Homeopathy of the idiocy

March 20, 2010

Homeopathy works on the principle of similia similibus curantur, or the similar treat the similar, that it means that to heal from an orchitis we should take small doses of political jargon, a concept that raises some legitimate doubt.

The fact is that the success of homeopathy seems to have no boundaries, due to the penetration of a product on the market seems to be directly proportional to the degree of misunderstanding of the mechanisms that regulate it. Indeed, this is why religion still selling well, despite the fierce competition of best surrogates, especially in their soothing qualities, such as satellite television and bowling.

Therefore, people are convinced that you can cure the idiocy with the idiocy, simply by applying the principle of successive dilutions that, contrary to common logic, instead of diminishing the effect of the drug, increases his effectiveness.

Found that also Italy has entered the fan club of homeopaths, do not be surprised when you hear or read nonsenses uttered by some leading figure in the bleak media landscape. This idiocy is used to treat those already present, the idiocy that has infected the institutions and citizens, conveyed by mutant viruses through the ink of newspapers (take a look at yours fingers, the next time you will read a newspaper), by radiation or television, or by other unknown beams.

Unfortunately, the suspicion that someone is overdoing it with the nonsense exists and is reasonably based on the resurgence of symptoms, so that to be diluted in the ocean of boundless stupidity, it might rather be the intelligence. But maybe that’s the problem at its source: there’s somebody that maybe we need to heal from this terrible disease, whose most common symptoms are critical sense, a desire for knowledge, tolerance, manifest inability to intellectual sodomy and to collapse in front of the socio-economic superpower.

[italian version]


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