Brushing Teeth, Scanning Brain

MEDIA DRIVEN, WE ALL like our anniversaries, good or bad. Maybe that means we are all interested in history. Upcoming is the first anniversary of the mass murder at the grade school in Connecticut. Everybody says that the person who committed this atrocitiy must've been mentally ill, that no one in their right mind could do something like that. Then along comes someone saying that no, we are all violent beings; show me a war, and I'll show you thousands of participants firing weapons, killing as many people in as short a time as possible, not just one "mentally ill" person doing it. We probably ought to accept the proposition that there is some truth to both of these ostensibly conflicting points of view. A saint, by definition, is someone who can embrace, simultaneously, more than one seemingly contradictory point of view. A person who can reconcile every disparate truth into one matrix of harmonious, comprehensive truth. A mass murderer is a person with a faulty brain, or soul. We are all persons with potentially faulty brains and souls. Therefore We are all potential mass murderers. Something along those lines. The good news is, we are now starting to talk about a glorious highly technological future in which we can administer to ourslelves brain check ups, like we measure blood pressure today, in the comfort of our own sphygmomanometer infested homes. Just what we all need, just what the doctah ordered; get up, take blood pressure meds, brush teeth, shower, shave, scan brain, take xanax, prozac, caffeine, or whatever in the heck the brain scan indicates. Perhaps the brain scanner is also a brain rewire-er. Ever improving models of brain scanners-rewire-ers, available first by prescription from licensed corporate pharmaceutical concerns, later, available at Wal Mart, always the low price, always; new and improved and cheaper models every year, like computers. You can't wait, can you...