Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Hell CC, I was saying everything you are 15 years ago - and I thought I was an original thinker at the time too! Take heart, you write much more eloquently than I did.
May I present my theory? We touched on this in your recent religion post:
Science and technology are not only negating some of the oldest human values, taboos and morals - it is also sticking it squarely up Darwin's ass.
Consider: in old days stupid mouthy people entertained the rest of us by being burnt at the stake, boiled in oil, fired off catapaults and having their heads adorn spikes on castle walls.
As science and technology progressed, we became industrialized and stupid mouthy people were put to work digging ditches and providing manual labour for their betters - or they starved to death.
Today there is so much wealth and surplus that even idiots can do well. In fact, some of our modern societies actively select for stupidity as a desireable survival trait - I submit Sean Penn and Al Baldwin for proof. It's not just Hollywood; look at your nation's capital: Barkie Obutthole, whatsis name with the Weiner, Teddy Kennedy, Al Gore...hell, we can't even pretend that any of these men are intelligent at all.
Liberalism is the credo of stupid people for the most part today. They are so feeble minded, they see guys like US as stupid people. Yet they cannot change their oil, or a tire, or set their VCR's or make their WiFi work...we have truly achieved a (temporarily) functional state of idiocracy!
I submit they die unhappy thinking that they were unable to win those crusades...and they probably blame us for it. In my scholarly opinion those people aren't smart enough to see that those crusades weren't winnable to begin with. They're born stupid, most of 'em will die stupid too!
The coming Decline will put quite a few things right, actually. You will see stupid people working back in the ditches and the slums - and not in the Whitehouse. Willful stupidity will become a thing of the past.
Sep 30, 2011, 2:29:03 PM
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