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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Evolutionarily Superior OR Not an Emergency?

Today the President of the United States, is "preparing" to sign the stimulus bill. For the past two months, we have heard about the rush to get this bill on the President's desk to sign it. We are embarking on "economic turmoil that we've never seen since the great depression" and "discussing the bill was leading the desire for the perfect to superceed the desire for the immediacy and necessary."

Has anyone in the media asked the president the question that I'm begging to know: if it's necessary and it's immediacy is imperative, then why was a bill passed on Saturday still not signed as of 3:00pm EST on Tuesday? If it's so immediate and the times are so bad, then why is the president "preparing to sign the bill and talking to reporters" instead of "talking to reporters about the bill he signed this morning?"

Do you all get the difference and the importance to humanity?

Immediacy and necessity drive normal human beings to do something quickly and irrationally and have time to think through the consequences and costs after it is already done. It is in human nature to be in a hurry and be irrational in the face of an emergency. Whether it's driving 90 MPH on our way to the emergency room with an injured child, generals still firing bullets when rockets are whizzing by their heads instead of retreating, or jerking the wheel on the road when imminent danger is awaiting us up the road instead of slowly breaking or swirving. That's what the rest of us do in life, but not our esteemed president.

There are only two explanations possible for this phenomenon: either he is evolutionarily superior to the rest of us or it's not truly an emergency and the bill is not immediately necessary. His coolness superceeds human nature and he is so clutch that he stares immediacy and the end of the financial world in the face, and he deliberates.

We all thought Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods were the greatest clutch performers in history, but they have been surpassed by Obama. If Michael Jordan was as superior as Obama, he would hit those game winning shots 0.7 seconds AFTER the game ends. If Tiger Woods was so great, he would hit the 50 foot put on the 18th green at Augusta the day after the tournament ended.

We are dealing with a new type of human here. Let's all just sit back and be amazed. Evolutionary Superiority or Level of Emergency will dictate whether or not the amazement you choose will be positive or negative.

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