The stupid people are out-breeding the smart people by like 200 to 1 and it is going to take a natural fucking disaster of Biblical proportions to even the odds.
Let me explain how I got there.
It is a tragic truth that stupidity and ignorance have become the societal norm in American culture. One cannot explain the synopsis of Jersey Shore without first viciously slamming their face into a wall to knock a few brain cells loose to ensure that no words containing more than 2 syllables are used. Anything involving anything remotely Kardashian? Pathetic. The Kei$sha, Drake, Beiber pop music scene? Idiotic. With the plethora of intellectual movies at our disposal I am simply dumbfounded that the horribly juvenile and Disney-ish Twilight Saga remains the king. Harry Potter has more substance and that's kind of sad.
Harry Potter was written for children. Don't fight it. Just accept it. Twilight was written for preteen girls. If you are a guy and you like it, you are probably gay. Don't fight it. Just accept it.
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With every passing conversation we are reminded that as someone who strives to achieve intellectual enlightenment we are the minority. When what starts out as a plan to visit an exhibit displaying the newest archaeological finds on subject X, Y or Z quickly deteriorates into, "Let's go watch airplanes fly in the sky!" it hurts in my soul.
And none of this is disputed. For the most part everyone likes to think that they are decently intelligent. These are the same people who use "know" instead of "now" or "no" and end every other sentence with a misplaced dot dot dot. But that's not the point. Nobody wants to admit that they are slowly circling the drain into mental retardation and that's probably because most people don't know that "mental retardation" is not a derogatory term. That's like telling a stripper she made bad life choices. It's not an insult, it's just the way it is.
So where do we lay the blame then? Surely in America we can find SOMEBODY to blame. The obvious first stop on the blame train is the educational system in our public schools. They would confute any arguments with standardized test scores and levels of extra curricular activity participation. Impressive enough. However these are the same schools that make you drive twenty miles per hour so that you don't run over the 14 year old crack fiends who barely pass English class while chewing on erasers. How the HELL do you almost fail your own language? How is that even possible? What other language could you possibly know that confused you so much that you couldn't even bullshit your way through a paper like everyone else? Unless your parents are crackerjack white and you can speak fluent Zimbabwean I have to wonder if the short bus was full that year. But back to the speed zones. They have to stop. If your child is 14 and has not figured out how not to get hit by a car it may be time to let Darwinism do its thing. Don't stand in front of things that are bigger than you when they are moving. How is that not obvious?
Do we lay the blame with the parents? I think it truly depends on the generation. Our generation grew up with imaginations and bloody knees. Playing outside was glorious and coming in for dinner was punishment. Now children are punished by being forced outside to interact with other children. Any chances of aliens discovering the ruins of our culture thousands of years from now and saying, "Hey wow these guys were pretty damn intellectual!" goes right out the window after my generation dies. There will be no authors. There will be no artists. There will be no composers. There will only be horrible hipster stick figure drawing self-diagnosed ADD having pill heads who carry a sense of self worth that is so falsely inflated it may have had everything to do with whatever catastrophic events ends our civilizations forever. Why? Because Stephen King has 126 NY Times best sellers and Kei$ha has more money. Fuck it. Because Stephen King has best sellers period. How the hell does an ugly ass chubby chick sing songs about how hot she is and nobody says anything but Kim Kardashian has a fake marriage and we flip the fuck out? Did you really think that was about love? Seriously? You kinda just proved my entire point.
We live in a time when having an intellectual debate on philosophy, history or science is "a rare treat" and for whatever reason we only date people who will never EVER be able to have a conversation like that with us. It's like we are genetically hardwired to only breed stupid from here on out and that's why I'm a big advocate of the avian flu. The stupid people are out-breeding the smart people by like 200 to 1 and it is going to take a natural fucking disaster of Biblical proportions to even the odds. Bring on the floods Moses, I'm smart enough to use parts of my fence as a boat. It's the guy next door who'll be wading chest deep in water holding an umbrella and taping straws to his kids noses so they can "breathe like elephants when they float on their backs" who you need to be focusing on.
