Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity

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Subject	Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity
Date	2021-09-01 21:16 -0500
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On 9/1/2021 8:35 PM, Serg io wrote:
> On 9/1/2021 6:51 PM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
>> On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 04:42:59 UTC+10, Serg io wrote:
>>> On 9/1/2021 11:51 AM, Loughall Tomartyrs wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 8:44:14 PM UTC-7, 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.”
>>>>
>>>> That seems to be the case.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iq-rates-are-dropping-many-developed-countries-doesn-t-bode-ncna1008576
>>>>
>>>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/04/29/technology-is-on-the-rise-while-iq-is-on-the-decline/?sh=3c85332db103
>>>>
>>>> An Evil Brit (TM) called Galton invented something called Eugenics, which was very popular in Britain
>>>> for many years. Churchill briefly supported the idea, and so did the left; for example, George B. Shaw
>>>> (the socialist playwright) wanted to get rid of mentally ill people from British society using gas
>>>> chambers. Fortunately, this wicked idea was stopped by Josiah Wedgewood MP.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/eugenics-skeleton-rattles-loudest-closet-left
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997
>>>>
>>>> In some foreign countries; however, mass sterilization programmes were implemented to get rid of
>>>> disadvantaged people, like in beautiful India.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=India+sterilization
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790
>>>> 'An astonishing 6.2 million Indian men were sterilised in just a year, which was "15 times the number of people sterilised by the Nazis", according to science journalist Mara Hvistendahl.'
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I was wondering if the IQ of India has gone up because of these sterilizations?
>>>
>>>
>> let us have peace and ice cream, is the cry.
> 
> 
> India is growing very fast, improving fast, they are the go to place for many Tech areas now, lots of Software, they are building new train lines, new
> expressways...
> 
> One company I worked for here in USA, a startup about 150 employees, a SW integration company, we had 70 Indian Engineers, they were all very smart, and
> quick.

Yet regardless of the growth in India, they were here, right?

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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
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Andy Everett <andyeverett57@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 12:47 -0700
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Loughall Tomatoes <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 14:39 -0700
      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
            Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 22:55 -0500
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Bobby Smith <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 16:43 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Bobby Smith <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 17:38 -0700
                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
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 15:16 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 19:22 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-13 22:26 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 21:06 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-13 23:44 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 22:36 -0700
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                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 12:23 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 16:23 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 17:49 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 19:43 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 11:13 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 19:54 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 22:01 -0500
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                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 22:17 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 15:00 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-16 17:51 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 16:36 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-16 19:35 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 20:04 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 22:12 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 22:00 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 01:22 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 23:51 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 12:59 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 15:40 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 13:10 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 14:59 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 11:45 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 11:56 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 12:34 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 16:14 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Plain dumb <tsp2opt@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 15:00 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 18:02 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 19:52 -0700
        Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2021-09-01 20:35 -0500
          Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 21:16 -0500
            Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2021-09-01 22:14 -0500
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-01 23:00 -0500
          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
            Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-09-02 01:44 -0400
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 22:53 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-09-02 09:04 -0400
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-02 15:54 -0500
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 15:03 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 16:22 -0700
                Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 15:00 -0700
              Re: You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-02 07:05 -0500
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