OWNED: The Only Constant (Is The Fat-Skinny Bitch With A Fondness For Lies)

2021 - Victor Davis Hanson: "An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason". 

2017 - Fantasyland (How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History): "What's happening in our country today - this strange, post-factual, "fake news" moment - is the ultimate expression of our national character,..." 

2006 - Idiocracy: "Private Joe Bauers is selected for a top-secret hibernation program. He awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society incredibly dumbed down..." 

2005 - The Age Of Unreason: "Loss of authority led to an uncritical acceptance of banal, morally illiterate lifestyle gurus, psychics and astrologers" 

2005 - How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (A Short History of Modern Delusions): "What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. There has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA."

2004 - Idiot Proof (A Short History Of Modern Delusions): "What colonized the space vacated by history, progress and reason? An epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library." 

Dim Bulbs Trying To Brighten My Day (With Electrolytes)

When I see wall-to-wall coverage of a birth, by an (O.J.-connected) woman so talentless I'm not sure if she's capable of forming a coherent sentence - and a guy even the President of the United States called a "jackass" - I'm pretty sure the media's already accepted it's role as merely a device to track the nation's descent into Idiocracy.

Now it's our turn,...

It's A Future Shock: Mike Judge Is NOT A Twig Boy

Cool:

In conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' move to the center, he got the great Mike Judge to sit down for an extended chat, put it online, and - lo and behold - Judge turns out to be,...normal (Normals, commenting on the rest, might be The Next Big Thing one day,...). 

This is the interview where Judge admits Michael Moore's deception, in Bowling For Columbine, turned him against gun control. There's also comments on South Park, as well as Judge's own creations, Beavis & Butthead, King Of The Hill, Office Space, and Idiocracy. 

And they're all sane. 

Even when Judge gets into (or out of) politics, which has to be the strangest thing about the entire talk, since it is on Alex Jones' show. I was waiting for the crazy, and it never came. Now I'm smiling:

This image of success - as opposed to the mainstream's - is very comforting,...

 

TMRs Favorite E-Mail Of The Day

"To the The Crack Emcee, 



How about we call it what it is from now on. Stupidity. I'm not willing to struggle with the cognitive dissonance of 'They're intelligent BUT'.. or 'They're smart..BUT'. 



That your co-workers have cars and responsibilities doesn't mean they aren't dumb. They are in fact dumb and stupid, and will likely remain so.



And well-to-do has no direct relationship with very smart. Stupid people can be TRAINED to do most things, even brain surgery. This appears to make them look intelligent, but it is only TRAINING. As you pointed out about your new friends, 'they know very little outside of how to make it there'. 



Stupidity should not be confused with poor memory, poor immediate recall or lack of information or facts due to lack of exposure to the subject.



You can spot the stupid by the reaction to supplied missing information. The stupid will be left confused, bewildered or blank, and you rarely see the light bulb come on to some simple thing they didn't know before.



Couple that with incredible tenacity in clinging to the absolutely absurd, and you have stupid to the tenth power, known as 'NewAge'.



Consider this definition of stupidity from Wikipedia;



..stupidity denotes an incapability or unwillingness to properly consider the relevant information.



And this:



Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, pg A133/B172; tr. J.M.D. Meiklejohn; Paul Guyer (1998) translation:



'The lack of the power of judgment is that which is properly called stupidity, and such a failing is not to be helped. A dull or limited head, which is lacking nothing but the appropriate degre [sic] of understanding and its proper concepts, may well be trained through instruction, even to the point of becoming learned. But since it would usually still lack the power of judgment (the secunda Petri), it is not at all uncommon to encounter very learned men who in the use of their science frequently give glimpses of that lack, which is never to be ameliorated.'



You were the only one in your group of friends that day (and everyday, judging by your excellent site) that isn't stupid. Car or no car.



By the way, have you seen the movie 'Idiocracy'? I used to think it was an amusing comedy but I now see it as a documentary."

-- "JRN", immediately getting on my good side, in TMR's comment section.

By the way, JRN: I've only seen part of " 'Idiocracy" but I'll check it out on your recommendation (that was a recommendation, wasn't it?) and, dude, thanks for the punch in the arm - I really needed it.