You've got at least one reader, here, but I figure your fellow citizens are entertaining enough without me adding to the general level of cluelessness. Thinking about this topic, though: this reminded me of reading Tolkien and just being bored with the Elves after a while because they were too damn perfect. The hobbits, however, were courageous and stupid and whiny and undaunted and just a hell of a lot more fun, because they made the story about US. So, yeah. People are just idiots a lot of the time. But that's the way we are. Even God didn't succeed in wiping out the stupid, according to the stories. In fact, if my sunday school teachers were right about Adam and Eve eating an apple from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, then that's where the whole stupidity problem started. They should never have taken that one bite. They should have eaten the whole damn tree!
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Date: 27 Nov 2012 02:08 am (UTC)Thinking about this topic, though: this reminded me of reading Tolkien and just being bored with the Elves after a while because they were too damn perfect. The hobbits, however, were courageous and stupid and whiny and undaunted and just a hell of a lot more fun, because they made the story about US.
So, yeah. People are just idiots a lot of the time. But that's the way we are. Even God didn't succeed in wiping out the stupid, according to the stories. In fact, if my sunday school teachers were right about Adam and Eve eating an apple from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, then that's where the whole stupidity problem started. They should never have taken that one bite. They should have eaten the whole damn tree!