May 28, 2025 • 43 mins
What makes intelligent people embrace utterly irrational ideas? The answer lies in understanding stupidity—not as a lack of intelligence, but as something far more dangerous: the unwillingness to question one's own beliefs.
Drawing from philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer's insights, this episode explores how stupidity functions as a greater societal threat than evil itself. While evil makes perpetrators uncomfortable and carries the seeds of its own destruction, stupidity remains impregnable because it always believes it's on the side of good. This explains how brilliant, educated people can simultaneously hold completely illogical positions—they've closed their minds to contrary evidence and refuse to engage with challenging perspectives.
We examine modern manifestations of mass stupidity across the political spectrum, from gender ideology to climate alarmism to drug prohibition policies. The common thread isn't intelligence level but rather the cultish inability to process opposing viewpoints. When confronted with contradictory evidence, the "stupid" person doesn't engage but retreats to slogans or becomes hostile. This pattern appears regardless of education level or political affiliation.
The solution begins with education reform focused on critical thinking skills and philosophical frameworks like Stoicism that promote courage, wisdom, justice, and moderation. Economic literacy must be prioritized to help citizens understand how systems actually function. Most importantly, we must cultivate the courage to question our own deeply-held beliefs, especially those shared by our social circles and identity groups.
If this resonates with you, check out my book "A Radical Reset," which proposes anti-politism—a merit-based lottery system designed to transform politics from a career path for the ambitious into genuine public service. Let me know your thoughts on whether we can overcome mass stupidity before it further damages our democratic institutions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everyone .
It's me, herbie, your host heretoday at the Spiritual Agnostic
, here today, here and every day, since it's my podcast.
Today we're going to talk aboutstupidity To.
Stupidity is going to be at thetop of our list, but it's not
going to be your.
I don't know, maybe it is, whatdo I know?
But as far as I know, this isnot the typical discussion of
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stupidity, because stupidity, tobegin with, I want to define it
, okay, and then I'm going toput it in the context of why I
think it's so important for usto discuss it.
Stupidity is not the lack ofintelligence, but the lack of
curiosity or even a willingnessto listen, and in that respect,
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it's far more dangerous thanevil.
So, to my mind, see, evil iseasy to spot once it gets
underway, but stupidity is awhole different story.
A lot of people, includingmyself and my own experience,
back into being evil.
I did evil things before Irealized they were evil, okay,
but once I was exposed to thereality of what I did, I
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immediately saw that what I didwas evil and stopped and fell on
my sword.
Now, having said that, we livein a culture where there's so
much stupidity, where the peoplewho are stupid are also
incredibly intelligent, and thatis not a contradiction.
Our culture is suffering fromstupidity and people otherwise
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brilliant people can be stupid.
I think it was at Yale they dida.
It might have been.
It was one of the Ivy Leagueschools.
I think it was Yale, might havebeen Stanford, which is, by
when I say Ivy League schools,stanford is the equivalent of an
Ivy just on the West Coast.
Anyway, they're all kind ofpolluted now, but that's another
story and I digress.
Our major universities teachstupidity, but anyway, stupidity
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.
They ran some experiments.
Come to think of it.
I think it was Stanford.
Anyway, you can write me andtell me which it is.
I'm not going to bother lookingit up because it's not
important where it came from,only that it happened and you'll
recognize this.
They did a series ofexperiments where they had
students on one side of a wallhooked up to an electroshock
machine and students on theother side of the wall with the
buzzer to hit them, and I think,if memory serves, they weren't
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really electrocuting anybody,but the students with the shoot
the shit out of the buzzerthought they were, and we're so
the way.
This.
It was basically an experimentto see if people will follow
directions given to them byauthority, even when they know
it's it's wrong.
And it's a demonstration of how,for example, an entire
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population in Germany ofotherwise intelligent people can
elect someone as evil as AdolfHitler.
It's stupidity, it's massstupidity.
Hitler's a good example of howstupidity can really take hold
of things, and I know it's anextreme example and I'm not
citing that.
Anybody in the United States isroughly Hitlerian.
That's just lazy.
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When people start comparingDonald Trump to Hitler, that's
an absurd comparison.
But how did Hitler?
How did Nazism, itself aninherently evil?
Okay, and really, if you readMein Kampf, which I have managed
to wade through, hitler wasn'texactly Shakespeare and he laid
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it all out and the whole thingwas stupid and the racial
connections were let me not usethe word stupid, because we're
talking about stupidity, isn'tit?
They were all crazy, just nuts.
So how did an entire populationdo it?
Stupidity takes hold becauseeverybody around you starts to
seem to believe it and sincemost people don't have courage,
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remember that the basis of thispodcast is that, as God is dying
and religion is dying, if wedon't replace it with some other
philosophy, some otherunderpinning of decency and how
to live your lives and how tolook at life.
We're going to fall apartbecause we won't be able to keep
up with the evolution of ourown devices like AI.
I know it feels like I'mjumping around, but I'm not.
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Anyway, so when the masses?
There's so many examples today.
I don't want to dwell on Hitler, but how did everybody start
believing all that anti-Semiticcrud?
How did everybody start buyinginto the whole imperial goals of
that lunatic?
And the answer is really reallysimple Mass stupidity.
Now, hitler himself was thefurthest thing from stupid.
He was brilliant, but he wasstupid at the same time because
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I'm sure he wouldn't evenentertain a discussion.
I don't know, I never met himand I never will, thank God, but
we've all met people.
Let's now in a moment I'm goingto round it around to our
current experience, but just alittle background.
There was a German philosopher.
Actually he was a pastor and hewas alive at the time of the
Nazis.
His name was DietrichBonhoeffer.
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And Dietrich Bonhoeffer veryinteresting guy.
I think they made a movie abouthis life and I think it's
either on Netflix or Prime.
You should check it out anywayif you don't want to bother
reading about him.
So Dietrich Bonhoeffer was apastor, the real deal, a true
believer, the kind of guy thatif we were all like Dietrich
Bonhoeffer the world would be abetter place.
But we're not going to be alllike Dietrich Bonhoeffer and
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it's not.
And he was martyred for lack ofa better term in I think it was
1942 or 43.
He was an open and activeopponent of Hitler, even when it
was incredibly dangerous to doso, and he was executed.
But before he did it, before hewas executed, he had written a
lot up to that point.
He came from an intellectualfamily and intellectual
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background.
A lot of people don'tunderstand this, but Germany at
the time of World War I, when wecame in on the sides of the
British, the German people andthe German government, was far
more liberal, far more forgiving, far more liberal in the
classical sense and allowingpeople who had far more personal
freedom could openly criticizethe king, the Kaiser, and
allowing people who had far morepersonal freedom could openly
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criticize the king, the Kaiserand all the rest, and it was a
much more classically liberalsociety.
So how did it turn into Hitler?
Mass stupidity?
How does it do that Cowardice?
Cowardice when a mass believesidiocy and you're afraid to step
up because of the consequencesthat it might bring down upon
you, because you don't want tostand out in the crowd.
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And so what Dietrich Bonhoeffersaid is that we are defenseless
against stupidity.
It is our greatest threat as acivilization, because neither
force or reason have any poweragainst stupidity.
Power against stupidity whenyou speak of evil, like Nazism
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itself, it carries within it theseeds of its own destruction,
because the people carrying itout always feel uneasy about it.
In other words, once and I'llrelate it to my own experience
once I realized that I was doingan evil thing, committing the
crime that I perpetrated on 35people, knowingly or not, it
doesn't matter.
But when I became aware of it,I became immediately uneasy and
looking for the way out, which,in the end, I determined was
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falling on my own sort.
But having said that, there wasno way out.
Sometimes you do so many stupidthings, and without Simon
Braggie, I'm a really smart guyand I don't mean that to be a
brag, it's just.
The sheer luck of genetics is Ihad nothing to do withggie.
I'm a really smart guy and Idon't mean that to be a brag,
it's just.
You know, the sheer luck ofgenetics is I had nothing to do
with it.
But I'm smart, I pick upeverything.
So how can you be stupid andsmart at the same time?
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Well, when you're committingevil, you're really not stupid
because you get uneasy about it.
Evil is less threatening, iswhat I'm saying.
Evil is less dangerous becauseit's easier to recognize,
because it makes everybody who'scommitting it uneasy, and so
within it, within evil itself,lies the seeds of its own
self-destruction.
You know, hitler's own peopletried to bump him off, time
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after time after time, becausethey understood that what was
going on was evil.
And they tried in their ownineffective ways, evidently, not
more than evidently, obviously.
But there was a lot of unease,the problem, and there were a
lot of.
During the war with the, youknow an untold story, there were
plenty of Germans who knew whatwas going on and plenty of
Germans who knew that Nazism wasevil and plenty of Germans that
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opposed.
