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Thursday, May 29, 2008

"Stupid Is As Stupid Does!"

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be costly mistake.

I know people are stupid, some profoundly but it never ceases to amaze me the depths of just how stupid some people can be, and there is no excuse for it in this day and age. NONE! I should know these things and stop being amazed because I have studied the 5 Laws of Stupidity and even though Law 1 lays it out brilliantly I still cannot believe it when I run into it or hear about it.


1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.


At first, the statement sounds trivial, vague and horribly ungenerous. Closer scrutiny will however reveal its realistic veracity. No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:

a. people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.

b. day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

You really don't want to believe the first law because it does sound mean and for real you end up losing friends behind it. But the fact is pretty evident and it is getting worse everyday. It's kind of like insanity, most insane people don't realize they are insane as with stupid people. Everyone else can see that they are stupid, well except stupid people and that is why people like George Bush gets appointed, shits all over the American public, then wipes his ass with the Constitution and no one utters a word. He then declares "shit sammiches" are good and all his parrots repeat ad nauseous and the next thing you know Subway is selling the $5 dollar foot long.

Now the reason for the rant is the fact that after all of the endless hours of Reverend Wright coverage on the very same TV's stupid people watch and you still have some idiots that will argue you down that Barack is a Muslim. The fact that Hillary played it off on 60 Minutes when she said, "Barack is a christian, I mean as far as I know", was the final straw for me. On the very same 60 minutes episode, the journalist was telling some idiot from Ohio that Barack was not Muslim after the retard said that is the reason he wasn't voting for him. Guess what? That idiot still didn't believe Barack was a Christian. Granted this was before the Reverend Wright issue but damn...I guess it wasn't one of the faux propagandist's it was only 60 Minutes so dude didn't believe it. If I remember correctly he said he heard it on faux that Barack was Muslim. I guess if you watch Faux or know how they operate you could understand why a stupid person would still think Barack is a Muslim but not after the Reverend Wright hype though. NO EXCUSE! I was willing to see them join forces up until Hills said that "as far as I know" BS! She became more and more rethugliclan like as the primaries rolled on and Barack went on an 11-0 run in the top of the second half. Now Hillary is acting like she can't hear that fat lady singing in the bottom of the 9th! "Na Na Naaa Na, Na Na Naaa Na...Heeeey Yeeeea Good Byeeeee!" However, true to her rethugliclan lite form she will not concede defeat and play nice with the rest of the members in her party. They are going to have to drag her out of the convention. It's going to be almost as scandalous as $Bill and Monica!

Did you know that 18% percent of people believe that the sun revolves around the earth! REEALLY?! That's when the 1st Law of Stupidity kicks in...From Crooks & Liars:

Putting public ignorance in context

I genuinely believed, foolishly, that one of the unintended side benefits of the media’s fascination with Jeremiah Wright is that no one, anywhere, could still possibly believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim. After all, everyone in the country got to see a whole lot of Obama’s Christian pastor and his Christian church. Sure, there are some uninformed people out there, and some willfully ignorant people who simply choose not to accept reality, but generally speaking, it’s hard to imagine more than a handful of voters buying this foolishness.

And yet, the polls have been discouraging. The most recent Newsweek poll found that 11% of the public still thinks Obama is a Muslim. An NYT/CBS poll put the number at 7%. The Pew Forum found 10%.

As disappointing as this is, however, Ben Smith provided some interesting context to public confusion.

One relevant piece of context: Large minorities of Americans consistently say they hold wildly out-of-the-mainstream views, often specifically discredited beliefs. In some cases, those views should make them pretty profoundly alienated from one party or the other.

For instance:

22 percent believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.
30 percent believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
23 percent believe they’ve been in the presence of a ghost.
18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth.

In other words, if about one-in-10 voters buy into the nonsense about Obama, it’s still a reasonably low number, compared to some other widely-held misconceptions.

I’m just not sure, from a political perspective, whether this is reassuring or not. MORE!


