The Wisdom of Shit

I recently asked a friend of mine to check out an organization on the Internet for me called the "Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy". My friend laughed at my request because he thought it was a joke (the organization AND my request). After I assured him I was no joking he asked me, with a bit of chuckle remaining in his voice out of respect I suppose, why I would want to know anything about such an obviously "BS" organization. I told him, yes, it was obviously BS, but it was a real organization too, and as such I hoped to find some useful information about the nature of the "beast" (i.e. deception based organization) that shat such shit.

I realized after reflecting on this conversation that it is part of my own nature to question what I don't understand, even when the object of my confusion stinks to high heaven, as in this case (metaphorically speaking of course). Small children normally have no qualms about investigating a pile of dog poop in the grass. For some reason, that I do not rue, this kind of curiosity has never left me (thanks no doubt to my "psychopathic" nature). I still believe, and believe strongly, that the best evidence for understanding something, from organisms to organizations is the content (and hence "smell") of the shit that comes out of it. This is actually an established scientific technique that doctors and scientists have relied upon for hundreds of years. In fact, recent studies indicate that nature herself has been relying on it all along. Dogs for example identify all sorts of critical information about another animal simply by smelling its shit.

So, it shouldn't surprize my friend (and later in that same conversation he admitted that it didn't surprize him after he thought about it) that I would ask for information about an organization that in my opinion "stinks". I am simply concuring with Brian, the dog from the hit adult cartoon "Family Guy", when he once said, "Everything I need to know about a person I can gleen from (sniffing) their assholes."

(J.D. 6-19-2014)