This may or may not have anything to do with politics (I happen to think it does) but have you heard of this theory about where the universe came from? It basically says first there was nothing, then the nothing spontaneously turned into two separate but equal realities. The two realities are kept separate, because if they came together they would cancel each other out and then we'd be back to nothing again. One has a positive value and other negative, and are either kept apart by some means that wasn't explained, or for the time being are simply separated with no force holding them apart.

I am not making this up. I listened to Stephen Hawking talk about it. It sounds like how a credit card company operates. They are able to give you money (the positive value) because they also create a negative value to ballance it with. In other words, you get free money in exchange for you owing them that money (plus interest and other charges).

The reason I see politics written all over this theory is because the reasoning sounds familiar. First, there's something from nothing. And the word spontaneous is misleading, making you think it just happened for no reason. Or without a cause. The reason it's misleading is because "spontaneous" doesn't mean there was no force acting on it, 'spontaneous' means the force acting on it came from within instead of outside the system. In other words, the reasoning is flawed because in a state of nothingness there would be no force present (internal or external) to act at all. There is nothing there to cause nothing to become something.

The reason I think this is significant is because if a brilliant mind like Hawking's can overlook a glaring error such as this, what does that say about the average Joe who is being treated daily with political messages that make no sense?

It's not just America that has been dumbed down. Gore and Obama have both won Nobel prizes for basically doing nothing but spout off about things they know nothing about.