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Posted by Steve on 2/12/2009, 9:20 am, in reply to "a brief history of stupidity"
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: Stupidity is neither fun nor easy. Hence the
: immeasurable amount of miserable, stupid
: people who inhabit this planet and who go to
: such great lengths to make their stupidity
: look like hard, highly specialised work
: which only they themselves are capable of
: doing, thus proving themselves and the
: particular group that they may also identify
: with, to be better than any one elses.
:
: The history of our species is little more
: than a series of random stupid events
: brought on by knee-jerk, impulsive,
: irrational behaviours which all
: responsibilty to are passed over to the
: seemingly external abstractive concepts of
: greed (economics), hatred (politics) and
: delusion (religion). When observed from the
: vantage point of hindsight, this
: consistently impulsive, irrational behaviour
: appears to have the semblance of meaning,
: which gives further and continued purpose to
: the stupidity that drives our species ever
: onward.
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Well, speak for yourself, Lian Dao. For me, stupid is fun and easy.
I particularly like your Trinity of Horrors -- economics, politics, and religion.
I would only add to the list your peoples' misplaced stress on the second syllable of the word 'controversy,' but that's just me.
Steve
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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