On the QT

Wednesday, August 30, 2006


IS YOU IS, OR IS YOU AIN'T A PLANET?

Not only that, but how we view the changing state of Pluto tells us a lot about who we are.

If we take the reactionary stance that when we were kids it was a planet, so it ought to be today. We are the Blutoists then. You remember Bluto the bully from Popeye.

If we take the post modern stance that whatever we previously were taught is wrong, then we embrace the notion that Pluto is not a planet. We are then the Rejectionists. We probably read and believed the davinci code.

If we take the indifferent stance that we don't care; it doesn't mean anything to us whether Pluto is a planet or not. Then we are the Hedonists. If it doesn't directly affect us, then what do we care?

If we take a wait and see stance, then we are the Reactionists. We'll wait until the media tells us what to think. If how can Couris be wrong?

Of course, there are also several sub-classes such as the Naysayers who never believed we went to the moon; the Revisionists who will soon say, Pluto was never a real planet anyway(s); and the Obliterates who deny that there are any planets because by definition a planet takes care of its occupants and there is no class distinction.

I just hope the Disney folks don't rename their dog now.

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