Bill McIntyre
April 5, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2506
The promotion of dumb and stupid
"Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." - JOHN WAYNE
Is stupid the new smart? Is dumb the new wise? Is oblivious the new
aware?
I am prompted to pose these simple questions in light of current events
as witnessed through the probing lenses of television cameras and the
scribblings of the popular print media, not to mention the prolific news
sources found on the Internet and the overcrowded field occupied by far
too many bloggers all jostling elbow-to-elbow for my rapidly dimini****ng
attention span.
Have you noticed over the past decade or so how television, movies,
magazines and newspapers glorify the antics of really stupid people? I
think the movie Dumb and Dumber opened the floodgates to this trend.
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It's chilling really. And that's why I think the world today is so
easily fooled by charlatans and posers who have no solutions to real
problems. Is this why we are being spoon-fed copious amounts of pap
about Britney Spears, Hannah Montana and Barack Obama? They keep our
minds off real life.
For instance, the Global Warming fable that has become the flavor of the
year for so many. In spite of evidence to the contrary that the world
over the past five or so years has been cooling, so many scientists,
preachers, politicians, journalists and academics have seized on the
fantasy so religiously they cannot stop bowing down to the discredited
green idol.
In our gullibility we are allowing our governments to tax our economies
into ruin in the name of saving the Earth; create repressive laws and
institutions designed to wring complicity from its citizens, all in an
effort to appease and ultimately capitulate to the eco-anarchists who
are striving to create chaos and fear and dictator****p.
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The media likes to call these gamblers, speculators. We should be
calling them criminals. Better yet we should be calling them inmates
along those who enable their greed.
I could go on but won't. You can develop your own list of stupid ideas,
practices and leaders to suit your own locale. The idea is to expose
them. Challenge their stupidity. Pry them from their hiding places and
wrench their mantles of greenness, piety and purity from them. They hate
it when that happens.
If we continue to follow stupid people with stupid ideas and stupid
policies we will indeed find life harder.
Where is John Wayne when we need him?
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on
long, medium and even short time scales." R. Timothy Patterson,
Professor Of Geology, Director Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center,
Carleton University, Canada
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