervor are also saying that, through habitual promiscuity, their receptacles have become so badly stretched that something oversized is needed to produce sensations -- a condition that I had thought is highly undesirable, though these ladies would deny with the utmost fierceness that their apparatus is in any such state.

I think that generally the opposite is true. Smaller is better.

I could give numerous examples, each one worthy of a post by itself. For today I would just like to mention big farmers and their subsidies in connection with big populations -- one of the most important of subjects because it involves food, and when one gets down to the bare essentials of life -- which is happening all over the planet at this time -- food and water are at the top all by themselves. One can get along for long periods without all the other things that are also considered to be absolutely essential, but it's understood that without food and drinkable water....

Nowadays, with small farmers largely a thing of the past, their properties having been swallowed up by larger fish, too often farmers with big acreages, and non-farmers also with large agricultural lands and both with only monetary profit in mind, are falling all over themselves either to let their fields lay idle or to grow crops to produce fuel, instead of producing badly needed food. These people then use some of their gains to persuade Congress to perpetuate the subsidies that have nothing to do with producing food but instead guarantee profit for the landowners regardless of what they do with their property, up to and including nothing, and therefore they in turn reward the legislators with resources that help guarantee reelection.

It's as if these people are not aware or don't care that there are billions more people around than there used to be -- nearly tripled just in my lifetime, to six and a half billion at last count -- who have been brought forth with the expectation that somewhere on the earth there would always be others who believed in the traditionally noble occupation of farming to produce food, with profit to themselves and to people with mouths and stomachs. However things have worked out that much of the land is being unused or misused only for the profit of a few, while the huge mass of others are left only with recourse to protests, riots, being hungry, and a wonder as to what was up with being brought forth into a world with too much competition for the small amount of food that, for whatever reasons, that world had to offer.