Daily prayer
(midwest.social)
Lucy [she/faer]
196From I love Amy
Unfortunately for this girl (and for everyone else) all countries are mostly made up of stupid people.
Didn’t I read just yesterday that Iranian women have 5x more university degrees in stem subjects than US women?
Spoiler alert: Most people are dumb.
Americans on hearing a British accent: “wow, they must be so much more intelligent and cultured than us!”
Britons: “I’d be fine with migrants if they came here to work instead of just stealing all the jobs. Also, I wonder how many Creme Eggs I can fit up my bum”
They arrested their pedo.
You say that like they only had one.
And let him out right after.
They aren't
Nooooo, God is answering her prayer and making americans even dumber!
People in other countries are not dumb and neither are Americans.
Making decisions as a collective and on a national level is really difficult. Americans' voices are just amplified because they dominate media and the economy. This is further amplified by the fact that the state and structures support perverse incentives and systematically reward people for not acting in collective interest.
Thinking you're smart and everyone else is dumb is such immature "I'm 14 and this is deep" kinda bullshit that it really makes me think negatively of any person expressing this opinion. Stop blaming people (who are your peers and neighbours and community) and start blaming leaders and systems.
But I guess none of this makes for a quick, funny meme.
68% of them are stupid or evil or both. I can blame both them and leadership at the same time.
Why should I forgive them? Honest question.
This is a real measurable phenomenon.
65% of Americans think they have above average intelligence. People who are smart downgrade their own intelligence, slightly. People who are idiots greatly over estimate their intelligence. The deltas are separated by multiple magnitudes.
A more mundane version of this, 85% of drivers think they are above average drivers.
If you cannot surmise from this that most people are actually less smart than they think, the most polite way I can put that is that the problem is not with those who are calling out the issue. A quarter of society is unable to recognize they are below average.
That is real problem. It is serious problem. It's made worse because a large chunk of society is composed of stupid people thinking they are smarter than the smart people. This isn't new. It is not imagined. It is not exaggerated. It is measurable. It is very real.
Denialists doom us all because stupid people glob to their comforting lies.
A person can be smart. "People" are not. Groupthink changes a person, especially when tribalism is involved. The masses are easily led by "us vs. them" narratives.
It is a literal child thinking this in the story
and neither are Americans.
The majority of adults in your country can't read above a 6th grade level. About 25% of adults are functionally illerate.
Might want to rethink that opening line.
It's a joke.
She knows there is no God. She's an absurdist
...you just don't get it
Nah, just remember that half the worlds population is below average intelligence and most of the rest are barely above average.
This is inaccurate; only a minority of people are meaningfully less "intelligent" and it's rarely those people who are the real problem. The problem isn't intelligence, but the foolishness of people unable to see past their own biases or think critically.
The problem isn’t intelligence, but the foolishness of people unable to see past their own biases or think critically.
"The problem isn't stupid people, its dumb people."
That has little to do with being unintelligent
Being unable to think critically doesn't mean someone is unintelligent?
The inability to see past their own bias (or at least show the capacity to actually try) isn't unintelligent?
Being able to do those things, by my own measure, is arguably one of the prerequisites for intellect. Those things and curiosity of course.
I'm telling you, I've seen otherwise brilliant people say the dumbest shit. The world is hard to understand in the first place and it's often too scary to face the facts.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
It 100% is, but you usually need to be rich.
Ignorance is bliss until consequences kick in
Ignorance is still bliss, it's just that consequences are the thing that stop you from being ignorant that something is wrong.
The ignorant are happy, until it hurts.
Because the limited bliss from ignorance is overwhelmed by the surrounding mass of other People's ignorance pressing in.
Yeah, this mod only works in single player mode, in multiplayer suddenly everyone's ignorance breaks everyone else's bliss
I do think a strong education system can make a difference.
We aren't.
How so?
I am sorry to disappoint.
Brexit has entered the chat
God here: sorry kid, I distributed stupid people equally around the globe.
And there is no god
Could you imagine if there were? What a bastard.
Yeah, I'll have no truck with such a like.
At least they (boomers, exers, millennials, zoomers... whatever) didn't vote for... (gasp)... a woman!
Because a woman for president?!! When PIGS fly!!!
mostly made up of stupid people
Nop. The structures of power support people that are not focussing on the greater good for us humans but for short profit. Not stupid. Just not using the power we have together.
And even if I am stupid: I still want the best for you. Why would we be against stupid people? I am way more against smart people profiting on our back.
Why would we be against stupid people?
Because stupid people are easily lead to act against their own, and other's, interests.
The good news is that stupid is curable, the bad news is that it involves the person in question putting in some effort, that they may not have spare, and doing so against the command of those manipulating them.
We are God's unwanted children.
