Sometimes I get heated. Like, people will be talking nearby, and no matter how hard I try to bite my tongue, I can’t help jumping in because they’re WRONG. So fucking WRONG.
And I realize that other people have different lived experiences. I realize that other people read different news, watch different movies and TV and absorb things differently than I do but…
Why do you gotta be so wrong? So ignorant? So all-out STUPID? C’mon people! Wake up!
And I understand that educational standards have changed since I was young. That some schools have fallen into outright dispensing propaganda to the kids under their care, and as a result those kids have turned to sources like YouTube and Tumblr and Tik Tok to teach them about the world. And as a result… Ugh. So stupid.
And I don’t believe that PEOPLE are stupid. I’m old school, yeah, but I’ve adapted. Evolved. Changed with the times. Somewhat.
I don’t think that PEOPLE are stupid. I think that they believe stupid things. They do stupid things. They fall into stupidity traps and end up living stupidly when they could be doing better. But no, nobody is BORN stupid.
Everybody starts off ignorant and unknowing and learns things as they go along. And sometimes the sources they learn from give them wrong information or don’t offer information at all and the person has to learn things on their own.
They pick things up on the street, as it were. And everybody lives on different streets, which results in some people being taught foolish lessons or just coming up with ideals on their own that the majority of people would view as wrong or all out evil.
Capitalism is learned, not ingrained.
So rich people go to rich people schools that teach them rich people ideals that result in people growing up to be rich people stupid.
“I’m rich, therefore I’m better than everyone around me. So it’s a good idea to create what anyone else would call a death trap and entomb people in it and drop them to the bottom of the ocean FOR MY PROFIT.” It seems smart? No. It’s fucking stupid.
That’s just the way it is. Like, “I’m going to send a bunch of people to a colony on Mars where they will live and work and treat me like a king. And some people will be important and receive MASSIVE amounts of wealth, and other people will be there to do all the work nobody else wants to do and basically be the body slaves of their betters. What a great idea I’ve had! King of the World! Emperor of Mars! All hail my mightiness!”
Or “I’m going to use my massive company to generate massive amounts of wealth FOR ME, and as a result it’s going to DESTROY the environment people need to live but I’LL be richer and more powerful than a GOD! So I’ll have my worker-drones create a massive underground facility for my family and my retainers to live in after the world up above becomes an unlivable hellscape of biblical proportions. What could go wrong?”
And the stupidity in both those scenarios is OBVIOUS to anyone with a working brain but the propaganda of “Rich makes right” creates a brain blockage of epic proportions. Just an inherent sense of stupidity that they don’t have the breadth of wisdom to see beyond.
When you’re incapable of seeing the non-rich as people… You can’t even grasp a sense of the danger you’re in.
Like, take Mister Dick Tater for example. He lives in a massive castle outside the city and refuses to fly or go by boat and only travels from here to there in a heavily armored tank of a train. He’s always surrounded by the army and horrifically murders anyone that even speaks against him.
It’s to the point that people are so afraid of angering him that they LIED about how powerful the country’s military is, which lead to them invading a neighboring country and getting their asses beat by dudes using $1500 toy drones and guerrilla war tactics.
Ultra capitalism is stupid.
It’s obviously stupid to anyone with a working mind. But some people just have that giant blindspot that sees them overthrown like the czars while wondering the whole time “Why is this happening to MEEEEE?!?”
And it’s a learned stupidity, which means the first guy being that stupid could possibly live their whole life in luxury and wealth beyond imagining, setting a terrible example for their children. And those children grow up to unknowingly be terrible people that everyone hates but who think “People are just jealous of my AWESOMENESS. They can’t possibly see me as a leech sucking on the lifeblood of the planet. I’m not a parasite ruining society. I’m a trendsetter. I’m AMAZING. Look how much money I have. I could wipe out world hunger with $4 billion dollars! If I wanted to. If I had the desire to. If I had any sense of connection to the world and people around me.”
It’s just so stupid.
Tiresome and ridiculous people unaware that they have a comeuppance headed toward them.
Wealth truly is wasted on the rich.
Pax,
~HarperWCK
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