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stupidity and intelligence, socialism and thought People exaggerate the short-term power of intelligence and under-estimate the super abundance of stupidity available in the world. The stupidity and selfishness of most dressed-up monkeys should never be forgotten. Dishonesty, shortsightedness and foolishness rule the herds. The herds bleat for a free lunch, while most farmers measure their stature in the sizes of their bank accounts. The farmers then infect the sheep with their vanities. Most people can never reach outside their skins, they believe that their own skins demarcate the bounds of the universe. Most people build their ‘beliefs’ around whatever justifies to their own vacuity and vanity. They grab onto fashions no differently than teens follow pop groups. They don’t go green on the basis of data and reasoning. They go green out of opportunism, and wear it like a new coat until they can find another newer fad. Socialism is, as Keynes put it:
With such a destructive emptiness in the head, why would you suppose its adherents have any time or place for independent thought? Opportunism and fashion is all that is left once you have pithed the spine. Socialists have been at it for at least 40 years. The socialist watermelons spent great efforts fighting nuclear power and put the world in the position of fire-fighting climate change in the first place. It’s they who undermined American will in Vietnam when the military battle was already won. It is they who tried to keep socialist Madsam in power in Iraq. And many of the rest are now expending much of their life’s effort in paying out for the parasites. Thought requires what most see as unnecessary effort. |
