I think it’s too late.
I’ve missed the boat.
This isn’t going to make sense anymore.
Maybe we aren’t stupid anymore.
These were all thoughts I had back around January of this year.
I can’t remember exactly why but I suddenly felt like we were all getting collectively smarter.
This was generally good news for humankind…
but roundly terrible news for someone who had a book coming out called ‘Welcome To The Stupidpocalypse: Survival Tips for the Dumbageddon’.
Then, both thankfully and distressingly, it became apparent that we are in no danger of getting less stupid anytime soon.
Again, to clarify (as I do in the book), I’m not pointing at any one group and saying they’re stupid.
I’m gesturing wildly in all directions and yelling “We’re all stupid.”
Me thinking that perhaps society had turned a corner away from stupidity should really have reassured me immediately that my book was in no danger… what with the thought society wouldn’t remain stupid being an absolutely stupid thought itself.
A quick look at the news is enough to reassure anyone that people are still stupid…
The Premier of Ontario here in Canada said in opposition to trans-kids being protected and supported on a case by case basis recently, “It's not up to the school boards to indoctrinate our kids” and then heroically finished up with “I can't even figure out what school boards do nowadays, by the way.”
The first sentence is an evidently stupid sentence.
His is own second sentence looks over at you, winks, nods and says “You betcha, this is super stupid.”
Yet many of us lapped it up.
Because we worry about our kids.
Worrying about our kids is not stupid.
Ignoring the stupidity in the premier’s finger pointing bluster is stupid.
Because his tactics, it would seem, have very little to do with actually protecting kids and more to do with making us angry with school boards and teachers as a teachers’ strike looms on the horizon.
It is widely known that school boards are where resolutions go to die.
Especially public school boards.
Even the Catholic school boards, who technically actually are in the indoctrination game, aren’t that great at indoctrination because they’re made up of a bunch of people.
History has shown us that almost anything comprised of a bunch of people will have great difficulty in deciding who goes for lunch first never mind agreeing on what kind of indoctrination they wish to pursue.
People are stupid.
A thing comprised of a bunch of people is a comprised of a bunch of stupid.
HIstory is also jam packed with people who have absolutely depended on us being stupid.
People who have clawed for power and preyed on the fact that we probably won’t bother fact checking them… or even pause to give their arguments and rousing statements a second thought.
This is all, of course, obvious.
Yet some of us still fall for it.
Because we’re all stupid.
And that makes some people happy.
Unrelated: Pre-order my book ‘Welcome to the Stupidpocalypse: Survival Tips for the Dumbageddon’ here: Stupidpocalypse.com
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It should be noted most people are stupid for at least 15 min every day. Then there are those gifted people who can hold stupid all day long.
Unfortunately there are really stupid people out there who are making a virtue out of stupidity. They actually think it is endearing that Ford is the uninformed, uneducated, unread, unthinking person that he is .