Sabre Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 -Assuming they think at all.People do sometimes do dumb thing, and by sometimes I mean constantly.From those 'rebals without a clue' who telegraph that they smoke while leaning on a No Smoking sign (ooh, edgy. You show that system) to fully grown people so brain dead they litterally stop in the street, point and say "Big Man". (Yes. I am big, and a man. How observant.)Last time I mentioned this I had people saying how dangerous my ideas were, and basicly got a wagging finger of bad taste, I assume due to recent American event at the time. Well, now it's back for you to share your own stories of the stupid as well as discuss the idea of the idiocracy (the idea that the vast majority of people are unwilling or unable to think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 As much as I would love to agree with you and go on a big anti-stupid rant and all that good jazz, I just can't bring myself to believe that the vast majority of people are stupid. We've got billions of people on the Earth, so there's bound to be an impressive amount of idiocy by that merit alone, but I have faith in the human race. That all being said, this faith I have is just that: faith. My experiences with people are limited to high school and the Internet, so I have definitely been subject to copious amounts of idiocy in my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiLdShOt Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 7.5 billion humans exist. I wish I were born another animal! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkyway64 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Like Xort said, I don't honestly think people are as stupid as everyone thinks. There's some real idiots out there, maybe even making up the majority of the population, but do remember that it's really, really difficult to be one dimensional. Everyone has a functioning brain, so they all have the potential to not be dumb. I think everyone just sorta assumes they are "above average" intelligence and thus arrogantly believe their fellow humans are below them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiLdShOt Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Like Xort said, I don't honestly think people are as stupid as everyone thinks. There's some real idiots out there, maybe even making up the majority of the population, but do remember that it's really, really difficult to be one dimensional. Everyone has a functioning brain, so they all have the potential to not be dumb. I think everyone just sorta assumes they are "above average" intelligence and thus arrogantly believe their fellow humans are below them.You mean like an electronics technician retired from the Navy or something fails a lot of things about a basic I.Q. test and was dedicated stupid but gets a job in Walt DisneyWorld and makes $50 an hour working on special effects as for a scientist who has all these college degrees and diplomas . . . but couldn't find a job afterwards???(People are smart for one thing as they are stupid for another?)because if that's the case, I agree. I'm smart on vocabulary and I make books (that never get published ) but I'm the most horrible person for mathematics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I like to think we're 50/50 smart and stupid.The problem is the stupid ones yell louder. Media sensationalism eats that shit up, but -good- or -intelligent- deeds go unnoticed because unless its a moon landing or something, its not good shmuck bait.And even then, look at the coverage on political scandals VS say.... what astronauts do on their space routines. Both are "mundane" and predictable, but who gets more coverage? The scandals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticQuery Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 The problem is the stupid ones yell louder. Media sensationalism eats that shit up, but -good- or -intelligent- deeds go unnoticed because unless its a moon landing or something, its not good shmuck bait.And even then, look at the coverage on political scandals VS say.... what astronauts do on their space routines. Both are "mundane" and predictable, but who gets more coverage? The scandals.Exactly; people are quite dumb at times, but the knowledge of the situation is not helped by the fact that the media over-blows every single scandal, stupid act, etc, rather than reporting on the upside of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiLdShOt Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 It's like a commercial to Tylenol PM. "Hmm Tylenol PM beats Advil by 24 hours a day on a single dose and Advil needs 5 doses! Why am I still here deciding!?" (*goes to counter to pay, commercial ends*) "$24.00, sir." "WHAT!? Advil was only $5.00!" bottom line, if they told you good stuff to bad news, you won't use your hatred to get interested as much. If something tells you what good a product is and they don't tell you the bads to it, IT SELLS MORE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Hand picking the worst examples gives you a list of hand-picked bad examples.Failblog is more popular than winblog.There are lots of news channels dedicated to 24/7 bad news. There are no news channels devoted to good news.Conclusion: People like to complain and think the world is ending, in some form or another. Doesn't mean that it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulvokunvrii Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 it would be cool if i was another animal instrad of being human...but we can drea right ? ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Problem with that belief is that, as you said, there is no good news channels. There is no option. Take reality TV, it's the most popular thing on TV not because it's good, but because there is nothing else. It's all the channels make because it's cheap to make, and they can make a profit. Even the BBC which you have to pay for by law has only 2 programs most people I know like, and thats because they appeared before the reality tv thing kicked off."There is no market for anything else" doesn't hold up as a reason either because most people of my generation don't bother with news, and the popularity of internet programs shows that a guy in his bed room with a camcorder and a NES can make better entertainment then a multi million pound channel. Someone isn't pulling their weight. Of course why put any effort when the masses will eat anything put in front of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 After the stupidity of the caues of the gulf oil spill, I'm not surprised... