Wednesday, November 2, 2022

This Compendium Of "Stupidity And Ignorance Posts" Reveals The Seductive Comfort People Find In Pretending That "Ignorance Is Bliss," When In Fact Stupidity And Ignorance Are "Opiates Of The People," Complete With The Unrelenting Pain, Pervasive Fear And Lack Of Fulfillment That Accompany Every Addiction

I've Been Meaning To Write This Cut-To-The-Chase Analysis For Several Years: Democracy, Theocracy And The Transformation Of American Politics In My Lifetime

"Why The Past Ten Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid... And It’s Not Just A Phase." By Jonathan Haidt

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-past-ten-years-of-american-life.html

How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers." Trump Cultists Confuse Noisy Echo Chamber Opinionization With Thinking. They Are, In Fact, Too Stupid (Or At Least Too Stupefacted) To Know They're Stupid.

How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers" (Trump Followers Confuse Opinionization With Thinking. In Fact, They Are Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid.)


"Aggressive Ignorance And Christianity's Failure To Champion Truth"

Stupidity: Democracy -- In Any Of Its Manifestations -- Just Doesn't Work Without An Educated Citizenry That Believes In The Common Good And A Modicum Of Compromise


"Stupid People Are Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid"... And That's Just The Beginning

"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-electorate-is-this-stupid-is-any.html 

"Pardon Him, Theodotus; He Is A Barbarian And Thinks That The Customs Of His Tribe And Island Are The Laws Of Nature." George Bernard Shaw On The Nature Of Personal Stupidity And Social Stupefaction

"A Confession: I'm Starting To Write Off Stupid People As Incorrigible"

It Has Come To This: How Do Intelligent Citizens Deal With The Irredeemably Stupid, Ignorant And Self-Pithed People Who Have Taken Over? 

Trump Comments On Voter Fraud: People Can Only Be This Stupid When Their Identity Depends On Being Stupid

"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"

The Insuperable Stupidity-Perversity-Ignorance Of Diehard Trump Supporters

Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty


"If Trump Voters Listened To Reason, They Wouldn't Be Trump Voters"

"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

"The GOP Deliberately Crafted An Ignorant, Prejudicial, Hateful Constituency"

(And Conservative Christians Proclaimed Themselves The Embodiment of Love)

"Follow-Up To Jim Mattis' Reference To Trump As An Ignorant Dolt Who Doesn't Read"

"Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees"

Alan: Once the interlocking matrix of conspiratorial ideation takes hold of a person's psyche, s/he is no longer free to think according to The Rules of Evidence, but MUST conform to the lineaments of orthodox blather.
Ironically, these body-snatched blatherers comprise their own Deep State which is more dangerous to epistemological integrity and governmental functionality than the Deep State they allege.

The Deep State Is Real: Plutocratic, Oligarchic, Unbridled Capitalism

"The Rich Plunder The Poor, Then Pile The Blame On The Dispossessed"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-rich-plunder-poor-then-pile-blame.html

Compendium of "Pax-Barbaria" Stupidity Posts

"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-decisive-distinction-between-people.html

Is Ortega Y Gasset The Most Important Modern Philosopher? The Most Discerning Prophet?

The Incipient Unraveling Of The Western World As Seen By Visionary Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1929)



"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/cruelty-is-point-update-on-donald-trump.html


Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Trump-Cult Cruelty
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/compendium-of-pax-barbaria-posts-about.html

"The Cruelty Was The Point: The Trump Administration's Cruel Treatment Of Migrant Families Was Intentional And Calculated," Washington Post
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-cruelty-was-point-trump.html

The Perfect Photo To Epitomize The Horror Of Trump: Not Only Does He Inflame The Worst Angels Of Our Nature, HeTeaches His Followers That It's Okay -- Indeed, Virtuous - To Laugh At Murderous Cruelty

Trump Is "Just" A Spearhead And A Symptom: Basically, Stupid People Have Taken Over
http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/12/trump-is-just-spearhead-and-symptom.html

Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies

How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies 

Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge

"It Has Come To This. How Do We Tell The Truth To 40% Of Americans?"


The Age-Old Normalization Of Warfare Through Stupidity, Ego And Religion


Just How Stupid Are We?
Yet Another Study Confirms That "Fox News" Fans Are The Least Informed Of All American News "Consumers"
... And John Oliver Viewers Are The Best Informed

A BRILLIANT Animation About German Lutheran Pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer (Hung For His Role In A Plot Against Hitler) Who Concluded That 'Stupidity Is More Difficult To Remedy Than Malice'

Compendium Of Best "Pax" Memes And Cartoons

My Best Memes: If You Are Squeamish About The Word "Sh*t" You May Wish To Ignore This Post. (This Is My Last Political Email On Election Day, 2020)

Pax On Both Houses' Most Frequently Visited Memes: Volumes 1 & 2 (Through August 2, 2017)


And, last but not least...

George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary













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