Really Stupid People

What they say of insanity is this, that a true lunatic will not suspect that he is crazy. So a genuine schizophrenic will never doubt the voices he hears. So here we find an instance of a true contradiction, that is, that if you think you are crazy, you’re not. I think they have called that a logical catch.

The same must be true of really stupid people, that they do not suspect themselves of being stupid.

Well, one might ask, how do these extremely stupid people account for a World that must to them make no sense? What do they make of people who talk in complexities that they themselves cannot possibly follow? Well, they have a surprising method for dealing, and I’ve seen it again and again from stupid people. They turn it around and say that the Smart People are the ones who are not making any sense. They say the World isn’t making sense. They revert to simplistic philosophies of self justification and insist that all of the effete intellectuals and the overly complex societies are the real problems. Everything is really simple and easy but the effete eggheads are only trying to muddy the waters.

If it all went no further than indulging their self-delusion, than it would not be much of a problem. But they are allowed to vote.

The Solution for this Problem? Well, yes, certainly, we could do something. Everybody should be made to take some objective universal test and and then, depending upon the results, they should wear hats or arm bands that signify the band of their IQ Ranking. White for 150 and above. Gray – 140 to 150. Purple 130 to 140. Blue 120 to 130. Green 110 to 120. yellow 100 to 110. Orange 90 to 100. Red 80 to 90. Brown 70 to 80. Black absolute bottom – duh! Online one would be obliged to affix a signature indicative of one’s intelligence color code…. As though we don’t already know who’s stupid.

Once we know how smart people are, then we could identify who we could really take seriously. Oh, and yes, people with less than a 130 IQ should not be allowed to vote.

Oh, yes, and the good news for stupid people – they should not be considered as being capable of Moral Responsibility. No stupid person, that is, no person with an IQ of less than 110 should ever be sent to jail… what good would it do anyway? Certainly we can’t speak of “teaching them a lesson”? But the bad news is that there would have to be some institutional monitoring of stupid people. No matter how nice the Zoo is, they still don’t leave the cage doors open.