You Just Can't Fix Stupid

   I feel that I may actually be deathly allergic to dumb, close minded people.  I heard via  a friends update on their facebook page, "that you just can't fix stupid".   I'm usually one to argue just about any topic, but this comment I relate to.  Can you really teach someone something if their cup is already full?  They feel like they know more than you because naturally their ego tells them that they are. The ego can tell the best lies quite often. Naturally you'll believe them eventually.

   Take for example this article I read the other day.  (http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/08/24/dumb-things-americans-believe.html)  I mean 1 in 5 Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. 61% of Americans do not believe in the theory of Evolution. That means only 39% believe Darwin with evidence in nature all around us. This leads me to the point that we as a society focus on things that are totally irrelevant instead of the "Real" problems of the world.

   If every American would read this article (http://www.buzzfeed.com/aestheticoctopus/facts-of-life-u4o) at least once a day, I feel maybe their ignorance could be lifted like a veil over the blind lambs eyes that follow the road to conformity. The one statement alone leaves me speechless "If you have money in the bank, your wallet and some extra change in your pocket you are among the top 8% of Worlds weatlh", more than 92% more than the rest of the world. It just baffles me to the point where I feel like I might lose faith in our system or worse become contaminated with their illness or catch the blindness that seems to be running rampant!  

   I feel like America has been conned right in our own home, and like any con the only person you can blame is yourself.  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe one said that "We can never be deceived; We only deceive ourselves" I follow this guy on twitter who Aron my friend referred me to, @umairh, who really is a revolutionary at least in his thinking and ideals. His Generation M Manifesto (http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2009/07/today_in_capitalism_20_1.html) is a summary of the problems formed from the stupidity of others in this country.  Our Ignorance has lead us to this collapse of our moral and economic systems due to greed and foolishness. People selected greed over steady growth, and my favorite excerpt from his article as it was written for the Old People that run our Country "You wanted to biggie size life: McMansions, Hummers, & McFood. We want to HUMANIZE LIFE.

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