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Anaximenes of Clazomenae, was a Greek Philosopher who lived in the sixth century BCE. Through observation and the use of logic, he correctly deduced that a rainbow was the work of a natural phenomenon rather than the work of a god. Thus, he was among the first to renounce the belief that reality is created from thin air by an omnipotent being, but rather, the natural outcome of immutable physical laws. The universe works by its own machinery, creating and upholding everything within it – including the gods. This is an astronomical order in no need of outward influence.

Not that I consider myself to be any manifestation of an otherworldly evolutionary intelligence, but it has become painfully obvious to me that, as the late George Carlin (RIP) was fond of pointing out, most people are really fucking stupid.

More to the point, most people are just intellectually lazy. Stupidity, after all, is a function of what capabilities your brain has or doesn’t have, and what knowledge it can and cannot comprehend. That is mostly a product of genetics and you really have little control over that, except for the fact that the more you use your brain, the better it gets at processing and decoding information. But the fact is that most people dismiss their capability to learn a great deal more than they choose, preferring instead to remain ignorant and uninformed. And that makes me all ill and angry.

What a better planet this would be to inhabit if people would simply get up off their mental asses, exercise a little cerebral calisthenics, and fucking learn something other than what the rest of the badly informed and intellectually deficient masses are telling them.

There is no shortage of idiocy or ignorant things that people will do, say, practice or believe in. Certainly, it is a subject so broad, so vast and so pervasive that I’ll never have a shortage of material to write about. And as I think about it, most of my blog postings are centered precisely on things, practices or beliefs that are obtuse…

That’s it. It’s over. I cannot string together two more words and make them sound anything like writing. I just keep getting “cliche alert!” warnings blaring in my head with a healthy dose of “this blog sucks!” every now and again.

I feel like an electrical plug with no outlet…all this creative energy, all these ideas, all the right wiring, but no power source to make me go! Frustrating as all hell!

And if you cannot comment without ad hominem attacks or canards of a vociferous nature, or if you don’t know what those words mean and are too lazy to look them up (you might also look up the word “satire”, as my postings are merely nothing more than trenchant wit to poke fun at various subjects), please keep your stupidity to yourself. Anaximenes, and I thank you.

~ by davenewworld on June 23, 2008.