Because evil again carrieswithin it the seeds of its own
self-destruction, because itmakes everybody feel gross, okay
, but stupidity is impregnable,because and you'll recognize
this right away, and again, I'mnot the one who came up with
this thought, I'm just creditingit to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who
did Stupidity always, believesit's doing good, and stupidity
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always, always, serves existingpower structures.
Now just think about that.
So here we are today, and we'vetransitioned to a different set
of leadership in the last fewmonths, but for the last period
of years, and still half thepopulation, for example,
believes, at any given time, alot of things that are
absolutely stupid on the rightor left, and yet they're
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otherwise brilliant people, andso why do they go along with
this?
So let's pick a couple ofobvious, obvious stupidities.
For example, that there's morethan two genders.
Okay, there's only two genders.
You know what I know?
It is an objective fact.
Yet if you try to have thatdiscussion with a person who is
bought into the gender occultand all of these are cults.
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And, in my view, when peoplereally get going and they're and
they're massively stupid andthey go into the, they're not
evil.
They're stupid Even thoughthey're smart, which again
sounds contradictory, but it'snot.
It's when they simply believethat they're on the side of good
, that somehow that what they'redoing is the right thing to do.
Therefore they are justified indoing it, and they're not going
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to listen to anything you or meor anybody else has to say,
because they view us as the evilones and what they're doing as
right, and they are so wrappedin their self-righteousness.
Then, when they become part ofa larger group, as somehow this
poison I mean to me this iswhere the democratic party
jumped the shark and destroyedits own future was on this
particular issue, because itmakes so many people obviously
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recognize it as evil, because itmakes them feel gross it makes
me feel gross even talking aboutit but the people within it
think that they are on the sideof God in their own mind, of
whatever they perceive that tobe, and that's what makes them
so dangerous.
Another good example is theclimate cult.
Okay, now is the world warming?
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Probably.
Again, I've looked at a lot ofdata.
I'm actually very into thissubject myself.
I've looked at all the harddata and all the evidence.
I've actually read the IPCCreport, which is the UN report
on the climate and warming, andso on and so forth, and the
graph is very long.
When I say I, a more honestdescription would be I skimmed
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it because it was very deep andin certain areas where I had
absolutely no expertise andwasn't sure what I was reading,
but overall I got the idea, andthe idea is that there is no
certainty.
You know this idea that 90 namethe number, 95%, 98%, 99% of
quote, unquote scientists acatch-all term.
That's another thing thatstupid people do.
They cite scientists can bejust as stupid as anybody else.
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You can have a PhD and be anidiot, okay.
And because once you buy into acult, for whatever the reason,
and you have given up your rightto call yourself smart, you are
, in this respect at least,stupid Again.
You won't listen to reason.
So here, given up your right tocall yourself smart, you are,
in this respect at least, stupidAgain.
You won't listen to reason.
So here you know the actualevidence on global climate
change, just if you'reinterested, is that 65% of the
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measurements that have beentaken to even support how far
the climate has risen so far,those measurements are all wrong
because 65% of them were takenin what are called urban islands
.
I live in an urban island.
I can tell you what that is.
I live in Phoenix, arizona, andPhoenix Arizona, as all of you
know, is in the middle of adesert and it gets very, very
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hot.
But as hot as it is, phoenix isalways 10 degrees hotter than
everything around it because ofthe pavement.
I mean there's just so muchconcrete and, as we all know,
concrete retains heat.
That's why, if you lived inPhoenix a lot of times, you'll
not a lot of times.
I don't want you to those ofyou who are thinking about ever
visiting Phoenix.
I've lived here.
I've lived in Arizona now for,let's see, since 19, roughly
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1980, 81.
So I've lived here 40, what?
45 years?
In 45 years I've seen scorpionstwice.
I mean, you know it's notsomething that you regularly see
, and the only time you'll seethem is like around a
construction site where they'vedug up things and they kind of
disturb them, rattlesnakes.
You virtually I've seen them,and this is the point I'm coming
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to.
Where you'll see them is ifreally early in the morning,
you'll see them out on thepavement on the roads at certain
times of year warmingthemselves Because the pavement
retain heat.
So not during the summer, wheneverything's really warm, but
during the fall when they'rejust about to go into
hibernation.
You don't see them in thewinter because they're cold
blooded animals and theybasically just become far less
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active in the wintertime.
It's much safer in terms ofjust walking around the desert
blindly in winter than summer.
But anyway, what they do towarm themselves is.
They'll come into an urbanisland like Phoenix or Tucson or
Casa Grande or different placeswhere there's a lot of concrete
, like here in Arizona, andyou'll see them out early in the
morning on the pavement warmingthemselves up, getting
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themselves ready to go out.
By the way, just as a side note,rattlesnakes and other snakes
are your friend because they eatrodents.
And, unless you'd like yourhouse full of rats and mice, do
not kill snakes, poisonous orotherwise.
Leave them alone.
They are our friends.
They don't smell, they don'tmake noise and the last thing
they want to do is see you.
So if you see one and youhappen to be out and about,
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you're visiting or you live inan area like this, don't
automatically kill the snake,you know, call pest control If
you're.
If you're afraid of them andhave them, just move them back
out into the natural environmentand if you're not afraid of
them, get where was I going withthat in touch?
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Oh, the urban islands.
So it's much, much warmer,which disrupts all the
measurements.
So all of you who are panickedand think the earth has already
gone up one and a half degrees,which is what it was supposed to
do in the entire 21st century.
And now the climate cult and alot of stupidity forms itself as
a cult and the only differencebetween a cult and mass
stupidity is there's no centralleader, but they behave as if
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there's.
You know, there are Moonies,like the group from South Korea,
anyway, another group.
If you don't understand that,I'm not going to go into it.
But anyway, the bottom line isthey're beyond reason.
You know that fact alone.
If I said to a climate cultist,if Greta Thunberg, why we, by
the way, were worried about whata high school dropout, autistic
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teenager thought, is beyond me.
I mean, that's a case of massstupidity.
But anyway, they, she wouldn'tlisten.
She would just stick herfingers in her ears and go la,
la, la, la la, eithermetaphorically or literally,
because she's a cultist, she'sjust, she believes what she
believes, she thinks she's right, she thinks she's smart.
She probably is smart.
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A lot of the people in theclimate cult are brilliant.
There are plenty of PhDs andscientists who buy into it.
But they buy into it forreasons that you don't know,
which is basically self-interest, and they're funded by
government grants and thegovernment grants.
Up until the time, at least,that Trump took office, you had
to pretend you were in the cult,otherwise.
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Pretend you were in the cult,otherwise you wouldn't get the
money.
So I mean, believe me, it's aself-perpetuating cycle of
stupidity.
But the fact of the matter isyou can't argue with them, so
they won't listen to that.
In fact, the temperature has notgone up one and a half degrees
because all the measurements arewrong.
How far has it gone up?
No one knows, because all themeasurements are wrong.
Even the ones that are outsideof the urban islands are
misplaced.
There are rules on where toplace temperature measuring
stations, but over the years,you know, cities grow and things
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happen and concrete is pourednear them.
There's supposed to be acertain number of feet I forget
how many but away from allconcrete.
And yet even the ones that arenot in urban islands are a lot
of times located around, youknow, truck stops and things
that disrupt the accuratereading of temperature.
So, number one, we have no ideaif the planet, how how much the
planet, is warm.
We think it's warm and a lot ofthe things you see are out of
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context, like, for example,you'll see the picture of the
dying polar bear, when in factthe objective reality is we've
never had more polar bears.
They just showed you thepicture of an old, dying polar
bear, and polar bears die likehuman beings die, and that's
what they look like when theydied.
It had nothing to do.
There are now more polar bearsthan there have ever been and
they're breeding like crazybecause they're protected by law
and their habitat is notshrinking.
You see the pictures of theGreenland ice sheet and it looks
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like it's all dropping into theocean, but they're showing it
to you in the summertime and inthe winter it freezes right back
up again.
And they show you the GreatBarrier Reef and you say to them
that coral bleaching is anatural phenomenon that happens
all the time, that in fact, theGreat Barrier Reef today is
bigger than it's ever been.
It came back from the so-calledglobal warming bleaching in
spades.
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It's a normal thing.
It's the cycle of life within alittle animal called a
zooxanthellae, which is theanimal that creates the
exoskeleton that we see as coral.
And anyway, long story short, Ionly know that, by the way, I
was just that there.
Right, there was me beingarrogant.
We're not arrogant showing off,because when I went to Miami
Beach High School, we actuallyhad a course in marine biology
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and I learned how a coral reefis built.
So I was just showing off mylittle trivial knowledge of the
animal.
Anyway, pardon me, see, I'm ahuman being.
Sometimes I can't help myself.
I'm smart and stupid likeeverybody else.
So, anyway, stupidity is tough.
So you can't reason with themis the point I'm making.
