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Posted by Lian Dao on 2/12/2009, 9:29 am, in reply to "Re: 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.
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: 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.
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: 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.
:
Well okay if it makes you feel better then you can have that.
i do have an example to prove my theory though.
Consider your last President. The most powerful man of our species, chosen not once but twice to lead the largest military-industral state in the history of the planet yet who was almost universally regarded as being the most stupid human on the planet, almost incapable even of dressing himself.
Stupidity is a very serious and a most dangerous matter.
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