I feel confident that most of my current friends are fairly smart, rational, and responsible.
When I think about my peers in general I am decidedly less convinced.
This wouldn’t be an issue on its own.
The world needs idiots. Without them who would buy extended warranties?
However this cognitive deficit has become an issue for one terrifying reason…
These morons are running the world.
Absolute imbeciles.
Growing old is a chore but one that comes, usually, with great reward.
What they don’t tell you about growing old is that you live long enough to see the buffoons you went to school with pulling and pushing the world’s levers.
That kid in grade 5 who set fire to his desk by accident while playing with matches?
He’s probably in charge of national security.
That girl who drank a bottle of cherry whiskey at the school dance and then pogoed until she puked while everyone danced to Modern Love?
She probably in charge of the economy.
Sure, people grow and learn and change but… they’re still the same people.
It’s too easy to believe that politicians and business leaders are smarter, more rational, and more responsible than the rest of us.
Of course, that’s not true.
They’re idiots just like you and me… and sometimes more so.
This realization has both comforted and terrified me.
Hopefully it does the same for you.
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