"He who joy­ful­ly march­es to mu­sic in rank and file has al­ready earned my con­tempt. He has been giv­en a large brain by mis­take, since for him the spinal cord would suf­fice."
-​-​Al­bert Ein­stein

The con­cept of "Jim Jones and the Bologna Fac­to­ry" came to me a few months ago while I was do­ing some in­de­pen­dant re­search on the in­fa­mous Jim Jones of the 1970's. I've come to be­lieve that, though our morales are in­de­pen­dant­ly shaped by the eth­i­cal sys­tems of the so­ci­eties we live in, there are in­her­ant­ly evil crimes we can com­mit against our­selves and oth­ers. At what point does one, re­gard­less of na­tion­al­i­ty, re­li­gion, or any oth­er fac­tor, rec­og­nize that the de­viance of oth­ers from this un­spo­ken path of moral­i­ty does not have to be the de­viance of our own? In our age, per­haps those act­ing in de­viance may in fact be the ones walk­ing the path of moral­i­ty!

On a lighter tone, I love food! Last years en­try "+think twice" was about the Amer­i­can prob­lem with obe­si­ty, and I must ad­mit that the balogna theme car­ried over.

I hope you en­joy! As al­ways, I ap­pre­ci­ate feed­back great­ly (it's hard to find good crit­ics :P )

My name is Hunter, I'm 22, and a stu­dent at WSU.