I was talking about transgender.
You can't reason with them.
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There's no evidence that can bepresented.
And within the cult, there area lot of people, like, for
example, in Hollywood today, whowill not admit that a lot of
the things that these actors areespousing are just insane.
A lot of them have bought intothe climate cult and a lot of
them have bought into the genderdysphoria cult and you know all
of these things.
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None of them understandeconomics, they never stop to
think if it makes sense and alot of them are perfectly
intelligent people.
The problem is they are stupidat the same time because they
have bought into a masspsychology and if they were to
speak up, they would be shunned.
And if you don't think that'strue and take it from me Now, I
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briefly, when I got out ofprison and after about a year or
so, I decided I'd like to startdating again.
So I stuck my toe in the waterof e-dating until I realized
that it's the hiding place ofevery sexual deviant in society,
male and female, and decided itwasn't worth it.
But in the meantime, as I wentinto it, many, many, many of the
profiles on, for example,matchcom start with the sentence
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if you're a Trump supporter,don't contact me.
Now let's just stop and thinkhow stupid that is for a moment.
It's it's defining anotherhuman being entirely by one one
set of beliefs within acomplicated spectrum of beliefs
that every human being holds.
Yet people judge theirfriendships and their
relationships based upon, inthis case, politics, and it's
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politics based upon issues forwhich they are stupid, because
they have never stopped for amoment to think about why they
believe what they believe, andeven when they have doubts, they
fight them down because they'retoo cowardly to stand out in
the crowd Even to question.
When you're within a cult ofstupidity, like climate change,
like gender dysphoria you becomeafraid of saying anything else.
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You wouldn't dare speak up.
That's why, occasionally,you'll see an interview done
with a Hollywood star and theywill evade a lot of politicians.
But politicians areprofessional liars and they stop
even knowing what they believeso.
Otherwise intelligent peopleare made stupid by politics and
they have to buy into it.
Why do people continuallysupport things that otherwise
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intelligent people who are notstupid on that particular
subject?
Because we all have our blindstupidities.
They're beyond reason andthat's what makes them so
dangerous.
Because we live in a democracyand democracy is evil, and we
are so collectively stupid on somany subjects.
And since all of us are allowedto vote, who can basically draw
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breath?
You know, over the age of 18,then consequently, we get a lot
of stupid people voting onissues that they're afraid.
Even when they have doubts,they don't bother to even reason
them because they into morestupidity than ever as human
beings, and this is a fatal flawthat has to be corrected, which
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is why I say democracy is evil.
Democracy is evil becausedemocracy is stupid.
Democracy is mass stupidity.
There's a reason why thefounders set up a republic.
They set up a republic becausethey knew people were stupid.
Now, dietrich Bonhoeffer wasn'talive in the 1700s.
You know.
He died.
It was either 1942 or 43, Ithink it was that they literally
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chopped his head off in NaziGermany.
And anyway, the point of thematter is, stupidity has been
coming around in many forms forsince the dawn of mankind.
And the founders went toprevent it by setting us up as a
republic with certainsafeguards, like property
ownership, like having senatorsselected by state legislatures
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and therefore could be removedbefore the end of their term
much more easily if they wentoff the reservation into crazy
land, or stupid land as we mightcall it in this podcast.
But those are all gone nowcreated a stupid democracy.
Not only are we a democracy,but we're a stupid democracy and
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we're becoming increasinglymore stupid.
And it's not like people on theright can't be stupid.
If you think I'm just pickingon people on the left, think
again.
People on the right can be justas stupid about lots and lots
of subjects.
I'll give you a great exampleof a right-wing issue where
people are stupid the drug war.
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There is no rational case to bemade to continue drug
enforcement.
The rational case is we'vespent the trillion dollars since
1971 and stopped nothing.
And, like all prohibitions,historically the drug war hasn't
worked.
It can't work because what weknow from history is if the
people want it, they're going toget it, legal or not.
And what will happen is youcreate a black market, and
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that's what the drug war is.
We're trying to combat a blackmarket.
Well, as Thomas Sowell says, myfavorite living economist and
intellectual and God bless himand I hope he lives to be 190.
He's in his 90s now.
I dread the day to be 190.
He's in his 90s now.
I dread the day that he leaves.
It'll be a tragedy for theworld.
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But Thomas Sowell has said that.
You know, whenever someonecomes up with an idea, like a
government program or an ideathat changed the world, the
first question you have to askyourself is as compared to what?
Okay, when has this ever beendone before that it actually
worked?
You know, and the answer isthere are no successful examples
of democracies that don't endin tyranny, and there are no
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examples of, for example, socialprograms that don't end in
tyranny.
And there's no examples ofprohibitions that don't end in
failure.
100% of the time in the historyof the world, every government
that has ever tried to prohibitanything that the public wanted
has failed.
So we're just failing Now.
That argument is objective andironclad, and I have lots of
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data to support that, becausethis is a subject I'm passionate
about and we'll talk about thedrug war in detail another day.
But having said that, thepeople on the right are stupid
about it.
They stop at.
Drugs are bad.
Drugs are bad.
Therefore they won't listen toanything else.
Yeah, but look at how manypeople are dying.
Well, maybe we could do betterif we treated it, for example.
I'll give you an example of anargument I might make to
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somebody Drugs are bad, we haveto be illegal, we have to crack
down, we have to go get them,yada, yada, yada.
And I would say what I justtold you, so I'm not going to
repeat it and I would also sayI'm not arguing the drugs are
good.
I'm just saying that weshouldn't criminalize people who
are self-loathing.
You know, addiction is reallythe self-medication of
self-loathing and depression,and these people are trying to
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get through the day, and bymaking their drug of choice
illegal, we're making itexpensive.
And by making it expensive,we're making it so they have to
commit crime in order to supporttheir habits unless they're
lucky enough to be Hunter Bidenand consequently, because they
have to steal, they end up inprisons and we end up
imprisoning people who areotherwise simply sad, and you
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can't compare to perfection.
There will always be addictivepeople.
There will always be sad people.
The question is do we want tocontinually not just waste money
but destroy our society?
And a large contributor to thebreakdown of the urban
environment, and particularlythe black inner city urban
environment, is the drug war.
The drug war itself is causingan awful lot of problems.
Again, this is not about thedrug war.
I'm just telling you people onthe right can be just as stupid
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as people on the left and beabsolutely brilliant at the same
time.
You know President Trump isdead set against legalizing
drugs, but he's the furthestthing from unintelligent.
He is stupid on this subject.
You know, people get stupid onsubjects and then they can't be
reasoned with.
That's how you know you'redealing with stupidity instead
of an honest discussion.
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If you get into a cultist, aperson who has bought into a
mass stupidity will becomehostile right away and they'll
resort to slogans as opposed toif I say, for example, there's
been no historic prohibition.
They won't go and try to findone that's worked.
They won't try to like evenmake the connection to one that
may be a half-ass work.
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Instead, they go right to drugsare bad.
Well, that's just stupid.
Everyone gets the point Rightand left.
They're not immune to stupidity.
So I have a few suggestions.
I don't want to just complainand bitch and moan on this
podcast.
I have a few suggestions ofways that we could reduce we'll
never eliminate, but hopefullyreduce stupidity.
One of the problems I think thatwe face, if not the central
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issue, is is that people are nottaught to be critical thinkers
in school.
Okay, I don't expect theirparents to teach them, because
their parents were raised bytheir parents, who went to the
same schools and have for thelast century and a half.
Public education has alwaysbeen a form of indoctrination,
originally for workers into theindustrial revolution, and now
it's.
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I don't know what it is.
It's a disaster, but we aregoing through a massive natural
reorder, a reordering of publiceducation chart.
We're replacing schooldistricts with charters which,
by the way, are publicly fundedprivate schools essentially.
I mean, I don't want to getinto again, that's another
discussion for another day but Ihave some suggestions.
We have to start teaching thepeople not what to believe, but
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how to think.
Okay, we have to spend lesstime.
We have to spend no time,ideally although we'll never
reach an ideal, because subjectsare taught by human beings and
human beings have their biasesand their stupidities.
But if we have to have acurriculum, a curriculum is a
track to run on.
If you're a teacher, tell me ifI'm wrong, write me if you
think I'm wrong, but thecurriculum is simply the track
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you run on and then you use yourown talents and personality as
a teacher to teach thatcurriculum and, hopefully, make
a connection with enoughstudents that you don't turn out
a class full of morons.
Having said that, I have somesuggestions for a new curriculum
.
So I think what we need to doas part of this and think what
we need to do as part of thisand, again, not being stupid.
I'm opening it up fordiscussion with you.
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These are some ideas that I'vehad in addition to anti-politism
, which I'll round about on as Iclose today, but some ideas
that I have of what we could doto prevent as much as possible
stupidity.
And that starts with.
