Crazy Old Man Rants: The Metric System

     I don't frequently agree with liberals, but occasionally they are right about some things. For instance, you will sometimes hear a college aged libtard say something like, "Herpa derp, the rest of the world uses the metric system. We should too."

     I really couldn't care less about what the rest of the world does. Not caring about what the rest of the world did used to be one of the great qualities of Americans. And it seems that our recent decline (the last 15-20 years) is directly correlated with caring more about the opinions of the rest of the world. Nay, I say that caring about the opinions of other nations is at least a partial cause for our decline as a nation,

Remember kids, never listen to a hippie.

     We were the leaders, not just of the free world, but the entire world. We were the most awesome country in the world. People literally risked their lives to get to this country. Even now, after we've lost a large degree of our awesomeness, people will still risk death just to come to this country. Females who trek from Central America to the U.S. will most likely be raped along the way. Some will even be raped multiple times. But hey, apparently being raped and suffering a life time of herpes outbreaks is still better than living in Mexico.

     That's how awesome we were. We had such reserves of awesomeness that even after significant declines, we're still the best...even if just barely.

     But, on the point about America switching to the metric system, our little libtard friend is correct. But as usual, even when a liberal happens to be right about something, they will inevitably be right for the wrong reasons.

     Case and point, America should not switch to the metric system because everyone else is doing it. I don't care what they do. No, we should convert to the metric system because it is a better system than the one we have.

    Without Googling it, how many teaspoons in a tablespoon? How many quarts in a gallon? How many cups in a pint? How many yards in a mile?

    Now if you do know most of this, then I would guess that you do a lot of cooking and/or you're a woman. For some reason our current system makes sense to women. And that actually makes sense to me. Because women have an ability to understand the inanely complicated. I think this is because women are themselves inanely complicated and thus take to our current system of weights and measures like a moth to a flame.

     Now, I will demonstrate the superiority of the metric system. The base measurement for mass in the metric system is the gram. The two most used measures for mass are the gram (g) and the kilogram (kg).  There are 1000 grams in a kilogram. See how easy that was. Here's another: the base measure of distance is the meter. There are 1000 meters in a kilometer. Every thing is base 10, so it's easy to remember.

     But here is where Americans get tripped up, they say "Well, how many pounds are in a kilogram?" To which I say, "It doesn't matter."

     Do you go into the gas station, reach for a one liter of Pepsi, but then stop and ask, "How many ounces are in a liter?" NO! Do you know why? Because it doesn't matter.

     So if tomorrow you get the hankering to make some home made bread, and find that when you get to Wal-Mart all the flower is now sold in 1kg bags, don't ask "Well, how many pounds is that?" Because it doesn't matter. And besides it is 2.20462 lbs per kg. And I did know that from memory, even though I checked Google to make sure I was right. Originally I carried out the decimal two places further than Google. You have my permission to be impressed.

      And don't think for a second that I am proposing that there should be some kind of government mandate saying "From now on we will all use this." First of all, private companies have the right to use whatever system they want. And if you or I don't like it, then we can choose not to buy their stuff. Second, if the government were to get involved, then it would undoubtedly screw up what should be very simple.

     Instead I wish that companies, say Pepsi, would just start labeling their products with the metric system, and nothing else. No additional info telling how many ounces. Just the metric measurement. So we would have .5L, 1L and 2L bottles of Pepsi.

    I guess I would pass one law regarding the switch. I would make I legal to smack the crap out of anyone who dared to ask, "But how many ounces is that?"

What I See

     Problems...everywhere I look I see problems. Some of these problems seem totally unrelated, and of course many of them are unrelated. But for the longest time I've had a feeling that I couldn't shake. A feeling that some things that seem unrelated are in fact related. A feeling that some problems have the same root cause.

     I hear people propose solutions, but they don't understand the root of the problem and thus their proposals are, at best, just a band-aid on a gaping chest wound. But I think I may have found the root.

     I'm not the only one to see the root of the problem. There just aren't enough people talking about the root of the problem.

    The problem is that men have become weak. They possess not just physical weakness, but mental weakness and weakness of character. And when half of the population is being taught through television, through the internet and through the public education system that Weakness is a virtue, then that culture is doomed.

     Well, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of  seeing ignorant and/or morally repugnant individuals tell young men that weakness is better than strength, that ignorance is better than knowledge, laziness is better than diligence and that status is more important than character.

Welcome to Masculine Ideals. I'm not arrogant enough to think that I'm the manliest man ever. I don't for a second think that I am perfect. I was never a  professional athlete. I was never the CEO of a fortune 500 company. I don't have a college degree, a prestigious career or even a high notch count.

I'm just some guy. A guy who regrets the decline of masculinity. A guy who thinks that masculinity is good, and that society suffers when there are fewer masculine men. A guy who has himself, at times, slipped into decidedly unmasculine ways of thinking and behaving. A man who is determined not to make those same mistakes again. A guy determined to be better.

So bookmark this page and come back as together we explore how to be better men, and in so doing, just maybe, add a little good back into the world.