To those who think that they are ‘nuts’ for bothering themselves with assailing the establishment over beers with friends. To the more activist minded who think they may be ‘nuts’ for thinking they could make a dent in the armor of the mammoth military-industrial complex, their political collaborators, and their unwitting cadre of academic foot soldiers.

I am just poking a little fun with a little irony since, however small your protestations may be and however insignificant they may seem to you, you sound eminently sane to me.　 I have the deepest reverence for people who dare look for the truth, who have the willingness and strength to think, and, above all, who dare to say their piece in whatever forum they choose.　

Thinking is an art known only to a very few.　 Peculiarly, I speculate that few philosophers, experts in logic, and even few scientists, truly think.　 They must make a living and must try to get tenure. They study, learn, memorize, analyze constrained by the harnesses of their disciplines, and explore within the confines of the small arenas of their disciplines, but they do not use their imagination as they think; they do not examine their hypotheses, theories, or the conventions of their academic domain. Academic freedom is such a befuddled myth!　 They must submit articles that will be approved by the defense department that awards them grants or academic journal review boards　who check for adherence to the narrowly acceptable research trend du jour or for political correctness. They do not examine their domain from levels of perspectives that outsiders might take.　 They are like the justice system that is so bound by precedent that they cannot incorporate the findings and perspectives of science or the implications of the radically changed contexts and crises of the modern world.　 As such, philosophers, scientists, those in the justice system, and other professionals have no idea how irrelevant they are to the world’s current crises and how utterly absurd and devoid of significance for the non-professional world are the results of the practice of their occupations. They would never in a million years think that the manner in which they are practicing their professions and their disciplines in effect means that they are actually functioning as enablers of those corrupt corporate, military, and political destroyers and exploiters of the rest of the world’s population and the earth.　

In a documentary about Robert Oppenheimer, he is confronted by an FBI interrogator who questions him because Oppenheimer had loosely associated with an anti nuclear bomb organization. Horrors!　 Oppenheimer was virtually speechless listening to the babbling ethical madness of the super patriot FBI man. 　That was during the McCarthy era.　 Remember "Good Night and Good Luck" (2005 with George Clooney and David Strathhaim) and "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991 with Robert DeNiro).　 Do we watch but not ‘see’? Do we go to such things to be titillated and leave our minds and hearts at home? Do we walk out and merely share our yeahs and boos with our companions?

The movie industry falls in the category of "they know not what they do" to quote Jesus’ last words. They join with the philosophers, scientists, and academics and professionals of all stripes as lemmings leading the rest of world in a violent rush over the cliffs of devastating insanity of power. 　The movie industry smoothes the path for the masses to follow over the cliff by presenting violence in such a seductive way and by promoting war films in such a way that shows war being so glorious, honorable, and manly. Then, of course, joining up is irresistible. Our young men, and now women, are bound to say, "Let me go over the cliff too, please!"　 They ‘all’, brilliant intellectuals and naïve youth together, are perfect stooges for the military-industrial complex. 　　

I could go on bellowing from my cyber soapbox albeit to the selective deafness of the mindlessly meandering　sheep occupying the churches, universities, halls of justice and government, and treadmills and wastelands of the corporate world but, now, I may seem like the one who is "Nuts"!

Well, they say when you think everyone else is crazy, it may be you who are nuts! What a convenient way to silence lonely voices of the self-doubting whistleblowers.