My first suggestion is weshould teach critical thinking
and study philosophy in highschools, starting with freshmen.
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In high school Freshmans.
I almost pluralized the pluralword.
What a retard I am.
See, smart people can be stupid, although that was not stupid,
that was dumb, which thedifference is.
I know better and I'm willingto admit it right away.
Anyway, we need to teachcritical thinking, how to think
critically, and I think we needto teach Stoicism in school as a
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governing and guiding centralphilosophy that is compatible
with Christianity and Judaismand Islam in its core principles
.
But for those increasing amountsof people a large minority now,
but ultimately inevitably willbecome a majority of people that
don't believe in God and don'tpractice religion, this is
critical.
They have to have a way tothink things through and not
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just fall back on beliefs thatare now discredited.
We know that God doesn't makethe sun rise and set.
We know that God didn't createthe moon and the stars and the
heaven for us to look at aslights and all this kind of
stuff.
I can go through it.
It was a nice mythology and itserved it incredibly and still
serves.
I wish everybody could somehowresummon faith, but faith was a
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lot easier when you didn't knowhow science worked.
But now that we all know howeverything works as a result of
scientific inquiry, increasinglyGod is dying and we have to
replace that with something, andwhat I say is let's replace it
with critical thinking andstoicism, which should be a
course.
Kids should be taught thisthroughout high school.
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Okay.
Whether or not they go tocollege should be immaterial.
This should not be acollege-level course for only
the elite to understandphilosophy, because by that time
they're all too stupid stupidto understand it anyway because
of the biases that have beendownloaded in them during their
most formative years and they'rejust going to be lost.
So, number one teach criticalthinking and stoicism in high
school.
Number two we also need tointroduce into the high school
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curriculum, beginning with thefreshman year, what is
essentially econ 101.
We need to teach economics sothat people understand how money
works.
People have a much greaterunderstanding of stupid versus
smart in a broader sense and inthe sense that most impacts
their families and their futuremarriages and children and
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everything else, if theyunderstand economics.
Not to say that there stillwon't be.
There are a lot of stupidpeople, for example, who blindly
and I'm going to point to myown group, boomers in particular
who blindly will go apeshit ifyou threaten to discuss the
reforming of Social Security,which has to be reformed.
I'm not going to go into a longdiscussion again today, but it
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has to be, and the bottom lineis people, otherwise brilliant
people, turn stupid when thissubject comes up.
Well, I'll pay it into it, goddamn it.
And I need, I deserve my money,and don't you mess with it.
And blah, blah, blah, and theyhave the money.
And whenever you get to thepoint where we just don't have
the money for it, they always gooh yeah, they have the money,
they'll find the money.
No, that's stupidity.
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Okay, if you believe thatyou're stupid, Now you might be
brilliant Again.
I know I'm harping on this overand over, but you're beyond,
you're not going to listen.
You know I can give you all thereasons why, but it won't make
any difference, because on thisone subject that this is what
you believe you're stupid.
Okay.
And the way to fight a lot ofthat kind of stupidity is to
introduce economics in the highschool curriculum.
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You know, we teach all kinds ofcrap.
Get rid of social studies andbring in economics.
Okay, it's much more importantSocial studies, which I don't
even like that word.
You know.
There should be history andthere should be economics, there
shouldn't be social studies.
What the hell does that mean?
So, anyway, and number three,the government.
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And I, you know, as alibertarian, naturally I'd like
this to be privately funded, butthere needs to be a national
video campaign of videos both onthe internet and on broadcast
television and everywhere.
It is of little, 30 second spots, maybe 60 second spots entitled
.
Does it Make Sense whensomebody rational, who is on the
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subject, smart and not stupid,goes on and explains individual
subjects?
Are there more than two genders?
Okay, could be one of thesespots.
Does that make any sense?
And the answer is no, it doesnot.
And for 30 seconds, points outwhy and goes on.
Now, again, the stupid willreject it.
But there are the people on theline who could be affected by
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the stupid and when they're awayfrom the stupid they say to
each other that seemed prettystupid, but when they're with
the stupid they'll go.
Yeah, of course, of course thatyou know your child has blah,
blah, blah and they'll go alongwith it because of a lack of
courage.
That's why, again, we go tostoicism.
The four pillars of stoicismcourage is always the first one
mentioned, then justice, wisdom,moderation.
But you can't have any of theother three without courage.
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It doesn't matter if you havethe other three without courage.
So, people, you know, most ofus really don't want to get into
a fight, we don't want toconfront anybody, so we sit
there and we go yeah, okay,that's whatever you say, that
makes perfect sense, blah, blah,blah.
But the truth is just sense,blah, blah, blah.
But the truth is just like wedid the national campaign with
the Indian, with the cry and tostop littering those of you old
enough to remember it literallycleaned up littering in this
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country, seemingly overnight, bybringing shame upon the
American people, which was agood thing in that case.
Well, I got news for you.
We can do the same thing withstupidity, we can go on, and it
would also help calm people down.
You know, is there climatechange?
Yes, there is, but there's.
We don't even know what wedon't know.
And there are hundreds, if notthousands, and maybe millions of
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factors bombarding the Earthwith various kinds of radiation
from the Sun, the orbit of theEarth, the axis of the Earth,
how the Moon affects the Earth,how other planets.
Jupiter's gravity affects us agreat deal.
A lot of people don'tunderstand that, but it does.
Jupiter is essentially a starthat never formed but has
enormous, enormous gravitationalpull.
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All of these things affect ourclimate, and the intelligent
discussion on the climatesubject, by the way, would be to
say the human race does three.
Here's how an intelligentperson I'll use the climate cult
as a good example of howotherwise rational people are
stupid but could possibly, maybe, if it's repeated enough who
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knows, especially that group youknow in that gray area in the
middle that aren't completelycommitted to their stupidity
might come around to rationalityand intelligence by simply
repeating look the human racehistorically does.
There are three things we coulddo about climate change, and two
of them we do really reallywell, and one of them we do
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we've never done, which isprevention.
The human race doesn't prevent.
We don't do it To expect thatthe global economy is going to
somehow convert to theserenewables that none of these
people in the climate calledunderstand in the first place.
Not really Ask the people inSpain and Portugal who lost all
their power a week ago or so.
Anyway, rather, we don'tprevent.
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It's a pipe dream.
We've spent now globally about$5 trillion to do nothing.
We've had no effect on theplanet's climate and yet still
the stupids of the climate cultinsist we need to do more, more,
more, more, more.
It'll fail.
It will fail 100% of the time,because human beings don't
prevent.
What we do exceptionally wellis mitigate and invent.
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Okay, and that's where so anintelligent.
So if you're going to run the 30second spot on climate change,
it would go something like thisLadies and gentlemen, I'm going
to speak to you today aboutclimate change.
Climate change is real.
What we don't know is how muchis caused by mankind, if at all,
and how much will be coming inthe future.
But what we do know is we wantto be prepared for it, but at
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the same time, since there is noexample of any civilization in
the history of the world everpreventing anything they saw
coming, we are not going to bethe first ones, let alone, even
if the United States didparticipate in this, it would
destroy our economy and, at thevery same time, the rest of the
world would be unaffected and wewould only destroy ourselves to
no effect whatsoever.
So, rather than spend timetrying to prevent something that
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we're not going to prevent, itis coming.
We also need to understand it'scoming very, very slowly.
For example, the sea is risingat less than an inch a month, as
it has for the last 120 yearsor so of taking measurements,
which means it's coming very,very slow.
It's not coming in like a tidalwave.
It's slowly creeping up.
Plenty of time to mitigate.
We know how to hold back thesea.
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We do it really well.
Ask the Dutch.
They've been doing it forhundreds of years.
Ask the Bangladeshis, who werewith, by the way, the help of
the Netherlands are buildingenormous dikes and protections
against having their below sealevel land flooded.
We know how to prevent flooding.
We're not going to just standthere as the water comes up to
our knees.
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Florida is not going to gounderwater.
New York City is not going togo underwater.
We are going to mitigate itbecause we do it really really
well.
The technology to do that existsand that's what we'll do.
I know this is way too long acommercial spot.
I'm trying to demonstrate, butof course I'm expanding in the
podcast and the other thing thatwe can do is invent.
We will invent ways out of itby the time the 22nd century
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comes and we're supposedly goingto be too far to go by that
time we'll have nuclear fusionpowering everything clean
without any cost at all, orsomething similar, or we'll find
better batteries, better cells.
That's the thing aboutinvention.
Us non-inventors have no ideawhat's coming.
But literally, as I speak toyou, one of the great strains of
the United States is as a freeeconomy.
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There are a million people outthere thinking they can get rich
with this next invention, whichis why greed is good, but
that's another subject foranother day, and I almost went
to a digression on greed, butI'm not going to go there.
