Stupid People!

You know, there are a lot of things that bug the heck out of me in life. There’s the recession, which I don’t truly understand – as near as I can figure if the news would stop reporting about how horrible things are, things would immediately start getting better. Then there’s snow – yes that lovely white fluffy stuff that everyone dreams about around Christmas time. It when you’re still dreaming about it (only those dreams now involve a shovel) and it’s almost April that snow looses all of its charm. Honestly, Frosty would last around here, about as long as it took me to find my shotgun!

But what I come back to time and time again is stupidity. Frankly, stupidity should be the enemy of every intelligent person out there. Why? Hmmm.

Clearly you are one of them, so I’ll use little words to make it easier.

Stupidity is bad!

Next to greed it’s probably the most destructive human emotion out there. The holocaust – designed and led by a greedy evil bastard, but if stupidity had been taken out of the equation, he wouldn’t have had a national following – nope, he’d have been the crazy guy who lived in the spooky house on the corner that got egged on a regular basis.

So why is it so prevalent? Sorry, I mean, why is there so much of it? It could be breeding – we don’t breed smart people enough. God’s joke of the ages, stupid people would die out if they all came in ugly packages. So let’s make them look good on the whole and then introduce alcohol and hormones to make them seem smart – at least until the baby making is done.

Or maybe it’s the media. Ever notice how most news stories involve someone stupid doing something stupid? Or how most of our popular media – your survivors and bachelors leading the way, are all about stupid people making other people look even stupider? Stupid is cool! Who needs to be smart when looking good while being stupid pays so well!

Or my personal favourite – the amount of intelligence on the planet is constant – it’s the population that keeps growing! This is supported by how the really stupid things, tend to happen in big cities! Individually, most people are smart enough to get by. Put them in a crowd and suddenly even the most intelligent of the bunch are hanging from light posts above the mob and throwing garbage cans through store fronts!

I suppose that I’ve been inured to these sorts of stupidity though. It is what it is. It’s when someone I know is intelligent starts making really stupid decisions. Decisions so colossally stupid that I’m left slack jawed and speechless. How the heck do you talk to these people? What do you say? Hmm, you just burned your house down because you didn’t like the colour of the paint in living room? Wow. You live in an apartment and can’t understand why your landlord threw you out for bringing home a pony? Yikes.

Faced with that sort of stupidity from otherwise intelligent people one has limited options. Rail at the stupidity that malignantly seems to run through the fabric of society… Weep for an intellect that seems to have gone the way of the dodo…

There’s no point trying to explain why their decision was so stupid or how they could get out of the trouble they are in. It’s like explaining a singularity to someone who’s never heard of a black hole or teaching a squid to tap dance. They just aren’t equipped anymore to understand what you’re saying…

Sigh… Or you can vent in your blog and not go gently into that dark night of stupidity… The Lemmings have it right. Now there is a race that knows what to do with it’s stupid people…