A Mina Incident

When I was 9 years old I used to sell door to door. Even at that early age I understood you never made a sale through a closed door. I came upon a house with a screened porch about 8’ deep and 20’ wide. I knocked on the screen to which I heard what appeared to be an elderly woman’s voice, “hello?” I responded and waited for the door to open. After arriving at a justified wait I knocked again, “hello?” “Ma’am would you kindly open the door so we may speak?” This exercise went on many times until the endless delays finally broke my concentration and I looked around and away from the door. In the porch corner was a mina bird. I knocked on the door to see it mockingly speak “hello.” Once I discovered this, my expectation of the door opening and a sales opportunity were revealed as wholly false and laughable. When one steps back a little and captures the spatial scope of the government you can discover a laughable reality. They are all parrots. We all know parrots can’t talk, only mock the sounds of word and most certainly have no comprehension of language. Yet when we hear parrot sounds out of a human government agent, we make the mistake, as in any case, of a false expectation like opening a door. You are a superior thinker to a parrot. Always remember your advantage. When they are repeating the sounds of what they’ve been trained to say, don’t give it the credit of an original thought. That is your sovereign territory and precisely why they will never understand you. Birds of a feather truly flock together but they’ll never outsmart a thinking man.