I felt myself being pulled, butI'm going to stop.
The point of the matter is,we're very good at inventing.
We are going to invent our wayout of it.
There will be plenty of otheralternatives of things to do.
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Look how far we've come.
It is now 2025.
In 1925, we were flying biplanes, and now Elon Musk is about to
launch Starship Nine and we areprobably less than a decade away
from people on Mars.
Okay, or at least certainlyOptimus robots or something like
it.
So look how far the technologyhas come.
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In 1925, there were biplanes.
There was no artificialintelligence, there were no
computers.
We were in industrial age, butthere was no technology to speak
of.
Antibiotics had not beeninvented yet, women were still
dying, childbirth, the averagelifespan was in the low 60s.
I can go on and on and on.
We have come a very long way ina very short time.
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So by 2125, I assure you thatthe world will look different
and it is sheer stupidity tobelieve that we, even now, in
the present, need to worry aboutthat.
That is something that will allbe dead.
Every single person listeningto me now, in 21, 25, will be
dead.
So let's be smart andconcentrate on today what we do
well, okay, which is mitigationand invention, and just not
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worry about prevention, becauseit's never happened and it never
will.
Okay, let's wrap up thispodcast and sum it up by saying
let's not be stupid.
Mass stupidity is a greaterthreat than anything else facing
us.
Mass stupidity.
Don't be a stupid.
Listen to the other person,listen to the facts.
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I know I'm probably talking tomyself, because that would take
courage to go against.
You know, if everyone in yourfamily thinks one way and you're
the one person going.
But what if I understand howtough that is, but also
understand that you're beingstupid.
Okay, that was kind of a lowway to end the podcast, but it
is Okay.
Now, to prevent the stupidityruining our country, I've
invented a political system.
It is a republic by lottery, amerit-based lottery.
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I know how strange that sounds.
Read the book.
It's called A Radical Reset.
A Radical Reset.
It's available to you on Amazonby me, herbie K.
Pick it up.
It lays out anti-politism thattakes the ambition and the money
out of politics.
Politics is converted from acareer to a service and a duty,
and that changes everything.
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Read about it.
It's interesting, it'sdifferent, and I don't like to
talk about myself as theinventor of antipolitism.
I am the discoverer ofantipolitism, like the New World
.
When Christopher Columbus came,it was always there.
He discovered it, but he didn'tinvent it.
I discovered antipolitism.
I don't think I invented it.
He discovered it, but he didn'tinvent it.
I discovered anti-politism.
I don't think I invented it.
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I think it's just so obvious.
And once you read the book, Ithink you'll go oh my God, why
haven't we been doing this fromthe start?
We need to get rid of themegalomaniacs and the sociopaths
and the psychopaths thatcurrently populate our public
life and replace it with peoplewho are there because they've
done something with their livesand they have a strong sense of
duty and they're not stupid.
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Okay, my friends, don't forgetto share this podcast with your
friends.
Talk amongst yourselves andI'll be back with you this
coming Friday.
We'll see what goes on in theworld.
I'm hoping all good things and,most importantly, I'm hoping
all good things for you, takecare.
God bless you and God blessAmerica.
Good morning everyone .
It's me, herbie, your host heretoday at the Spiritual Agnostic
, here today, here and every day, since it's my podcast.
Today we're going to talk aboutstupidity To.
Stupidity is going to be at thetop of our list, but it's not
going to be your.
I don't know, maybe it is, whatdo I know?
But as far as I know, this isnot the typical discussion of
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stupidity, because stupidity, tobegin with, I want to define it
, okay, and then I'm going toput it in the context of why I
think it's so important for usto discuss it.
Stupidity is not the lack ofintelligence, but the lack of
curiosity or even a willingnessto listen, and in that respect,
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it's far more dangerous thanevil.
So, to my mind, see, evil iseasy to spot once it gets
underway, but stupidity is awhole different story.
A lot of people, includingmyself and my own experience,
back into being evil.
I did evil things before Irealized they were evil, okay,
but once I was exposed to thereality of what I did, I
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immediately saw that what I didwas evil and stopped and fell on
my sword.
Now, having said that, we livein a culture where there's so
much stupidity, where the peoplewho are stupid are also
incredibly intelligent, and thatis not a contradiction.
Our culture is suffering fromstupidity and people otherwise
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brilliant people can be stupid.
I think it was at Yale they dida.
It might have been.
It was one of the Ivy Leagueschools.
I think it was Yale, might havebeen Stanford, which is, by
when I say Ivy League schools,stanford is the equivalent of an
Ivy just on the West Coast.
Anyway, they're all kind ofpolluted now, but that's another
story and I digress.
Our major universities teachstupidity, but anyway, stupidity
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.
They ran some experiments.
Come to think of it.
I think it was Stanford.
Anyway, you can write me andtell me which it is.
I'm not going to bother lookingit up because it's not
important where it came from,only that it happened and you'll
recognize this.
They did a series ofexperiments where they had
students on one side of a wallhooked up to an electroshock
machine and students on theother side of the wall with the
buzzer to hit them, and I think,if memory serves, they weren't
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really electrocuting anybody,but the students with the shoot
the shit out of the buzzerthought they were, and we're so
the way.
This.
It was basically an experimentto see if people will follow
directions given to them byauthority, even when they know
it's it's wrong.
And it's a demonstration of how,for example, an entire
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population in Germany ofotherwise intelligent people can
elect someone as evil as AdolfHitler.
It's stupidity, it's massstupidity.
Hitler's a good example of howstupidity can really take hold
of things, and I know it's anextreme example and I'm not
citing that.
Anybody in the United States isroughly Hitlerian.
That's just lazy.
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When people start comparingDonald Trump to Hitler, that's
an absurd comparison.
But how did Hitler?
How did Nazism, itself aninherently evil?
Okay, and really, if you readMein Kampf, which I have managed
to wade through, hitler wasn'texactly Shakespeare and he laid
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it all out and the whole thingwas stupid and the racial
connections were let me not usethe word stupid, because we're
talking about stupidity, isn'tit?
They were all crazy, just nuts.
So how did an entire populationdo it?
Stupidity takes hold becauseeverybody around you starts to
seem to believe it and sincemost people don't have courage,
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remember that the basis of thispodcast is that, as God is dying
and religion is dying, if wedon't replace it with some other
philosophy, some otherunderpinning of decency and how
to live your lives and how tolook at life.
We're going to fall apartbecause we won't be able to keep
up with the evolution of ourown devices like AI.
I know it feels like I'mjumping around, but I'm not.
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Anyway, so when the masses?
There's so many examples today.
I don't want to dwell on Hitler, but how did everybody start
believing all that anti-Semiticcrud?
How did everybody start buyinginto the whole imperial goals of
that lunatic?
And the answer is really reallysimple Mass stupidity.
Now, hitler himself was thefurthest thing from stupid.
He was brilliant, but he wasstupid at the same time because
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I'm sure he wouldn't evenentertain a discussion.
I don't know, I never met himand I never will, thank God, but
we've all met people.
Let's now in a moment I'm goingto round it around to our
current experience, but just alittle background.
There was a German philosopher.
Actually he was a pastor and hewas alive at the time of the
Nazis.
His name was DietrichBonhoeffer.
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And Dietrich Bonhoeffer veryinteresting guy.
I think they made a movie abouthis life and I think it's
either on Netflix or Prime.
You should check it out anywayif you don't want to bother
reading about him.
So Dietrich Bonhoeffer was apastor, the real deal, a true
believer, the kind of guy thatif we were all like Dietrich
Bonhoeffer the world would be abetter place.
But we're not going to be alllike Dietrich Bonhoeffer and
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it's not.
And he was martyred for lack ofa better term in I think it was
1942 or 43.
He was an open and activeopponent of Hitler, even when it
was incredibly dangerous to doso, and he was executed.
But before he did it, before hewas executed, he had written a
lot up to that point.
He came from an intellectualfamily and intellectual
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background.
A lot of people don'tunderstand this, but Germany at
the time of World War I, when wecame in on the sides of the
British, the German people andthe German government, was far
more liberal, far more forgiving, far more liberal in the
classical sense and allowingpeople who had far more personal
freedom could openly criticizethe king, the Kaiser, and
allowing people who had far morepersonal freedom could openly
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criticize the king, the Kaiserand all the rest, and it was a
much more classically liberalsociety.
So how did it turn into Hitler?
Mass stupidity?
How does it do that Cowardice?
Cowardice when a mass believesidiocy and you're afraid to step
up because of the consequencesthat it might bring down upon
you, because you don't want tostand out in the crowd.
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And so what Dietrich Bonhoeffersaid is that we are defenseless
against stupidity.
It is our greatest threat as acivilization, because neither
force or reason have any poweragainst stupidity.
Power against stupidity whenyou speak of evil, like Nazism
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itself, it carries within it theseeds of its own destruction,
because the people carrying itout always feel uneasy about it.
