That when you lay an older woman, she sucks your younger blood and leave you with old blood?
the things i read in this village
Misamiati mbadala:
Buffalo soldier - Nyati Askari
Yes and you inherit all her sexual demons
It’s all bullshit
The Power of Stupidity
by Giancarlo Livraghi
Chapter 1 – The Stupidity Problem
tupidity is a nasty problem. I have always been fascinated with human
stupidity. My own, of course – as well as all sorts of stupid attitudes
and obnoxious mistakes messing up everyone’s life every day. That’s
a big enough cause of anxiety. But things get much worse when one has a
chance to find out how powerful and influential people decide and behave
on matters that have large scale (and long term) consequences.
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We generally tend to blame awful decisions on intentional perversity,
selfishness, astute mischievousness, megalomania, etc. They are there,
of course – in staggering quantity. But any careful study of history,
or observation of current events, leads to the invariable conclusion that
the single biggest source of terrible mistakes is sheer stupidity.
This fact is quite widely understood by anyone who has had a chance to
look into the subject. It’s effectively summarized in Hanlon’s Razor:
«Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity.» 1
The concept was confirmed by Robert Heinlein in a shorter and
simpler statement: «Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.»
When stupidity combines with other factors (as happens quite often)
the results can be devastating. In many situations human stupidity is the
origin of a series of events that combine into constantly increasing
complication, with effect that can be quite funny – until we discover that
they are tragic. In other cases stupidity is not the origin of the problem, but
all sorts of stupid behaviors make it worse and prevent effective solutions.
A fact that surprises me (or does it?) is the very little amount of study
dedicated to such an important subject. There are University departments
for the mathematical complexities in the movements of Amazonian ants,
or the medieval history of Perim island; but I have never heard of any
Foundation or Board of Trustees supporting any studies of Stupidology. 2
1
1 The origin of Hanlon’s Razor is uncertain. It can be considered as a corollary
to Finagle’s Law of Dynamic Negatives (which is similar to Murphy’s Law
– see chapter 4.) It’s inspired by a classic, Occam’s Razor (and it’s equally sharp).
“Hanlon” is probably a phonetic variation on the name of Robert Heinlein,
who had stated that concept in his novel Logic of Empire in 1941.
2
A “stupidity class” was annnouced by the Occidental College in 2009, but it’s irrelevant.
In the literature if all times there are several comments, and descriptions
of facts, that can help us to understand the problem. But very few books
that get into any depth on this issue.
One I read when I was a teenager, but never forgot. It is called
A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity by Walter B. Pitkin
of Columbia University, and was published in 1934. 3
I found it by chance many years ago while browsing around old
bookshelves – and, much to my delight, I still have it. Old as it is, it’s still
a good book. Some of Professor Pitkin’s observations appear extraordinarily
correct seventy years later.
Even before reding the book, there is an obvious question. Why
did he call a 300-page book a “short introduction?” At the end, it says:
«Epilogue: now we are ready to start studying the History of Stupidity.»
Nothing follows.
Professor Pitkin was a wise man. He knew that a lifetime was far
too short to cover even a fragment of such a vast subject. So he published
the Introduction, and that was it. 4
One of Pitkin’s observations is that it is difficult to study stupidity
because nobody has a really good definition of what it is. Geniuses are often
considered stupid by a stupid majority (though nobody has a good definition
of genius, either). But stupidity is definitely there, and there is much more
of it than our wildest nightmares might suggest. In fact, it runs the world –
which is very clearly proven by the way the world is run. (See chapter 10
The Stupidity od Power.)
A few years later (1937) also Robert Musil, in his lecture On Stupidity,
noted how scarcely studied was «the shameful domination that stupidity
has on us» – and commented dismally that he had found «unbelievably few
predecessors in dealing with this subject.»
In recent years the literature on stupidity is somewhat less scarce.
But all authors probing into any depth find that there is a lack of studies
on this subject.
When we try to understand stupidity, we are dealing with a subject
that is scarcely studied, rarely understood, broadly avoided because it’s
uncomfortable and disturbing (as we shall see in chapter 28). It’s as though
we all knew that we are stupid, but were uneasy abut admitting it.
We are not going to solve the problem by being afraid of it – or
pretending that it isn’t there. So let’s venture into the tricky swamps
of human stupidity and see what we can find.
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3
It is reported that also Jorge Luis Borges, in 1934, started writing a Historia Universal
de la Infamia – but gave up when he found that the task was too big for a lifetime.
Gustave Flaubert was always obsessed with stupidity, but he was never able to complete
his planned “encyclopedia” on this subject (see chapter 28.)
4
In Pitkin’s opinion, four people out of five are stupid enough to be called “stupid.”
That was one and a half billion people when he wrote the book; it is over five
billion now. Of course he didn’t mean to say that such figures could be taken
literally. But the fact is quite worrying. (See chapter 25 – Is stupidity growing?)
When I was signing up for this site I wanted to name myself Bitter Man. I think I sould have.
Yes. Nigerian ones.
testis everywhere testis everywhere testis everywhere testis everywhere
mayai kila pahali mayai kila pahali mayai kila pahali mayai kila pahali
And why would you prefer laying older women… Or is it because they accept more readily?
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Wako na kamberence mingi
Ooh Jesus redeem your people!
Leso, weave, soko, no bra,… Boss is that you…
unaaibisha NV meffi
If you indeed believe that then it is all for the best for the rest of mankind for reasons you wouldn’t understand.
i bet my postmortem report will read,‘Death by stupid posts’.