The other number I thought was high was the amount of people who still believes Saddam had WMDs?!? Then I remembered Law 1 section a:
a. people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.
These laws cannot be stated enough! Now remember these are Laws of Science not like traffic laws and criminal laws or those "thou shalt not rules", they have also been tested over time and the results stay the same, like the laws of gravity and motion and physics overall. They are constants in a world that constantly changes. The Laws of Stupidity are included in that group! You want scientific proof that people are stupid?! Look around you! Read a newspaper or watch TV. The saddest are those street interviews Jay Leno does. Some of those people are teachers and they couldn't tell you who the first lady is or pick out the president in a police lineup.

True story! When Martin O'Malley first got elected as Mayor of Baltimore city he was out and about visiting high crime areas and of course one of the dumbest criminals in the world thought he was out there trying to "cop". You would think his dumb ass would have seen all of the cameras trying to catch the mayoral photo op! But like the title of this post, "Stupid is as Stupid Does!"

So just to give you guy's a little refresher because I end up needing one here lately once a month. The only fool proof way to defeat a stupid person is to avoid them like the aids at all cost's! If that is not possible try to remember the 5 Basic Laws of Stupidity!

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

by Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
in
Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987


1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

At first, the statement sounds trivial, vague and horribly ungenerous. Closer scrutiny will however reveal its realistic veracity. No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:

a. people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.

b. day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.


2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Although convinced that fractions of human beings are stupid and that they are so because of genetic traits, I am not a reactionary trying to reintroduce surreptitiously class or race discrimination, I firmly believe stupidity is an indiscriminate privilege of all human groups and is uniformly distributed according to a constant proportion.


3. A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.


When confronted for the first time with the Third Basic Law, rational people instinctively react with feelings of skepticism and incredulity. The fact is that reasonable people have difficulty in conceiving and understanding unreasonable behavior. But let us abandon the lofty plane of theory and let us look pragmatically at our daily life. We all recollect occasions in which a fellow took an action which resulted in his gain and our loss: we had to deal with a helpless person. We can recollect cases in which a fellow took an action by which both parties gained: he was intelligent. Such cases do indeed occur. But upon thoughtful reflection you must admit that these are not the events which punctuate most frequently our daily life. Our daily life is mostly made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does what he does. In fact there is no explanation- or better, there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.


4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be costly mistake.

One is tempted to believe that a stupid man will only do harm to himself but this is confusing stupidity with helplessness. On occasion one is tempted to associate oneself with a stupid individual in order to use him for one's own schemes. Such manoeuvre cannot but have disastrous effects because a) it is based on a a complete misunderstanding of the essential nature of stupidity and b) it gives the stupid person added scope for the exercise of his gifts. One may hope to out manoeuvre the stupid and, up to a point, one may actually do so. But because of the erratic behavior of the stupid, one cannot foresee all the stupid's actions and reactions and before long one will be pulverized by the unpredictable moves of the stupid partner.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. The corollary of the Law is that: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

According to the Second Basic Law, the fraction of stupid people is a constant which is not affected by time, space, race, class or any other socio-cultural or historical variable. It would be a profound mistake to believe the number of stupid people in a declining society is greater than in a developing society. Both such societies are plagued by the same percentage of stupid people. The difference between the two societies is that in the society which performs poorly:

the stupid members of the society are allowed by the other members to become more active and take more actions; there is a change in the composition of the non-stupid section with a relative decline of populations of areas I, H1 and B1 and a proportionate increase of populations H2 and B2.
"the stupid members of the society are allowed by the other members to become more active and take more actions..."

As you can see by the clusterfuck that has been going on for the past 8 years!


Now don't despair if after you read this and suddenly realized that you are stupid, because there is help. You come on back here on a daily basis, read my post's and get yourself "edjumacated" on whats really going on in the world. Stupid people bookmark the page now so you can find your way back. Don't be afraid the pain only last for a few days while the truth sinks in!




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