I Don't Want to Talk About It

   
Few subjects illicit more defensive denials, offensive accusations, and hard-headed animosity than politics and religion. Why is it that the very people who need to learn about politics and religion the most refuse to hear a word about it? The hands fly up in the primal body language of defense, the head turns away in refusal, and your polite conversation has suddenly turned to confrontation. “I don’t want to talk about it” is the opening response from so many people. Even when someone honestly seeks an answer to learn and openly asks, “Why is this?” many people will only listen up to the point that politics or religion is involved; then the wall goes up. Learning time is over.

To be ignorant of relevant facts is one thing, but to reject them out of hand because you are unwilling to even listen; that is either prideful rebellion or arrogance. It is often both. We don’t want to be wrong. We want to be right. It is the insistence of this ignorant defiance that keeps so many from learning.

I don’t wan to talk about it.
I don’t want to hear.
None of the facts you have for me
Will make it through my ear.

I don’t want to talk about it.
So, just be one your way.
Right or wrong it matters not
You may not have your say.

I was ignorant when we met
And that I’ll always be
I will not listen to your words
Even if I might agree

Yes my eyes are blind
And that is how they stay.
I can not see the mess I’m in
And I’m happy that way.

Good will can not convince me
Disposition matters not
I will not let you help me
Denial is my lot.

So if I ever ask you how we lost
Our freedom and our wealth
Just shake your head in wonder
At my lack of mental health.