sociological delusions

it occurs to me now that the experience of cognitive distortion
is one a vast regularity
most people contend with some form of epistemological incongruity
almost every day
a perfectly comprehensible world which is more or less guaranteed
to work to our mutual benefit is not the disturbing undercurrent of reality
most everyone intuits

we know it's there we know we cannot escape it

this principle appears to manifest itself in individual and
communal way
there is a saying
man proposes god disposes

but i also have become aware recently of an event that
sits terrible heavy in my cognitive safe
and it occurs to me that the incomprehensible discord
existing in the political hashing out of the relations between church and state regarding marriage
is well-nigh beyond possible resolution

i am grateful thus that my thinking about how a community life
is related to the life of an individual has been opened up

cutting to  the chase
in a recent statewide ballot amendment
to the state constitution the proposal
as supported by the catholic hierarchy and
numerous other religious bodies
the amendment to define marriage in a traditional and natural way
was defeated

but was it?

and here's the problem...

in a widespread public vote is it gauranteed
that a numerical and statistical victory
one merely of numbers - constitutes an actual victory??

could it be and must it be possible to interpret the
demographic and geographic determinants of such a proposed victory

when one peruses the election results by county in minnesota
all 87 counties reporting 100%
one begins to realize that virtually all the counties
away from the urban centers
voted to clearly define the social institution of marriage
only 10 (?) counties had majorities which shot down the measure
almost 2% of the voting public failed to mark the dot for a vote either way
this brings the percentage differential to around 51% to 49%

thus 77 counties stood in strong solidarity with the archbishop of minneapolis/st paul

so while people in my very own community can walk around with smug attitudes of political supremacy they can only do so as far as i can tell as proponents of a vast delusion
which
given the topic at hand should be no big surprise

this points to a vast a terrible disconnect between urban living and rural living
and i find this disconnect rather disturbing
perhaps this explains why i have a propensity towards country music

i think the value of a community of knowing the values of a people who live off of the  land people who farm and work things out away from urban mayhem....we need to listen to these people more
the   am ha eretz  have keener insight and are colored richly with natural reference

even in the county where i live the vote for the archbishops' proposal
was 69% thus only a mere 29% of the local people where i live think that opening marriage
to boyboy girlgirl systems is an affair worthy of human consideration
and more than i live in minnesota
i live in stearns county
i do not live in the big cities nor do i want to live there

a proposal i reject completely
i am in fact insulted that it is even a proposal
and that humans are being forced to look at this
it's like looking at old porn or something
i want nothing of it i don't want to live around it i don't want it in my back yard
thank you very much

anyway
the community idea will live on somehow

i know in my disappointment
that truth is rarely evident
in the majority vote