I’m tired.
I’m tired of stupid people. I’m tired of responding to stupid people, but still, I find I must. I ran into someone today who still thinks 9-11 and Iraq were connected. That same someone thinks Islamists are out to convert the world. I can’t stand people who rave about the movie “Inception” when in all reality, that movie is garbage. Yet they just tend to gloss over it, letting the waves of ignorance wash over them without the slightest of higher thought.
Stupid people are everywhere. Now, I am not calling myself an elitist. I think people are stupid for a number of reasons. Let’s analyze, shall we?
1. Laziness: It takes just too damn much work to educate yourself even though with today’s tech, education is a few clicks away. For instance, someone sent me a bunch of drivvel after Katrina’s debacle in the form of an article that stated that after a 1929 Category 5 storm destroyed them, they picked themselves up by the bootstraps and rebuilt without government help. And with this tidbit of pseudo information, he went on to ramble on how he is sick of people asking for handouts. A few clicks later, I was able to forward to him the record of all hurricanes documented for 1929 and none hit New Orleans. So here was a guy absolutely nullified by a bit of faked information which he was too lazy to research on his own to see if it was true. These are the same people who want government to determine what their child should watch, read, and learn in school.
2. Denial: Because of deep seeded beliefs and ideologies, they are absolutely cut off from ANY new information contrary to what they believe getting through their cranium. Godforbid if they opened their minds and actually processed a different point of view. Because they have absolutely no humility that what they may know is wrong, they are in complete denial of what may actually be real.
3. Fear: I think many people are actually AFRAID of thinking for themselves because then they realize that maybe they are in the situation they are in today because they have a lifetime of stupidity. And then they can’t blame OTHER people anymore for their own misery or status in society (or lack thereof). These are the same people that cry about how cigarettes gave them cancer and they were manipulated by big tobacco. If they actually overcame the fear that what they did they did to themselves, they would be that much more miserable.
4. Ignorance: You will find these people were the “C” and “D” students of society. These were the kids of yesteryear that can barely comprehend the payout structure on a lottery let alone the complexities of the Iraq invasion and subsequent overthrow of the Baath party. To them, the “Baath Party” will always be a poor man’s alcohol induced soiree with a tub substituting as a jacuzzi. These people will never understand the dynamics between the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds in Iraq.
5. Hubris: These are the people who beat their chests and believe their god is better than your god, their country is better than our country and frankly, their beer is better than your beer. Humility is nowhere to be found in their dictionaries. They believe we should just nuke em all and let God sort em out. Their motto is “Fuck em all” even though they are the ones who will ultimately be fucked.
These are just a few reasons off the top of my head that they are blissfully ignorant and choose to stay that way. I get razzed on how my attempts to educate are actually interpreted as snobbery, but to be honest, it is just more frustration than it is elitism. I am far from an intellectual giant; I have just chosen to consume information wiser than most people. I can only request that of you too.
A) Ask questions even if it coincides with your own philosophies.
B) Realize that EVERYONE has an agenda.
C) Stupidity is a disease which must be cured one mind at a time.
D) And it is stupid to think you can cure everyone. But to give up trying is well, just stupid.
