Rambling--mostly about Evil

Before I forget, I want to blog about history and human nature in this post.

Last night, I was on Crime Library, and read about DB Cooper. Very interesting story there. In 1971, the guy hijacked a plane, extorted a whole lotta cash, jumped out of the plane somewhere into the Washington wild, and has never been seen since. And then a few years later, a separate, but eerily similar incident happened. This time though, the guy actually got caught because he bragged about it--which then makes me wonder about that Napoleon complex thing that psychologists say compel criminals to commit. So anyway, when they catch the guy, the investigator supposedly asked him if he was DB Cooper. The guy stayed silent. He died within a short period of time, and took to the grave a great deal of mystery. He's keeping everyone who's ever heard this story on the edge of their seats--for eternity! This brings me to history. I hate people who take secrets to their graves! I hate it when people deliberately keep secrets from the public! I don't mean private secrets, those are different. But issues that should be within the public domain should be just that--publicized! Like that stupid woman who sang, "You're so Vain," and she kept the identity of the song's subject secret. And what's even worse, she sold the secret to somebody. If you make a freaking song about it, meant to be played for the public, in the public domain, then don't agonize the people from knowing the identity of the narcissist! And I am most irked about the government's secrecy over UFO's! It's not your Universe! Tell us if we have brothers and sisters in parallel worlds! If UFO's aren't real, then what's the deal with all these governments' surreptitious and sly-fox cover-ups? Pisses me off how pieces of history can be deliberately kept from the "fossil record" because people are so evil. How can they be so inconsiderate as to leave the public forever perplexed, forever torn in their grueling, yet futile quest for truth.

On another note. I was thinking about McCarthyism while I was washing my face. The Red Scare truly was mass hysteria. It was widespread fear within the people that led to the craze. What I don't understand sometimes is unnecessary overreaction. It was apparent that most of America were staunchly anti-Communism. But it seemed that the root of the violent commotion that boiled over was in a fear that Communism was going to pervert American Democracy. But the fear was obviously misplaced, because most Americans were so repulsed by Communism, so was the overreaction a fear that they knew, deep within themselves, they could possibly get swayed by that doctrine? So therefore, they had to eradicate it? Don't take my words out of context. I know very well how small infiltration of Communism can eventually take over, especially as I am learning Darwin's Theory in Anthro. But I'm just saying that Americans blaming and witch hunting the Communists for their own hysterical overreaction was irresponsible. McCarthy is a silly a$$.

Oh one more thing! I was reading about additives during breakfast this morning. And it kills me. I've never noticed, but Food Network and all of those Travel Channel, History Channel, and Discovery Channel shows about mass-produced junk food never ever show the machines adding additives, preservatives and the gunky nasty mess-stuff. That's so evil.