I love these guys!
They are God's children every bit as much as I am. But they are stupid people.
And politically, they are toxic to the survival of American democracy - to the whole American Experiment.
Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Education (With A Failsafe Proposal For National Restoration)
A confession...
I am starting to "write off" stupid people as incorrigible.
Arguing with "the functionally decerebrate" is still marginally useful, but not because stupid people will "see the light."
Rather, argument is useful because "bystanders on the edge of the conversation" will learn something.
Thomas Paine was right: “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Yes, the Dunning-Kruger Hypothesis is "only" a hypothesis, but it is my "working hypothesis," and a quite good one I think.
In essence, Dunning and Kruger hold that "stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid."
I am starting to "write off" stupid people as incorrigible.
Arguing with "the functionally decerebrate" is still marginally useful, but not because stupid people will "see the light."
Rather, argument is useful because "bystanders on the edge of the conversation" will learn something.
Thomas Paine was right: “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Yes, the Dunning-Kruger Hypothesis is "only" a hypothesis, but it is my "working hypothesis," and a quite good one I think.
In essence, Dunning and Kruger hold that "stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid."
"Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect"
"New York Times Interviews David Dunning, Co-Author Of The Dunning-Kruger Effect"
McArthur Wheeler: Patron Saint Of American "Conservatism"
"Stupidity For Dummies: The Study Of Ignorance Helps Understand How Intelligence Works"
"The Death Of Epistemology"
"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts
"Most Stupid People Are Conservative"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/stupidity-starts-when-conservatives.html
Alan: Since stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid, they believe that when they are accurately described, they're being vilified.
John Stuart Mill's intent -- and my intent -- is not to vilify but to taxonomize.
Only when honest nomenclature is in place is progress possible.
Stupid people exist.
No one argues this.
It's just that stupid people are incapable of conceiving themselves as stupid and so they persist in their stupidity as if it were "God's Truth."
Not surprisingly, because they feel so closely bound to "God's Truth," many of the stupidest people are "conservative" "Christians" (who, in fact, are neither).
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: What I Think About Christianity
Everything Wrong With "Conservative" "Christianity"
(Best compilation of "ignorance and stupidity" links)
"Lord Of The Lizard People"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/12/leader-of-lizard-people.html
Fran Lebowitz: "People Love Their Hatred More Than They Care About Their Own Actual Lives"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/annie-liebowitz-people-love-their.htmlFran Lebowitz On Trump: His Stupidity And His Followers' Hatred
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/fran-lebowitz-on-trump-his-stupidity.htmlJefferson On Education's Indispensable Role In "Penetrating And Dissipating The Darkness"
H.L. Mencken Prophesied The Flabbergasting Stupidity Of Americans
Howard Stern Video:
Trump "Despises His Own Followers"
Trumpism: The Rebellion Of Know-Nothing Twits
That Big Brother Is Watching You Is Nothing: The Horror Is His Redefinition Of Trumpery As Truth
Orwell: A Brief, Image-Rich Introduction To A Prophetic Genius
"The Coalition Of The Stupid"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/trumpism-rebellion-of-know-nothing.html
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
Donald Trump, Felon: Starting With His Trump University Scam And Itemizing His Criminality On Through His First Wife Ivana's Accusation Of Violent, Hair-Tearing Rape
Anti-Intellectualism In The United States Of Barbaria: Wellspring Of Ignorance-Falsehood-Stupidity
"My Gripe With Christianity"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo t.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-ch ristianity.html
"Are Highly Religous People Less Compassonate?"
"Are Highly Religous People Less Compassonate?"
Bible Gives Two Accounts Of "Sodom's Sin." The One You Favor Reveals You
An Open Question: Could Satan Himself Destroy As Many Souls As Biblical "Literalism"
"Evangelical Support Of Trump Will Be An Indictment Against Its Validity," Fr. Richard Rohr
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelical-support-of-trump-will-be.html"The Sermon On The Mount" As Envisioned By "Christian" "Conservatives"
Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Losing Their Souls
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/christian-conservatives-are-losing.html
"Christian" "Conservatives" Are Neither Christian Nor Conservative
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/christian-conservatives-are-neither.html
"The Deepening Crisis In Evangelical Christianity"
Support For Trump Degrades Christian Witness
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-deepening-crisis-in-evangelical.html
Evangelicals' Lack Of Faith Is The Greatest Threat To The Church
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelicals-lack-of-faith-is-single.html
Cartoon: American Evangelicals Join The Last Supper
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/05/cartoon-american-evangelicals-join-last.htmlCorrupted By Grifters And Charlatans, Evangelicalism Has Devolved Into A Hate Group
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/01/corrupted-by-grifters-and-charlatans.htmlAbsolutism As A Last Ditch Defense Against The Challenge (Threat?) Of Kindness
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/absolutism-as-defense-against-challenge.html
The Obsolescence Of God
Good Religion And Bad
Bill McKibben "The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong"
James' Epistle: "Judgment Without Mercy Will Be Shown To Anyone Who Has Not Shown Mercy"
Peter The Apostle's Prime Directive: It Is Love That Forgives Sins
Facebook Exchange With Christian Fundamentalist Over "Wickedness" And "Hell"
Christians Ignore Jesus' "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Saidhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspo t.com/2016/05/christians-ignor e-jesus-commandments.html
Hey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!How Do American Christians Direct Their Moral Umbrage?
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-american-christians-direct-their.html?m=0
Hey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!
How Do American Christians Direct Their Moral Umbrage?
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-american-christians-direct-their.html?m=0
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-american-christians-direct-their.html?m=0
Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"http://paxonbothhouses. blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua- excoriates-fellow-pharisees- woe.html
The Pharisees... And What Became Of The Thirty Pieces Of Silver
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-pharisees-and-what-became-of-thirty.html
The Pharisees... And What Became Of The Thirty Pieces Of Silver
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-pharisees-and-what-became-of-thirty.html
"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?"Jesus of Nazarethhttp://paxonbothhouses. blogspot.com/2013/12/do-you- know-what-youre-doing-to-me. html
Jesus Rails Against Human Traditions Of "Our Great Leaders Who Lived Long Ago"
Everything Jesus And The Apostles Had To Say About "The Rich" And "The Poor"
What's Wrong With Christian Bigots?"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"Images Of Yeshua, A Nazarene Carpenter
"From Jesus To Christ, The First Christians"
Frontline
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
http://paxonbothhouses. blogspot.com/2014/04/bad- religion-compendium.htmlHey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!Plank In Eye Disease: Humankind's Most Common Affliction
"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"
Images Of Yeshua, A Nazarene Carpenter
"From Jesus To Christ, The First Christians"
Frontline
"From Jesus To Christ, The First Christians"
Frontline
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
http://paxonbothhouses. blogspot.com/2014/04/bad- religion-compendium.html
http://paxonbothhouses.
Hey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!
Plank In Eye Disease: Humankind's Most Common Affliction
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo t.com/2017/09/televangelist-ji m-bakker-resurrected-if.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
P.J. O'Rourke On Trump, Trumpistas And The Futility Of Drug Tests: Test For Stupidity, Ignorance, Greed And The Love Of Power
Trump Supporter's Anguished Question: "Why Do Liberals Think We're Stupid?"
Think About How Stupid The Average Person Is...
Peanuts Gets A Library Card!
The Flabbergasting Stupidity Of Americans
Plutocracy And The Flabbergsating Stupidity Of Angry White People
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