Stupidity, Obama & Information Clearing House
VIVA PALESTINE
"Hate stupidity not the stupid, stupid!"
By Joel Miller
December 16, 2009 "ICH" -- Stupidity is neither ignorance (lack of
knowledge) or false beliefs, but a condition of intelligence. Like our
physical condition, intelligence can be in good (smart) or poor (stupid)
shape and always either improving or deteriorating. The word stupid stems
from a root word meaning hit and first implied a stunned state after
receiving a blow. Stupidity was a temporary condition. Unfortunately, the
period of stupidity, of being in a stupor, can extend over many years when
the blows come from social, political, cultural or economic events. Many and
repeated blows can cause intellectual punch-drunkenness.
"Fear and obedience are the bread and butter of stupidity sandwiches."
PO (Product Obama) and Information Clearing House newsletter illustrate two
sides of a basic form of stupidity. We'll begin with the president.
The campaign based on "change" should have alerted everyone that a
con-artist had entered the room. Change indeed. PO could just as well have
promised weather. Change occurs whether we want it or not. Why was the great
dark hope shouting meaningless abstractions about change while barely
whispering about specific actions?
Bush was a great "changer." He changed adherence to law and the
constitution. He changed the country to a state of war. He changed the
condition of the economy. After all the changes under Bush the people would
have elected a dead rabbit rather than a Republican.
The play on ethnicity, the sugar-coated racism, should also have caused
alert lights to blink. What effect did black general Powell or black
secretary Rice have on government policy?
"Stupidity comes in all shapes and sizes and can fit a pimp, prude,
professor, priest, prince or president."
PO's silence during the massacre in Gaza convinced everyone but the stupid
that the president was a stooge. If you can't say anything about a massacre
of innocents, what can you say? His silence rang louder than the cries of
pain, anguish and despair caused by the made-in-USA white phosphorous hurled
by Israeli aggressors.
How stupid do you have to be to believe that a new president who retains key
honchos of the previous president is going to change anything essential? If
that doesn't smarten you up, how do you react to the fact that new staff
members all come from the financial cells of banksters who terrorized the
economy?
"No amount of intelligence will prevent you from doing stupid things."
The stack of broken promises build by PO tells all but the stupidest that
he's a forked-tongued charlatan. He's changed nothing but the quality of
lies. Bush's clumsy lies have changed into elegant ones. Lies once spoken in
stumbling, grammatically-challenged sentences now flow in well articulated
prose. Some change!
It was both embarrassing and nauseating to hear members of the
"intelligentsia" shouting over the stack of lies begging PO to refrain from
sending more troops to Afghanistan. They may as well have appealed to a dead
rabbit.
If PO isn't a liar, he should be awarded a congressional medal of stupidity.
He claims the increase in troops is intended for a decrease in troops at a
later date. He claims to be convinced that the freedom and security of the
USA are threatened by poor villagers on the other side of the world. He
approves of launching hell-fire missiles at suspects even if they are among
wedding guests. Pin a medal on the dummy or admit he's a lier.
"Intelligence has its limits, but not stupidity."
Of course PO forms a mere figurehead on the ship of state navigating by a
compass of profit on a mission of conquest. Many people advocate appealing
to the hands on deck (congress) to change course. That's stupid. The crew of
the ship is paid by and follows the orders of the plutocrat commanders.
Thousands of things can be done to alter the present state of affairs. The
first and most important of which is to get smart. Discard the (stupid)
illusion that you can influence the established government institutions.
These are the administrative tools of the plutocracy. And the plutocrats
can't be diverted from their course because they are the stupidest people in
the world. They are punch-drunk stupid from fighting fantasy enemies created
by their own lies. They're blinded by arrogance, decayed with corruption and
diseased with greed.
"Power corrupts and so does powerlessness and both of them breed stupidity."
Many people throughout the world still look to their governments to solve
problems resulting from the policies of the governments. This is due to a
basic form of stupidity that can easily be seen by Information Clearing
House (ICH). This daily newsletter supplies information under the slogan
"News You Won't Find On CNN". Its comprehensive and relevant news coverage
has attracted over 66 000 subscribers. With no advertisers, institutions,
parties or businesses in the background, Tom, the single person running the
show, maintains a high level of trust and integrity. He counts on the
subscribers to support his efforts through contributions. Unfortunately,
most of the subscribers, despite their political awareness, can be proven
stupid.
"Ignorance and stupidity are not crimes but the cause of crimes."
Once a month Tom makes a plea for contributions. After three days of
pleading less than 0,005% of the subscribers respond. Stupidity inhibits the
subscribers from supporting this excellent source of vital information? A
basic form of stupidity. It's not so much that they interpret a "free press"
as being free from costs instead of being free from commercial interests.
They think (stupidly) that someone else will pay. They fail to shoulder
their responsibility, to support an enterprise working in their interests.
It's the same form a basic stupidity that surrenders responsibility for the
community to incompetent and unscrupulous politicians. Someone else will do
it!
"Popular stupidities, comfortable conformities and attractive absurdities
are disturbing realities in the path of practical necessities."
I cry internally every month at the poor response to Tom's request for
support. Do we have a chance at all when so much stupidity abounds among
those who have a relatively good grasp of current events? No, we don't. Our
only hope is that people get smart. That they realise that they have a
responsibility for the events of our times. Note "a" responsibility, not the
responsibility. If they don't do what they can, how can we hope to achieve
what is possible? If they're not smart enough to support the people and
projects that work in their interests, they are, despite their knowledge and
merits in general, not smart enough to influence the course of developments.
They are basically stupid, which, as mentioned above, is a temporary state
of intelligence. Let's hope this state changes in time.
by Joel Miller
who has done so many stupid things so often that he can be considered an
authority on stupidity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24202.htm