In other words, once and I'llrelate it to my own experience
once I realized that I was doingan evil thing, committing the
crime that I perpetrated on 35people, knowingly or not, it
doesn't matter.
But when I became aware of it,I became immediately uneasy and
looking for the way out, which,in the end, I determined was
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falling on my own sort.
But having said that, there wasno way out.
Sometimes you do so many stupidthings, and without Simon
Braggie, I'm a really smart guyand I don't mean that to be a
brag, it's just.
The sheer luck of genetics is Ihad nothing to do withggie.
I'm a really smart guy and Idon't mean that to be a brag,
it's just.
You know, the sheer luck ofgenetics is I had nothing to do
with it.
But I'm smart, I pick upeverything.
So how can you be stupid andsmart at the same time?
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Well, when you're committingevil, you're really not stupid
because you get uneasy about it.
Evil is less threatening, iswhat I'm saying.
Evil is less dangerous becauseit's easier to recognize,
because it makes everybody who'scommitting it uneasy, and so
within it, within evil itself,lies the seeds of its own
self-destruction.
You know, hitler's own peopletried to bump him off, time
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after time after time, becausethey understood that what was
going on was evil.
And they tried in their ownineffective ways, evidently, not
more than evidently, obviously.
But there was a lot of unease,the problem, and there were a
lot of.
During the war with the, youknow an untold story, there were
plenty of Germans who knew whatwas going on and plenty of
Germans who knew that Nazism wasevil and plenty of Germans that
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opposed.
Because evil again carrieswithin it the seeds of its own
self-destruction, because itmakes everybody feel gross, okay
, but stupidity is impregnable,because and you'll recognize
this right away, and again, I'mnot the one who came up with
this thought, I'm just creditingit to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who
did Stupidity always, believesit's doing good, and stupidity
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always, always, serves existingpower structures.
Now just think about that.
So here we are today, and we'vetransitioned to a different set
of leadership in the last fewmonths, but for the last period
of years, and still half thepopulation, for example,
believes, at any given time, alot of things that are
absolutely stupid on the rightor left, and yet they're
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otherwise brilliant people, andso why do they go along with
this?
So let's pick a couple ofobvious, obvious stupidities.
For example, that there's morethan two genders.
Okay, there's only two genders.
You know what I know?
It is an objective fact.
Yet if you try to have thatdiscussion with a person who is
bought into the gender occultand all of these are cults.
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And, in my view, when peoplereally get going and they're and
they're massively stupid andthey go into the, they're not
evil.
They're stupid Even thoughthey're smart, which again
sounds contradictory, but it'snot.
It's when they simply believethat they're on the side of good
, that somehow that what they'redoing is the right thing to do.
Therefore they are justified indoing it, and they're not going
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to listen to anything you or meor anybody else has to say,
because they view us as the evilones and what they're doing as
right, and they are so wrappedin their self-righteousness.
Then, when they become part ofa larger group, as somehow this
poison I mean to me this iswhere the democratic party
jumped the shark and destroyedits own future was on this
particular issue, because itmakes so many people obviously
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recognize it as evil, because itmakes them feel gross it makes
me feel gross even talking aboutit but the people within it
think that they are on the sideof God in their own mind, of
whatever they perceive that tobe, and that's what makes them
so dangerous.
Another good example is theclimate cult.
Okay, now is the world warming?
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Probably.
Again, I've looked at a lot ofdata.
I'm actually very into thissubject myself.
I've looked at all the harddata and all the evidence.
I've actually read the IPCCreport, which is the UN report
on the climate and warming, andso on and so forth, and the
graph is very long.
When I say I, a more honestdescription would be I skimmed
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it because it was very deep andin certain areas where I had
absolutely no expertise andwasn't sure what I was reading,
but overall I got the idea, andthe idea is that there is no
certainty.
You know this idea that 90 namethe number, 95%, 98%, 99% of
quote, unquote scientists acatch-all term.
That's another thing thatstupid people do.
They cite scientists can bejust as stupid as anybody else.
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You can have a PhD and be anidiot, okay.
And because once you buy into acult, for whatever the reason,
and you have given up your rightto call yourself smart, you are
, in this respect at least,stupid Again.
You won't listen to reason.
So here, given up your right tocall yourself smart, you are,
in this respect at least, stupidAgain.
You won't listen to reason.
So here you know the actualevidence on global climate
change, just if you'reinterested, is that 65% of the
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measurements that have beentaken to even support how far
the climate has risen so far,those measurements are all wrong
because 65% of them were takenin what are called urban islands
.
I live in an urban island.
I can tell you what that is.
I live in Phoenix, arizona, andPhoenix Arizona, as all of you
know, is in the middle of adesert and it gets very, very
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hot.
But as hot as it is, phoenix isalways 10 degrees hotter than
everything around it because ofthe pavement.
I mean there's just so muchconcrete and, as we all know,
concrete retains heat.
That's why, if you lived inPhoenix a lot of times, you'll
not a lot of times.
I don't want you to those ofyou who are thinking about ever
visiting Phoenix.
I've lived here.
I've lived in Arizona now for,let's see, since 19, roughly
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1980, 81.
So I've lived here 40, what?
45 years?
In 45 years I've seen scorpionstwice.
I mean, you know it's notsomething that you regularly see
, and the only time you'll seethem is like around a
construction site where they'vedug up things and they kind of
disturb them, rattlesnakes.
You virtually I've seen them,and this is the point I'm coming
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to.
Where you'll see them is ifreally early in the morning,
you'll see them out on thepavement on the roads at certain
times of year warmingthemselves Because the pavement
retain heat.
So not during the summer, wheneverything's really warm, but
during the fall when they'rejust about to go into
hibernation.
You don't see them in thewinter because they're cold
blooded animals and theybasically just become far less
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active in the wintertime.
It's much safer in terms ofjust walking around the desert
blindly in winter than summer.
But anyway, what they do towarm themselves is.
They'll come into an urbanisland like Phoenix or Tucson or
Casa Grande or different placeswhere there's a lot of concrete
, like here in Arizona, andyou'll see them out early in the
morning on the pavement warmingthemselves up, getting
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themselves ready to go out.
By the way, just as a side note,rattlesnakes and other snakes
are your friend because they eatrodents.
And, unless you'd like yourhouse full of rats and mice, do
not kill snakes, poisonous orotherwise.
Leave them alone.
They are our friends.
They don't smell, they don'tmake noise and the last thing
they want to do is see you.
So if you see one and youhappen to be out and about,
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you're visiting or you live inan area like this, don't
automatically kill the snake,you know, call pest control If
you're.
If you're afraid of them andhave them, just move them back
out into the natural environmentand if you're not afraid of
them, get where was I going withthat in touch?
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Oh, the urban islands.
So it's much, much warmer,which disrupts all the
measurements.
So all of you who are panickedand think the earth has already
gone up one and a half degrees,which is what it was supposed to
do in the entire 21st century.
And now the climate cult and alot of stupidity forms itself as
a cult and the only differencebetween a cult and mass
stupidity is there's no centralleader, but they behave as if
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there's.
You know, there are Moonies,like the group from South Korea,
anyway, another group.
If you don't understand that,I'm not going to go into it.
But anyway, the bottom line isthey're beyond reason.
You know that fact alone.
If I said to a climate cultist,if Greta Thunberg, why we, by
the way, were worried about whata high school dropout, autistic
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teenager thought, is beyond me.
I mean, that's a case of massstupidity.
But anyway, they, she wouldn'tlisten.
She would just stick herfingers in her ears and go la,
la, la, la la, eithermetaphorically or literally,
because she's a cultist, she'sjust, she believes what she
believes, she thinks she's right, she thinks she's smart.
She probably is smart.
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A lot of the people in theclimate cult are brilliant.
There are plenty of PhDs andscientists who buy into it.
But they buy into it forreasons that you don't know,
which is basically self-interest, and they're funded by
government grants and thegovernment grants.
Up until the time, at least,that Trump took office, you had
to pretend you were in the cult,otherwise.
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Pretend you were in the cult,otherwise you wouldn't get the
money.
So I mean, believe me, it's aself-perpetuating cycle of
stupidity.
But the fact of the matter isyou can't argue with them, so
they won't listen to that.
In fact, the temperature has notgone up one and a half degrees
because all the measurements arewrong.
How far has it gone up?
No one knows, because all themeasurements are wrong.
Even the ones that are outsideof the urban islands are
misplaced.
There are rules on where toplace temperature measuring
stations, but over the years,you know, cities grow and things
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happen and concrete is pourednear them.
There's supposed to be acertain number of feet I forget
how many but away from allconcrete.
And yet even the ones that arenot in urban islands are a lot
of times located around, youknow, truck stops and things
that disrupt the accuratereading of temperature.
