Anti-Social Darwinism wrote:Hey, willful, invincible ignorance is the worst form of stupidity - it's endemic in the human race. I can cure that in myself. I can try, with varying levels of success, to prevent it in those near and dear to me. But I can't vaccinate the whole world against their compulsive desire to deny facts. Can you? If so, please do it, now.
No, sorry, no quick fix. Massive social change tends to be a slow, complicated process, involving education, protest, set backs, and learning by trial and error over the course of years or generations. Nor are we likely to ever eliminate stupidity or ignorance completely. Indeed, attempting it would be rather stupid.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the world though, or to contain stupidity and ignorance and mitigate their consequences. Ignorance is not nessissarily a moral failing by the individual, so much as it is a failing of their parents, and their society. And for all the ignorance, their are many good and intelligent people in this world who have worked very hard to improve it. People without whom, our civilization would not be as well off as it is, indeed, might not even be here at all. What could be more lazy, or perhaps cowardly, than simply sitting back and dismissing humanity as a whole as a lost cause?
I am sorry, but I cannot help but feel contempt for those who sit around dismissing the entire human race, and who seem to be almost showing off their cynicism. That, and I hear the same damn lines again and again in thread after thread. One or two could be just some wise ass cracking a joke. Ten or twenty, and its just boring. Especially when its the fiftieth thread. Seriously, its not adding anything to this discussion.
If the world ends, it will most likely be because people have given up on saving it. So ironically, you are right. Stupidity is the problem.
