bass line

Sometime in the mid-90's, I read in an actual printed issue of Field & Stream magazine that bass won't hit the same lure or bait again for two years after they get off a hook. They remember.

My best bass lure ever was a soft plastic frog with realistic-ish coloring. Drag it across the pads and into open water and BAM, it was nearly irresistible. They took that frog down to one leg, and it just kept getting more attractive from a bass perspective. Only as a legless lump was its spell broken.

I need to get my bass on. The one who remembers the bait, and can say even to a gimpy frog, yeah, none for me, thanks.

My friend baits me with ideology. Every time, I respond with documented facts, observations based on logic, invitations to critical thinking. I need to stop pretending it's a surprise when none of that is effective. The conversation is unlikely to shift, because I'm not willing to engage in the distortion, lies, manipulation, NLP, subliminals and all the other tools used to program and reinforce the ideology.

In other contexts based on life experience and skill, his critical thinking and logic are more intact. I need to remember to make that contextual distinction when he throws out the ideology bait.

For him, he's already right, because ideology. No one can make him wrong, because ideology, and that's as much as he needs to think. They told him how superior he is, and nobody's gonna take that from him. Because ideology.

I need to let that shredded frog gimp on out into the open water.

The shift is coming. That's how I can write about it today. I'm so close, like as I'm striking I'm thinking to myself, hey, I bit that other leg off this same frog yesterday.

Maybe tomorrow I'll act like a smart bass.