It's Humpty Dumpty's World

"‘When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.'"

Today the young man described in the previous post "graduated" from "college."

Yikes.

The same issue can be found in ladies' clothing. When she fits a Size Eight in one store and Size Twelve elsewhere, she buys more at the first.

Everybody gets a trophy, diploma, whatever.

The problem appears, then, when someone like Victoria Soto comes along. She's a hero, not because her only chance for finding gainful employment was joining the lowered-standards military, but because she gave her life heroically. Nevertheless, people in US armed forces uniforms tend to be indiscriminately labeled heroes, regardless their actions or character.

So, another group of ignorant and obese Size Eight college graduates are loosed on the world today.

In some ways it's a pity the Mayans were wrong about yesterday.