Paying Attention: It’s The Stupidity, Stupid

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

It’s The Stupidity, Stupid

Stupid Putz Tricks

December 1, 2021

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
— Frank Zappa

It used to be that in order to manifest mob mentality as corporeal action, people had to show up at the same place at the same time, with a shared axe to grind. With all that in place, the well-documented change in behavior that is associated with large groups of people in close proximity, had the potential to change the behavior of individuals into something not likely to bubble up without the physically/emotionally shared moment.

Now, we have perpetual mob mentality thanks to people feeling emboldened by like-minded morons on social media, which unfortunately has morphed into what is more accurately described as anti-social media, at least in large measure at this point. Of course, it fortunately still requires someone physically showing up in order to do bodily harm (or perpetrate an assault on the Capitol). Unfortunately, there are far too many guns, short emotional fuses, and lack of both intelligence, self-control and respect for human life, to stop ceaseless acts of violence in this country. And there is an endless supply of agitation floating around on the internet, not to mention the rampant misinformation and disinformation just waiting for some gullible galoot to take off the couch and into the streets.

How else would some thousand…let’s call them people…show up at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas to await the return of assassinated president John F. Kennedy and his more recently deceased namesake, who would swoop in and make Donald J. Turmp president once again – against the will of the American people as a whole. Not-so-fun fact: hundreds of them remaining there for more than two weeks after the painfully predictable no-shows.

Linus the cartoon child waits in vain for the Great Pumpkin for one night – Halloween.

Cartoonish Q MAGAts wait in vain for dead Kennedys to appear – for over three weeks.

The Rapture vs. The Rupture

What the hell is that about anyway? Is this like a prelude to the Rapture, except with Kennedy(s)? Weren’t they Democrats? Weren’t they Catholics? Do these Q’idiots not know anything about anything? This is as good as when that Q-addled kid went to the infamous pizza parlor in DC where Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks were hording their breakfast babies in the basement, and there was not even a fucking basement, let alone the other insane bullshit. Not-so-fun fact: hundreds of these Kennedy Rapturists continued their vigil for more than three weeks after the painfully predictable no-shows. Maybe they should check out the basement of the book Texas School Book Depository. Or was that a book suppository. Which is the only way these knuckle-draggers could get any benefit from a book.

Verrrry interesting…but stupid

All of this is especially true in these days of purposeful ignorance. Access to information is unparalleled today. All you have to be is curious, and you can find out all kinds of things. Things you agree with as well as things with which you disagree. Then you can at least attempt to make an informed decision, as opposed to burying your head in the necrotic bosom of Fux News, Alex Jones, et al. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that more liberals are aware of what the radical right is saying than the other way around.