Everyone is an idiot, not just people with low SAT scores. The only difference among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot
I proudly include myself in the idiot category, Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. Its a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
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I blame sex and paper for most of our current problems. Here's my logic: Only one person in a million is smart enough to invent a printing press. So when society consisted of only a few hundred apelike people living in caves, the odds of one of them being a genius were fairly low. But people kept having sex, and with every moron added to the population, the odds of a deviant smart-pants slipping through the genetic net higher and higher. When you've got several million people running around having sex all willy-nilly, the odds are faily good that some pregnant ape-mom is going to squat in a field someday and pinch out a printing-press-making deviant
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ReplyDeletewell said.
ReplyDeleteI think life is too complicated to be an idiot all the time, otherwise I would be glad to remain one :)
And, the modern society makes too many demands on us to act smart at least once in a while.
Any business school professor will tell you that the objective of business communication is the clear transfer of information. That's why professors rarely succeed in business.
ReplyDeleteThat was from the book. Im loving it!
"To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories : 1)things that need to be fixed, and 2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
ReplyDeleteNo engineer looks at a Tv remote control with out wondering what it would take to turn it to a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature poor toys. "