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90% of the problems in the world are
\n caused by smart people. The other day our son was wondering "Why are
\n there so many stupid people?" Wrong question. It should be, "Why do the
\n smart people get to tell everyone else what to do?"<\/p>\n
Despite their best efforts to pretend otherwise, being
\n very smart does not make one a better person, or any wiser or fairer
\n or better able to understand their fellow Americans, any more than being
\n very rich or being a very good athlete does. And yet it is the smart
\n and rich who take it upon themselves to tell the rest of us what to wear,
\n watch, read, talk about and think.<\/p>\n
The core problem with our system is those it calls to
\n power. Smart, ambitious power-mongers, many with an ax to grind and a
\n few with certifiable psychoses. They are rewarded for cutthroat treachery
\n and back-door deal making, and eviscerated for showing weakness or human
\n foibles.<\/p>\n
Gone are the citizen civic leaders<\/a>, called briefly and In a cruel, condescending emasculation of the spirit The misery, misfortune and angst of the intelligensia 90% of the problems in the world are caused by smart people. The other day our son was wondering "Why are there so many stupid people?" Wrong question. It should be, "Why do the smart people get to tell everyone … Continue reading
\n reluctantly to public service and happy to return to their farms and
\n families afterward. We have bred a soulless class of civil servants
\n led by anointed families and legions of power-starved, manipulative,
\n type "A" assholes. <\/p>\n
\n that made America great, these smartasses have the temerity to decide
\n what normal people should think about, and what they should think about
\n them! They try to sell stuff to us by pretending to be "dumb" and figuring
\n out what they think "dumb" people want to hear. And because people buy
\n their shit, they think they have us pegged.<\/p>\n
\n is constant evidence that intelligence is not all its cracked up to be.
\n We are working on a multi-volume series titled "Why Smart People do Stupid
\n Things". The tragedy of our times is than in order to prove and re-prove
\n these truisms, millions of just regular people need to suffer and die.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"