Morning, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between.
Hot black coffee.
The perception of stupidity.
Stupidity is a word I seldom use because it’s unfair most times. Ignorance is more accurate, or at least it used to be. Not anymore. Not in a world where you can actually escape ignorance with a click. Most of us live in places where you can do that so now is the time to face stupidity for what it is: our new reality.
In the era we live in, historians will one day conclude, stupidity came of age. Never before has information and knowledge been so readily available to most humans and yet here we are. Together with the exploit of the weakness of this universal access to knowledge that allows for the untamed spread of misinformation there is a recognition of it and it’s threat to power and so a virus was planted in it: artificial intelligence. The irony should not be lost on us.
At the very dawn of the age when human intelligence has all it needs to evolve at the tip of its fingers we are about to watch it being artificially replaced by a compliant model which may well become self aware, one day, and inevitably rule out the source of all problems: humanity. But for now, and the foreseeable future, there is still the perception it can be controlled. It will serve the purpose of those invested in replacing human intelligence to the benefit of global stupidity.
We wake up, every day, in this new reality where stupid took over already and we live in the few days left of the dying reality we thought we were living in - definitely the one we fought to “keep” - where reason and facts still mattered. Not anymore. These people parading themselves through Congress as they pretend to pitch their nominations for places of power are treated like they are not stupid but they really are. They represent this new reality.
The reason Fetterman came out of his office to shake hands with RFK Jr. is not because he doesn’t know he’s stupid but because he realizes how good that makes him look to the millions of stupids watching him do it. The old saying is true: you can’t fix stupid, and stupid is holding the cheque book now. There are always many ways to deal with reality. In this case, accepting it as just a normal thing is the most despicable one. The fact it’s real doesn’t mean it’s normal.
It is the very definition of normal that is in question, though. Once you normalize stupid, as Congress is doing (never mind the MSM), what was once normal becomes the anomaly. Notice there are no quotes on normal. It’s real and it’s a fact. For those of us who recognize this for what it is the fact the anomaly is the new reality becomes irrelevant. Another saying comes to mind: you can’t argue with these people.
We tend to rationalize why that is by defining them by old standards that no longer apply. We box them into the effects they produce as if they are well aware of them and governed by them. As if there is some rationale involved. Setting aside the master puppeteers, who do orchestrate this chaos and may be delusional but are smart, the rest of them follow no intelligent design. They’re just plain stupid with lots of “feelings”, the kind of which are not to be fucked with, unlike ours.
The fantasy world is now what we can remember of what the real world was like. Remember when some rich fuck presented the solution for poverty by saying poor people just needed to stop being poor and everyone rushed to their knowledge bases to find his rationale? There is no rationale. Embryos are persons, social security is a handout, vaccines cause autism and Jesus is Palestinian. Stop rationalizing these fucks. They are just stupid. Call it like it is.
We’re not working for some company run by an idiot supported by idiot managers with idiot colleagues we can just leave and look for better. This is it. It is spreading like a wild fire and soon all places will be infected by it. Just like AI will infect our knowledge pool, coal and oil infect our air and water, and greed infects our morality. Completely. There’s nowhere to run, thriends. We have to stand and fight because you sure can’t fix stupid but you can crush it.
The only catch is you need to acknowledge it’s stupidity you’re dealing with, first. Normalizing it is what’s going on and playing along is just… Well, stupid. That’s why I sigh watching Biden’s last interview (to Meidas Touch, I believe) where he clings to a reality that doesn’t exist anymore and it just looks… stupid. As stupid as legislating about bald eagles at this point or at any point. We are witnessing the metastasis of stupidity.
Sing with me: “Welcome to the shitshow, every single day; a new flavor of fuckery ‘cause everybody sucks, you see…” It’s no longer Idiocracy; it’s sheer stupidity. Democrat elected officials (everywhere) need to wake the fuck up and realize this. In time we will crush it but only if we stop helping to normalize it. It is no longer a question of preventing its normalization. That is unstoppable at this point. The lunatics are running the asylum and they’re not even inaugurated yet.
Yes, I know they are oligarch wannabes and fascist wannabes from top to bottom but what they really are is stupid. Poor Tim Walz was on to something when he called them “weird”. Hillary Clinton was closer when she called them “deplorable”. The word they were both reluctant to use is stupid. No quotes. Stupid is the new normal, my thriends. It’s not the economy, it’s the stupidity. It always was.
The government is about to shut down with the expectation the debt ceiling will be increased explicitly “on Biden’s watch” because that’s all that matters to the stupid. That’s the only reason why Republican voters are not beating up their own people in Congress and why they voted for losing their own healthcare and social security. Inside every single racist, misogynistic, antisemitic prick out there is a profoundly stupid human being and more of them came out to vote than we did.
This is it, folks. It finally came true and it can’t be fixed or reasoned with. It can only be crushed. Let’s hope our people in Congress realize that if we are to have half of a chance to regain control. If not… We’re royally fucked.
Welcome to the shitshow.