So, number one, we have no ideaif the planet, how how much the
planet, is warm.
We think it's warm and a lot ofthe things you see are out of
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context, like, for example,you'll see the picture of the
dying polar bear, when in factthe objective reality is we've
never had more polar bears.
They just showed you thepicture of an old, dying polar
bear, and polar bears die likehuman beings die, and that's
what they look like when theydied.
It had nothing to do.
There are now more polar bearsthan there have ever been and
they're breeding like crazybecause they're protected by law
and their habitat is notshrinking.
You see the pictures of theGreenland ice sheet and it looks
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like it's all dropping into theocean, but they're showing it
to you in the summertime and inthe winter it freezes right back
up again.
And they show you the GreatBarrier Reef and you say to them
that coral bleaching is anatural phenomenon that happens
all the time, that in fact, theGreat Barrier Reef today is
bigger than it's ever been.
It came back from the so-calledglobal warming bleaching in
spades.
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It's a normal thing.
It's the cycle of life within alittle animal called a
zooxanthellae, which is theanimal that creates the
exoskeleton that we see as coral.
And anyway, long story short, Ionly know that, by the way, I
was just that there.
Right, there was me beingarrogant.
We're not arrogant showing off,because when I went to Miami
Beach High School, we actuallyhad a course in marine biology
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and I learned how a coral reefis built.
So I was just showing off mylittle trivial knowledge of the
animal.
Anyway, pardon me, see, I'm ahuman being.
Sometimes I can't help myself.
I'm smart and stupid likeeverybody else.
So, anyway, stupidity is tough.
So you can't reason with themis the point I'm making.
I was talking about transgender.
You can't reason with them.
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There's no evidence that can bepresented.
And within the cult, there area lot of people, like, for
example, in Hollywood today, whowill not admit that a lot of
the things that these actors areespousing are just insane.
A lot of them have bought intothe climate cult and a lot of
them have bought into the genderdysphoria cult and you know all
of these things.
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None of them understandeconomics, they never stop to
think if it makes sense and alot of them are perfectly
intelligent people.
The problem is they are stupidat the same time because they
have bought into a masspsychology and if they were to
speak up, they would be shunned.
And if you don't think that'strue and take it from me Now, I
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briefly, when I got out ofprison and after about a year or
so, I decided I'd like to startdating again.
So I stuck my toe in the waterof e-dating until I realized
that it's the hiding place ofevery sexual deviant in society,
male and female, and decided itwasn't worth it.
But in the meantime, as I wentinto it, many, many, many of the
profiles on, for example,matchcom start with the sentence
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if you're a Trump supporter,don't contact me.
Now let's just stop and thinkhow stupid that is for a moment.
It's it's defining anotherhuman being entirely by one one
set of beliefs within acomplicated spectrum of beliefs
that every human being holds.
Yet people judge theirfriendships and their
relationships based upon, inthis case, politics, and it's
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politics based upon issues forwhich they are stupid, because
they have never stopped for amoment to think about why they
believe what they believe, andeven when they have doubts, they
fight them down because they'retoo cowardly to stand out in
the crowd Even to question.
When you're within a cult ofstupidity, like climate change,
like gender dysphoria you becomeafraid of saying anything else.
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You wouldn't dare speak up.
That's why, occasionally,you'll see an interview done
with a Hollywood star and theywill evade a lot of politicians.
But politicians areprofessional liars and they stop
even knowing what they believeso.
Otherwise intelligent peopleare made stupid by politics and
they have to buy into it.
Why do people continuallysupport things that otherwise
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intelligent people who are notstupid on that particular
subject?
Because we all have our blindstupidities.
They're beyond reason andthat's what makes them so
dangerous.
Because we live in a democracyand democracy is evil, and we
are so collectively stupid on somany subjects.
And since all of us are allowedto vote, who can basically draw
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breath?
You know, over the age of 18,then consequently, we get a lot
of stupid people voting onissues that they're afraid.
Even when they have doubts,they don't bother to even reason
them because they into morestupidity than ever as human
beings, and this is a fatal flawthat has to be corrected, which
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is why I say democracy is evil.
Democracy is evil becausedemocracy is stupid.
Democracy is mass stupidity.
There's a reason why thefounders set up a republic.
They set up a republic becausethey knew people were stupid.
Now, dietrich Bonhoeffer wasn'talive in the 1700s.
You know.
He died.
It was either 1942 or 43, Ithink it was that they literally
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chopped his head off in NaziGermany.
And anyway, the point of thematter is, stupidity has been
coming around in many forms forsince the dawn of mankind.
And the founders went toprevent it by setting us up as a
republic with certainsafeguards, like property
ownership, like having senatorsselected by state legislatures
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and therefore could be removedbefore the end of their term
much more easily if they wentoff the reservation into crazy
land, or stupid land as we mightcall it in this podcast.
But those are all gone nowcreated a stupid democracy.
Not only are we a democracy,but we're a stupid democracy and
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we're becoming increasinglymore stupid.
And it's not like people on theright can't be stupid.
If you think I'm just pickingon people on the left, think
again.
People on the right can be justas stupid about lots and lots
of subjects.
I'll give you a great exampleof a right-wing issue where
people are stupid the drug war.
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There is no rational case to bemade to continue drug
enforcement.
The rational case is we'vespent the trillion dollars since
1971 and stopped nothing.
And, like all prohibitions,historically the drug war hasn't
worked.
It can't work because what weknow from history is if the
people want it, they're going toget it, legal or not.
And what will happen is youcreate a black market, and
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that's what the drug war is.
We're trying to combat a blackmarket.
Well, as Thomas Sowell says, myfavorite living economist and
intellectual and God bless himand I hope he lives to be 190.
He's in his 90s now.
I dread the day to be 190.
He's in his 90s now.
I dread the day that he leaves.
It'll be a tragedy for theworld.
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But Thomas Sowell has said that.
You know, whenever someonecomes up with an idea, like a
government program or an ideathat changed the world, the
first question you have to askyourself is as compared to what?
Okay, when has this ever beendone before that it actually
worked?
You know, and the answer isthere are no successful examples
of democracies that don't endin tyranny, and there are no
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examples of, for example, socialprograms that don't end in
tyranny.
And there's no examples ofprohibitions that don't end in
failure.
100% of the time in the historyof the world, every government
that has ever tried to prohibitanything that the public wanted
has failed.
So we're just failing Now.
That argument is objective andironclad, and I have lots of
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data to support that, becausethis is a subject I'm passionate
about and we'll talk about thedrug war in detail another day.
But having said that, thepeople on the right are stupid
about it.
They stop at.
Drugs are bad.
Drugs are bad.
Therefore they won't listen toanything else.
Yeah, but look at how manypeople are dying.
Well, maybe we could do betterif we treated it, for example.
I'll give you an example of anargument I might make to
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somebody Drugs are bad, we haveto be illegal, we have to crack
down, we have to go get them,yada, yada, yada.
And I would say what I justtold you, so I'm not going to
repeat it and I would also sayI'm not arguing the drugs are
good.
I'm just saying that weshouldn't criminalize people who
are self-loathing.
You know, addiction is reallythe self-medication of
self-loathing and depression,and these people are trying to
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get through the day, and bymaking their drug of choice
illegal, we're making itexpensive.
And by making it expensive,we're making it so they have to
commit crime in order to supporttheir habits unless they're
lucky enough to be Hunter Bidenand consequently, because they
have to steal, they end up inprisons and we end up
imprisoning people who areotherwise simply sad, and you
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can't compare to perfection.
There will always be addictivepeople.
There will always be sad people.
The question is do we want tocontinually not just waste money
but destroy our society?
And a large contributor to thebreakdown of the urban
environment, and particularlythe black inner city urban
environment, is the drug war.
The drug war itself is causingan awful lot of problems.
Again, this is not about thedrug war.
I'm just telling you people onthe right can be just as stupid
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as people on the left and beabsolutely brilliant at the same
time.
You know President Trump isdead set against legalizing
drugs, but he's the furthestthing from unintelligent.
He is stupid on this subject.
You know, people get stupid onsubjects and then they can't be
reasoned with.
That's how you know you'redealing with stupidity instead
of an honest discussion.
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If you get into a cultist, aperson who has bought into a
mass stupidity will becomehostile right away and they'll
resort to slogans as opposed toif I say, for example, there's
been no historic prohibition.
They won't go and try to findone that's worked.
They won't try to like evenmake the connection to one that
may be a half-ass work.
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Instead, they go right to drugsare bad.
Well, that's just stupid.
Everyone gets the point Rightand left.
They're not immune to stupidity.
So I have a few suggestions.
I don't want to just complainand bitch and moan on this
podcast.
I have a few suggestions ofways that we could reduce we'll
never eliminate, but hopefullyreduce stupidity.
