People behaving stupidly is certainly not the monopoly of late stage post industrial capitalist consumer society, but YE GODS we are dealing with some painfully foolish creatures. Now I'm not claiming that the previous epochs weren't drowning with dumb. What I'm arguing is that the idiocy is escalating with each baby thrown into this battle royale called humanity.
Case in point: Europe's buck wild attempt at global domination, followed by its even more hardcore attempt to kill everyone from Japan to England, was perhaps the largest test ever attempted and arguably the most idiotic thought to yet enter the human mindstream. The conclusion that seems to have been arrived at after all the data was gathered was that warfare among militaristic industrialized societies wasn't such a great idea after all. It produced a lot of technology, nationalism and bodies; but it was too risky because once they got their blood lust on it was hard to stop before everyone died due to the efficacy of the weapons. So it was decided to go back to what Europe had perfected over the previous century, slaughtering and robbing the less aggressive peoples of the planet (which is pretty much everyone) under the guise of free trade and a funny understanding of the term development.
I must say that I'm disappointed that we have regressed. After the grand spectacle of the Great Wars why go back to the petty imperialism of yesteryear? I think my man Debs had it right:
"How stupid and shortsighted the ruling class really is! Cupidity is stone blind. It has no vision. The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an "opening"; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and it can be secured, but vision he has none- not the slightest."
Despite all their power and wealth, the rich really are a bunch of redundant dipshits that are about as creative as a cancer cell. I would feel better about this fact if they weren't clearly smarter than everyone else on earth whom they manage to bend to their demented will. The sting wouldn't be so bad if they didn't justify it all with such impressively idiotic ideology:
"How stupid and shortsighted the ruling class really is! Cupidity is stone blind. It has no vision. The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an "opening"; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and it can be secured, but vision he has none- not the slightest."
Despite all their power and wealth, the rich really are a bunch of redundant dipshits that are about as creative as a cancer cell. I would feel better about this fact if they weren't clearly smarter than everyone else on earth whom they manage to bend to their demented will. The sting wouldn't be so bad if they didn't justify it all with such impressively idiotic ideology:
'We need to bomb a country to free them from themselves'
'Cutting support for the poor and lowering taxes on the rich is needed, especially when times are bad'
'Voting matters even if it has no effect on foreign policy or the economic system under which we live.'
I think that most citizens in the Imperial Nations know this is some seriously stinky putrid bullshit and don't really believe anything they are told by these fucktards. And yet they still pay taxes, consume with endless avarice and behave with staggering disregard for both people and planet. Guess ideology, like shit, flows downhill. My candidate for dumbest thing ever is when they decry their government and global injustice all the while knowing that they won't do a damn thing to help anyone if it threatens their living standard; perhaps this is the new development that the previous experiments have led us to- doublethink.
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