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Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity

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On 9/1/2021 1:29 AM,worthless loser Dalit Arindam Banerjee wrote:

> On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 13:44:14 UTC+10, Serg io wrote:
>> You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity from Wall Street Journal Aug 29 2021
>>
>> https://eppc.org/publication/you-are-living-in-the-golden-age-of-stupidity/
>>
>>
>> “Stupidity,” Jean Cocteau remarked, “is always amazing, no matter how used to it you become.”
>>
>> We live in a golden age of stupidity. It is everywhere. President Biden’s conduct of the withdrawal from Afghanistan will be remembered as a defining
>> stupidity of our time—one of many. The refusal of tens of millions of people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus will be analyzed as a
>> textbook case of stupidity en masse. Stupid is as stupid does, or, in the case of vaccination, as it doesn’t do. Stupidity and irresponsibility are evil
>> twins.
>>
>> The slow-motion zombies’ assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a fittingly stupid finale to the Trump years, which offered dueling stupidities: Buy one,
>> get one free. The political parties became locked in a four-year drama of hysteria and mutually demeaning abuse. Every buffoonery of the president and
>> his people was answered by an idiocy from the other side, which in its own style was just as sinister and just as clownish.
>>
>> Cable news provided the Greek chorus. American government and politics became cartoons. The Democrats, all unknowing, played Wile E. Coyote to Mr.
>> Trump’s Road Runner. Twice, the Democrats’ Acme Impeachment Committee rigged up the big bomb (heh heh), lit the fuse and held its ears. Both times, the
>> Road Runner sped away. Beep beep!
>>
>> “Trump is crazy!” “Trump is Hitler!” “Trump is a Russian agent!” “ Bob Mueller has the goods!” Beep beep!
>>
>> Stupidity has been in the air for quite some time. And alas, Mr. Trump isn’t going away soon; neither are Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff or Mazie Hirono
>> —each a paragon of the phenomenon.
>>
>> .....
>>
>> I’ve been working on a Unified Field Theory of Stupidity. My hypothesis: Stupidity dominates in our time because of the convergence of many seemingly
>> unrelated elements that—mixed together at one moment, in one cultural beaker—have produced a fatal explosion of brainlessness. What are those
>> ingredients? You will have your own list, of course.
>>
>> My nominees will seem eccentric at first. The subversion of manners and authority (two great casualties of the 1960s) prepared the way for the death of
>> privacy, which would eventually be ensured by the stupendously intrusive capabilities of Big Tech in the 21st century. Manners (and in a different way,
>> authority) depend on respect for the privacy of others, as well as one’s own. Manners depend on reticence, even mystery. When those ingrained
>> regulations, those protections of the individual mind, are gone, then you may open the floodgates to (among many other things) pornography, which is a
>> massively lucrative assault on individual dignity and collective decorum—an assault on the manners of a society and, if you will forgive my saying so,
>> on the divinity of the individual.
>>
>> The death of manners and privacy, I argue, are profoundly political facts that, combined with other facts, lead, eventually, to an entire civilization
>> of stupidity. It’s a short ride from stupidity to madness. Soon people aren’t quite people anymore; they are cartoons and categories. And “identities.”
>> The media grow feral. Genitals became weirdly public issues; the sexes subdivide into 100 genders. Ideologues extract sunbeams from cucumbers. They
>> engage in what amounts to an Oedipal rebellion against reality itself.
>>
>> At the Tower of Babel, the Lord—whatever his reasons—confounded the languages of the peoples of the world. I suspect he has found he can achieve the
>> same effect by making everyone stupid.
>>
>> Mr. Morrow is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His latest book is “God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money.”
> 
> None more stupid than the Einsteinians, and all their dupes who believe in global warming due to CO2 burnt by fossil fuels near the ground,  911 crash down NOT from explosives; Saddam's nukes,
> etc.

It has been 20+ years since 9-11. So if you're right, where are all the
results of nuclear fallout on NYC and nearby Long Island residents?

Wrong again on all counts, Dalit banerjee!

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You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2021-08-31 22:44 -0500
  Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 23:29 -0700
    Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 06:06 -0500
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 17:43 -0700
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 22:31 -0700
    Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-09-01 12:07 -0400
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 17:45 -0700
    Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 15:12 -0700
    Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 17:02 -0700
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 17:39 -0700
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 19:50 -0700
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 20:53 -0700
            Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 21:34 -0700
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 23:05 -0700
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-09-17 13:01 -0400
  Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Loughall Tomartyrs <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 09:51 -0700
    Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2021-09-01 13:42 -0500
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 11:52 -0700
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 15:10 -0500
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 14:19 -0700
            Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 18:25 -0500
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 17:45 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 19:50 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 18:06 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 21:03 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 19:27 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-02 07:01 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 05:22 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-02 11:11 -0500
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2021-09-01 20:28 -0500
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 18:43 -0700
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 21:15 -0500
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Loughall Tomatoes <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 12:41 -0700
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      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 15:08 -0500
      Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 16:51 -0700
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Loughall Tomatoes <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 17:46 -0700
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 20:03 -0500
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 20:17 -0700
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                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 18:53 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-13 22:23 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 21:05 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Bobby Smith <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 10:03 -0700
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                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 19:43 -0700
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          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 00:25 -0700
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-09-02 00:58 -0400
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 22:09 -0700
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              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 22:53 -0700
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