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha Weltzin Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 After the stupidity of the caues of the gulf oil spill, I'm not surprised...That was less caused by stupidity and more by laziness, cost-cutting, and short-sightedness. If people were stupid, the oil wells couldn't have been drilled in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticQuery Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 and more by laziness, cost-cutting, and short-sightednessBut couldn't this be argued as overall stupidity, as they did not bother to consider how it would turn out in the long run? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha Weltzin Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 But couldn't this be argued as overall stupidity, as they did not bother to consider how it would turn out in the long run? It could be, sure, but that makes the affirmative side way too easy by including every living creature in human knowledge. You lowered the bar too much for the definition of "stupidity." Sure, those are stupid things, but they don't necessarily make the person stupid. Incompetent, sure, but perhaps we need to identify exactly what "stupid" or "dumb" entail. Otherwise we're gonna be arguing different definitions and degrees, and it'll be impossible to have a structured debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 But couldn't this be argued as overall stupidity, as they did not bother to consider how it would turn out in the long run? No.stupid |?st(y)o?pid|adjective ( -pider, -pidest)lacking intelligence or common senseNo human lacks intelligence (even retarded people are smarter than the vast majority of animals, I know, I'm related to a retarded person), and most have reasonably good common sense (else it would not be common). Highly intelligent people can make stupid decisions occasionally. Highly ignorant and uneducated people can achieve the best solution to a problem occasionally. Let's not generalize a person by one or two actions. Let's rank the actions in their own regard: "That was a stupid decision, that was a smart decision." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrilwood Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 In the wise words of Gary Gygax, "Wisdom is not to be confused with Intelligence" Humans are extremely intelligent, no doubt about that. But as far as actual wisdom is concerned, they haven't really evolved much from the witch burning peasants. I guess they have improved marginally with this radical concept of "Free Will", but apart from that nothing has changed. They're still as impulsive and impressionable as they were 800 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 Do people do dumb stuff on purpose, or do they just not think about anything at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asper Sarnoff Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Do people do dumb stuff on purpose, or do they just not think about anything at all? Varies. Healthy mixture of both going around I pressume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hand picking the worst examples gives you a list of hand-picked bad examples. Failblog is more popular than winblog. There are lots of news channels dedicated to 24/7 bad news. There are no news channels devoted to good news. Conclusion: People like to complain and think the world is ending, in some form or another. Doesn't mean that it is. ^ I was going to say something but he said it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Fox 05 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I would have to say that most people are not stupid on the inside, just that most of them are defined as "stupid" because of their actions. Many people do stupid things to become famous and/or to get attention. For example, several of my friends were debating over the Rangers vs. Devils hockey game last week. Only one was a Devils fan (I'll call him Friend A), who was standing firm that the Devils were better, and was actually doing so with some sound logic. Another one of my friends (Friend B) told him that the Devils suck, and Friend A asked him if he actually knew anything about hockey. Friend B was left to stutter while everyone else called him an idiot and should just stop talking. My point being, Friend B said what he did to get attention and to be on the "winning" side, but in reality I know him to be actually pretty smart. People do stupid things not because they don't know any better (though this is sometimes the case) but because of some other reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sluggsnipa Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 -Assuming they think at all. People do sometimes do dumb thing, and by sometimes I mean constantly. From those 'rebals without a clue' who telegraph that they smoke while leaning on a No Smoking sign (ooh, edgy. You show that system) to fully grown people so brain dead they litterally stop in the street, point and say "Big Man". (Yes. I am big, and a man. How observant.) Last time I mentioned this I had people saying how dangerous my ideas were, and basicly got a wagging finger of bad taste, I assume due to recent American event at the time. Well, now it's back for you to share your own stories of the stupid as well as discuss the idea of the idiocracy (the idea that the vast majority of people are unwilling or unable to think) Sabre,you are proved right due to the single fact that Beiber has fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konchaski Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Exactly; people are quite dumb at times, but the knowledge of the situation is not helped by the fact that the media over-blows every single scandal, stupid act, etc, rather than reporting on the upside of things. Pretty much this: the Media in this country probably the worst source of misinformation which is why I mostly look to the internet or even other countries news. They have at least some journalistic integrity and hit the real issues in their articles: that often companies in the US don't hit. The issue is a lot of the population just believes a lot what is told to them: Regardless of their stances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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