The central socialist government, as well as most state governmental apparatuses have become exceedingly jumbled and confusing over time. With the apparatuses more confusing and onerous , it's difficult for the citizenry to focus on the truly important events that affect and infect our lives. We strive to dedicate effort to the things that matter, but the chances of failing to separate the important happenings is excruciatingly difficult due to the level of created complexity.
If I wanted to study stupidity I would pick any white liberal who believes Zimmerman was guilty.
Seems to be a requisite for all politicians. There are a few who do not fit the mold, but they are ridiculed, lied about and generally forced to the sidelines.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
“When everyone is treated as a special snowflake who gets a trophy just for showing up, and bad behavior is tolerated, kids come to believe that hard work is for chumps. That’s a very short-sighted way to look at things, but adults who expect heavy long-term strategic thinking from children are practicing their own form of applied stupidity.”
I believe the tide turned about 1980 or so and here we are today. A loaded paragraph depicting all of the subtle dysfunction that passes for everyday life in the USA.
intelligence vs stupidity
I was expecting a link to Democratic Underground.
Any time a lefty talks about how to be stupid, you can believe that there is authority behind the thoughts...
I have been struggling the last several years with this issue: “A mind pumped full of despair, and convinced the world is hopelessly stacked against it, loses the enthusiasm necessary to process information and make good decisions.”
After a while you realize that offering solutions aren’t what people want anymore - they just want people who do what they say and can be blamed if it goes wrong. It’s difficult to justify continuing to lean into the wind, when it requires a chain to maintain your position.
It’s who you know not what you know or the ability you have.
Brilliant article!
I see, more and more with each passing year, this once-great nation devolving into that which was depicted in the movie ‘Idiocracy’.
Ignorance and stupidity are applauded as cool; intelligence is ridiculed. Leeching off of taxpayers is a way of life; working for your money is for suckers.
It won’t last long, and it won’t be pretty when it all falls apart.
Bump for future reference.
The human mind is supposed to work with two modalities- inductive and deductive. Inductive is where you take in data and compare it to old data and analyze its utility. Deductive is where you draw a conclusion from this comparison and analysis and create new rules of behavior and act from those new rules. It’s that simple.
The problem is that the deductive part is tied in via a trunk line to the fear response, and when fear is working the adrenal glands you have little room for the intake of new data, you act to fight or flee with little analysis involved, it’s all reflex arc behavior associated with the contour of the threat.
Now if a person is in a state of chronic, low intensity anxiety over any issue, even subconscious anxiety from childhood trauma, abuse or confusion, he is operating in deductive mode and is NOT TAKING IN NEW DATA and is operating out of reflex/habit. This is stupidity.