revelations

 

I've been thinking for awhile that Donald Trump becoming President of the United States of Addiction was a harbinger of absurdities to come because very simply, if that could happen, anything can happen. And it certainly has been. That seemed to be the moment we stepped over the line and down the rabbit hole. Good and evil are not entities but one trend seems to be the rise of stupid. Stupid dominates “the media” and having poured into peoples' eyes and ears, it frequently pours back out their mouths. And proudly so, proud to be an orifice for spewing digital thought. It reminds me of a line from The Flight of the Phoenix leveled at the main character - “You have made ignorance a virtue.”

But then I remembered that stupid has been romping about since the hayday of George Bush. That was when Americans started to seem able to swallow and parrot any illogical, nonsensical malarkey if it came to them from on high. Jabberwocky like “George Bush (the man who presided over the only foreign attack on the continental U.S. in over 200 years) kept America safe,” went absolutely unchallenged by anybody with a large audience until, ironically, the current dufus pointed out how ridiculous that claim was. I personally almost went insane from hearing men say, “I'm sure glad Al Gore wasn't president when that happened.” Why??? Because he would have handled it worse?

So now I'm thinking 2000 marks the rise of stupid in the U.S. A lot of people thought O'bama meant a fresh start but apparently that was only an intermission.

Interestingly, all this stupid lies solely in the realm of subjects covered by “the media.” Politics has become a battleground for a dependant, wage enslaved, voyeuristic people who live the same day and even the same tv shows and now already decided football games, over and over again with no risks and no glory, deprived of real combat in life and sorely in need of it. Probably with no new football, manly men will become even more invested in their political beliefs to carry them there. Say what you want about peace, it can be found only in victory. The Klingons are us, not the Federation.

In all the important intellectual areas, the personal, independent thoughts and experiences that can't be covered on the web, people still speak and behave normally. As nature intended it. She always wins in the end.

So it's not that Americans themselves are more stupider these days. They just say more stupider thingaroos and are louder bullhornier so other people more hear it. It's the peopler times we virate in. It's a game.