http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/06/1382840/-The-unbearable-dumbness-of-American-as-holery?detail=email
Fight dumbassery everywhere you see it. We've been way too tolerant.
Sure, it's your right to say whatever you want no matter how stupid or hateful, but is it a good idea? Are you doing yourself or society any favors? It's your perfect right to be an idiot but your idiocy, once loosed upon the general public, is another matter. You don't have the moral right to make other people suffer because you're stupid. Sometimes life is about more than what you have a right to do, but what you should or shouldn't do within the context of civilized society – which I submit, we should be aiming for. Civilization seems a worthy goal at this point.
America should be ashamed of producing so many stupid people. Virtually every one of whom has or had the potential to shine, and it was just never realized because we as a society are neglectful, especially of the poor and working classes. We do not have universal education any more than we have universal health care. In many cases, the poor just have a pipeline to prison.
There are aspects of our society, such as the failure to provide high quality education and social support to all, that encourage a culture of dumbassery. Think Confederate flag. Think prophet cartoons. Think sheer ignorance and cultural insensitivity.
I think virtually every human has the innate capacity to rise above such cultural backwardness. I think they have Ferrari brains like everyone else, they just never learn to shift gears. No one teaches them. They spend their whole lives driving a Ferrari poorly and never get it out of first gear. In that state, they are susceptible to dumbassery.
Two people are dead and one wounded because a bunch of dumbass macho yahoos down in Texas (who could have been so much more) thought it'd be cute to have a 'draw the prophet' contest...to prove they weren't afraid of Sharia law and shit.
i know it makes it harder to get through the wall of ignorance especially when calling those who oppose names but can you really target a group if you don't designate it by it's characteristic words and acts of a topic? we all do it because it's necessary to make clear who you are talking about. none f us invented words so until we do we are stuck with what we know.
those who are of the kind discussed will mostly not admit it's relevance to them so it goes ignored and they are where they are for however more years. not saying be like me but i refuse to allow myself to lie tio myself own it if it's yours to own than it becomes controllable making for a better society ignore it like history and it will repeat itself. recognize being cute is for baby pictures not a road map to life
