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After a cursory perusal<\/span>
\nOf your uncorroborated facts<\/span>
\nIn your unverified application<\/span>
\nWe are pleased to accept<\/span>
\nThe donation of your brain<\/span>
\nTo pseudoscience<\/span><\/p>\n

The great thing about donating your brain to pseudoscience is that such brains are largely unused.\u00a0 Scientific literacy, sound logic, and critical thinking seem to be largely optional in postmodern America.\u00a0 Maybe this is progress.\u00a0 I can see the headlines now: “Western Civilization Renders Effective Human Beings Superfluous.”\u00a0 Of course, you’ll never see this headline.\u00a0 Mostly because the word “superfluous,” in a crowning irony, is extremely unlikely to make it through the dumb-down filter that is omnipresent in mass media, rendering it unneeded.\u00a0 In this juggernaut of progress, we will soon render focus groups superfluous, as big data will know us better than we know ourselves, and the lowest common denominator pabulum rendered by focus group results will be delivered by an algorithm.\u00a0 Of course, such algorithms will be proprietary in the private sector and top-secret within government inner circles, to assure that the economy is fed and stability reigns.\u00a0 But no need to worry, as consumers and consumed merge, we can bask in the glow of our glowing big screen boxes, approximating life so statistically accurately.\u00a0 Our every emotional, snacking, and consuming need will be re-calibrated every fraction of a second.\u00a0 Now, some might think that this is some grand conspiracy theory, but those in the know realize that the government has planted conspiracy theories to distract us from deeper truths…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a cursory perusal Of your uncorroborated facts In your unverified application We are pleased to accept The donation of your brain To pseudoscience The great thing about donating your brain to pseudoscience is that such brains are largely unused.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[678,563,587,116,539,148,267,359,586,475,109,548,658,94,585,568,584,390,53,421,85],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-algorithm","tag-america","tag-conspiracy","tag-economy","tag-facts","tag-government","tag-irony","tag-life","tag-literacy","tag-logic","tag-media","tag-modern","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-progress","tag-proprietary","tag-pseudoscience","tag-science","tag-short-poems","tag-truth","tag-western-civilization"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Pseudoscience | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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