Hoaxes, Myths and Misbeliefs

(above: Triceratops juvenile Torosaurus, friend to helpless baby dinos of all walks)

It has come to my attention that Triceratops was a hoax.

How easily my school-built reality of the world can be shattered. First Pluto's planethood is rescinded--now its just a dwarf-planet a.k.a a minor planet (which i think is really mean and born of jealousy), and now Triceratops.

So Triceratops is really just a juvenile Torosaurus, which mostly sucks because the name Triceratops is way better than Torosaurus--which reminds me of tuna (Toro in Japanese and I eat a lot of sushi).

Conversely, the fringe theories about recycling being good, global warming being real, and smoking causing cancer that we were taught in school despite the fact that in the adult world nobody wanted to be responsible for these things, have all turned out to be true. When I was a child and I talked about water conservation (like turning off taps--really complex stuff) my thesis was met with "aww". Now David Suzuki is basically Canada's crown prince of ecology and the world is in fact simultaneously on fire, melting, over-populated and in danger of being rapidly unpopulated-due-to-being-on-fire.

This revising of history puts in perspective previously held beliefs. Fictions once held as fact like bathing is deadly, blood-letting is a cure for hysteria, white people are better and the earth is 6,000 years old (some people still believe in the last two), while still clearly madness are understandable given temporal context. Arguably it would be far less tragic if our earth, our melty-on-fire earth, were melty-and-on-fire but only 6,000 years old and not its actual 4.55 Billion years old. A 6,000 year-old world filled with filthy, light-headed (from the blood-letting), white supremacists should be melting and on fire.

No one would argue with that.