We Can Fix Stupid

Really?  You can't fix stupid?

Perhaps at least we can work to prevent it.

There's too many stories in the news everyday regarding stupid.  We encounter stupid everywhere: walking down the street, in our spiritual organizations, in restaurants, on school boards, city councils, in local county, state and federal government, in our media, at our jobs, in our clubs, trolling on social media, and even at our kid's soccer games.

So if we can't stupid, we're all really screwed. No wonder Elon Musk is working so hard and fast to colonize Mars.

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense.--Wikipedia

Seriously. We have to fix stupid.

No, for real. If you care about the future of our species I implore you to consider it may be time to stop sitting on the sidelines, sharing the stories on Facebook, and having a good laugh.

It may very well be true we can't fix stupid but at the very least we must take matters into our own hands to ensure the stupid become a dwindling class.

Start with promoting and supporting all forms education, over communicate, take risks, vote for the well-informed, report stupidity, blog, protest, expect proper grammar, join a group, start a movement, write a book, and most of all, remember:

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.--Albert Einstein

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.--Michel de Montaigne

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.--Michael Moore

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.--Frank Zappa

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Indoctrination is long been the modus operandi for organized religion, oppressive governments, ideological fundamentalists, and the rich & powerful. Why?

Indoctrination is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology... [as distinguished] from education, claiming that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned.--Wikipedia

By suppressing information and education accessible to the common people an elite charter is kept in place. To put it another way, it is easier to spread disinformation, fear and violence among an uneducated populace who are too afraid and too ill-informed to effectively disrupt the delicate imbalance that girds the status quo.

Malala Yousafzai has become the personification of the extreme measures to suppress education. She survived being shot in the head by local Taliban who had banned girls from attending school. She is now an activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Her advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

And now, we have the massive march in Paris, where over a million protesters have decided to act in opposition to the tactics of the Islamist fundamentalists. (see my Jan 8th blog -- I Am Charlie) And, in concert, The Huffington Post just released the cover for next issue of Charlie Hebdo.  Millions have taken action to say they are not afraid.

These events are a warning to all of us to be alert to anyone who shuns science, suppresses education, stifles progress or discourages change -- all to keep us in the dark.

Change this.

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