Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Chemistry and Porn

I am reading Creation Revisited which is an extremely interesting molecular physics lesson. My friend Andy thinks that books (preferring film) are unnecessary and I invoked this book as something that would be impossible to convey through film. The more I read it and think about it the more I think he is right. This book could be made into a movie, in fact, I decided, not only was I wrong to think that it couldn't be a movie but it would actually be more interesting, and more effective as a movie.

Furthermore, lessons like those taught in this book, are much easier to conceptualize visually, than textually. For example, if you could expand the size of the nucleus of an atom to the size of a man, the electrons would be orbiting him at a distance of 100 km, the remainder of the space being empty. Now even for those of us who can visualize these distances easily it would be much simpler to digest this info as a picture.

Now for the really interesting part, in case any gets bored, the visual "lessons" could be interspersed with material that is far more interesting. For example hardcore pornography. I wonder if any of the schools of education at the elite universities of the world would be interested in developing this as a project.

Take a bunch of average dipshits who have been subjected to the brain abuse that passes for education and teach them concepts considered difficult for their age group. I'm just spitballing here but if I could teach differential equations to a group of 15 year old high school dropouts by mixing porn into their video lessons who could object?

I'm anticipating a discussion on morality here, so I pose the following query to all you nay sayers who may oppose my "Snatch your way to math brilliance" program:

1) Which is less moral - stupidity or pornography?

Those of you who know me will appreciate that the question is purely rhetorical as I find porn to be as moral as any of the video diarrhea we are subjected to on a daily basis. Whether it is a billboard exhortation to consume more malt liquor or a television ad for a boner pill so that a 65 year old CEO has more reason to ditch the mother of his grown children and marry that bright young secretary with the great rack.

People I implore you to consider the merits of my proposal. I further submit to the few religious zealots who might actually still be reading to put the following query into the moral machinery of whatever brand of hocus pocus you subscibe to:

Do you or your children play first person shooter video games?
If so, do you take pleasure in the destruction of your video enemies?
Is this more or less morally reprehensible than genitalia mixed with differential equations?

In the immortal words of my favorite blogger: If you disagree with anything on this page you are wrong. Porn for our children, that's my campaign slogan.

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