One of the problems I think thatwe face, if not the central
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issue, is is that people are nottaught to be critical thinkers
in school.
Okay, I don't expect theirparents to teach them, because
their parents were raised bytheir parents, who went to the
same schools and have for thelast century and a half.
Public education has alwaysbeen a form of indoctrination,
originally for workers into theindustrial revolution, and now
it's.
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I don't know what it is.
It's a disaster, but we aregoing through a massive natural
reorder, a reordering of publiceducation chart.
We're replacing schooldistricts with charters which,
by the way, are publicly fundedprivate schools essentially.
I mean, I don't want to getinto again, that's another
discussion for another day but Ihave some suggestions.
We have to start teaching thepeople not what to believe, but
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how to think.
Okay, we have to spend lesstime.
We have to spend no time,ideally although we'll never
reach an ideal, because subjectsare taught by human beings and
human beings have their biasesand their stupidities.
But if we have to have acurriculum, a curriculum is a
track to run on.
If you're a teacher, tell me ifI'm wrong, write me if you
think I'm wrong, but thecurriculum is simply the track
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you run on and then you use yourown talents and personality as
a teacher to teach thatcurriculum and, hopefully, make
a connection with enoughstudents that you don't turn out
a class full of morons.
Having said that, I have somesuggestions for a new curriculum
.
So I think what we need to doas part of this and think what
we need to do as part of thisand, again, not being stupid.
I'm opening it up fordiscussion with you.
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These are some ideas that I'vehad in addition to anti-politism
, which I'll round about on as Iclose today, but some ideas
that I have of what we could doto prevent as much as possible
stupidity.
And that starts with.
My first suggestion is weshould teach critical thinking
and study philosophy in highschools, starting with freshmen.
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In high school Freshmans.
I almost pluralized the pluralword.
What a retard I am.
See, smart people can be stupid, although that was not stupid,
that was dumb, which thedifference is.
I know better and I'm willingto admit it right away.
Anyway, we need to teachcritical thinking, how to think
critically, and I think we needto teach Stoicism in school as a
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governing and guiding centralphilosophy that is compatible
with Christianity and Judaismand Islam in its core principles
.
But for those increasing amountsof people a large minority now,
but ultimately inevitably willbecome a majority of people that
don't believe in God and don'tpractice religion, this is
critical.
They have to have a way tothink things through and not
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just fall back on beliefs thatare now discredited.
We know that God doesn't makethe sun rise and set.
We know that God didn't createthe moon and the stars and the
heaven for us to look at aslights and all this kind of
stuff.
I can go through it.
It was a nice mythology and itserved it incredibly and still
serves.
I wish everybody could somehowresummon faith, but faith was a
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lot easier when you didn't knowhow science worked.
But now that we all know howeverything works as a result of
scientific inquiry, increasinglyGod is dying and we have to
replace that with something, andwhat I say is let's replace it
with critical thinking andstoicism, which should be a
course.
Kids should be taught thisthroughout high school.
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Okay.
Whether or not they go tocollege should be immaterial.
This should not be acollege-level course for only
the elite to understandphilosophy, because by that time
they're all too stupid stupidto understand it anyway because
of the biases that have beendownloaded in them during their
most formative years and they'rejust going to be lost.
So, number one teach criticalthinking and stoicism in high
school.
Number two we also need tointroduce into the high school
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curriculum, beginning with thefreshman year, what is
essentially econ 101.
We need to teach economics sothat people understand how money
works.
People have a much greaterunderstanding of stupid versus
smart in a broader sense and inthe sense that most impacts
their families and their futuremarriages and children and
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everything else, if theyunderstand economics.
Not to say that there stillwon't be.
There are a lot of stupidpeople, for example, who blindly
and I'm going to point to myown group, boomers in particular
who blindly will go apeshit ifyou threaten to discuss the
reforming of Social Security,which has to be reformed.
I'm not going to go into a longdiscussion again today, but it
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has to be, and the bottom lineis people, otherwise brilliant
people, turn stupid when thissubject comes up.
Well, I'll pay it into it, goddamn it.
And I need, I deserve my money,and don't you mess with it.
And blah, blah, blah, and theyhave the money.
And whenever you get to thepoint where we just don't have
the money for it, they always gooh yeah, they have the money,
they'll find the money.
No, that's stupidity.
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Okay, if you believe thatyou're stupid, Now you might be
brilliant Again.
I know I'm harping on this overand over, but you're beyond,
you're not going to listen.
You know I can give you all thereasons why, but it won't make
any difference, because on thisone subject that this is what
you believe you're stupid.
Okay.
And the way to fight a lot ofthat kind of stupidity is to
introduce economics in the highschool curriculum.
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You know, we teach all kinds ofcrap.
Get rid of social studies andbring in economics.
Okay, it's much more importantSocial studies, which I don't
even like that word.
You know.
There should be history andthere should be economics, there
shouldn't be social studies.
What the hell does that mean?
So, anyway, and number three,the government.
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And I, you know, as alibertarian, naturally I'd like
this to be privately funded, butthere needs to be a national
video campaign of videos both onthe internet and on broadcast
television and everywhere.
It is of little, 30 second spots, maybe 60 second spots entitled
.
Does it Make Sense whensomebody rational, who is on the
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subject, smart and not stupid,goes on and explains individual
subjects?
Are there more than two genders?
Okay, could be one of thesespots.
Does that make any sense?
And the answer is no, it doesnot.
And for 30 seconds, points outwhy and goes on.
Now, again, the stupid willreject it.
But there are the people on theline who could be affected by
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the stupid and when they're awayfrom the stupid they say to
each other that seemed prettystupid, but when they're with
the stupid they'll go.
Yeah, of course, of course thatyou know your child has blah,
blah, blah and they'll go alongwith it because of a lack of
courage.
That's why, again, we go tostoicism.
The four pillars of stoicismcourage is always the first one
mentioned, then justice, wisdom,moderation.
But you can't have any of theother three without courage.
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It doesn't matter if you havethe other three without courage.
So, people, you know, most ofus really don't want to get into
a fight, we don't want toconfront anybody, so we sit
there and we go yeah, okay,that's whatever you say, that
makes perfect sense, blah, blah,blah.
But the truth is just sense,blah, blah, blah.
But the truth is just like wedid the national campaign with
the Indian, with the cry and tostop littering those of you old
enough to remember it literallycleaned up littering in this
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country, seemingly overnight, bybringing shame upon the
American people, which was agood thing in that case.
Well, I got news for you.
We can do the same thing withstupidity, we can go on, and it
would also help calm people down.
You know, is there climatechange?
Yes, there is, but there's.
We don't even know what wedon't know.
And there are hundreds, if notthousands, and maybe millions of
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factors bombarding the Earthwith various kinds of radiation
from the Sun, the orbit of theEarth, the axis of the Earth,
how the Moon affects the Earth,how other planets.
Jupiter's gravity affects us agreat deal.
A lot of people don'tunderstand that, but it does.
Jupiter is essentially a starthat never formed but has
enormous, enormous gravitationalpull.
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All of these things affect ourclimate, and the intelligent
discussion on the climatesubject, by the way, would be to
say the human race does three.
Here's how an intelligentperson I'll use the climate cult
as a good example of howotherwise rational people are
stupid but could possibly, maybe, if it's repeated enough who
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knows, especially that group youknow in that gray area in the
middle that aren't completelycommitted to their stupidity
might come around to rationalityand intelligence by simply
repeating look the human racehistorically does.
There are three things we coulddo about climate change, and two
of them we do really reallywell, and one of them we do
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we've never done, which isprevention.
The human race doesn't prevent.
We don't do it To expect thatthe global economy is going to
somehow convert to theserenewables that none of these
people in the climate calledunderstand in the first place.
Not really Ask the people inSpain and Portugal who lost all
their power a week ago or so.
Anyway, rather, we don'tprevent.
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It's a pipe dream.
We've spent now globally about$5 trillion to do nothing.
We've had no effect on theplanet's climate and yet still
the stupids of the climate cultinsist we need to do more, more,
more, more, more.
It'll fail.
It will fail 100% of the time,because human beings don't
prevent.
What we do exceptionally wellis mitigate and invent.
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Okay, and that's where so anintelligent.
So if you're going to run the 30second spot on climate change,
it would go something like thisLadies and gentlemen, I'm going
to speak to you today aboutclimate change.
Climate change is real.
What we don't know is how muchis caused by mankind, if at all,
and how much will be coming inthe future.
But what we do know is we wantto be prepared for it, but at
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the same time, since there is noexample of any civilization in
the history of the world everpreventing anything they saw
coming, we are not going to bethe first ones, let alone, even
if the United States didparticipate in this, it would
destroy our economy and, at thevery same time, the rest of the
world would be unaffected and wewould only destroy ourselves to
no effect whatsoever.
So, rather than spend timetrying to prevent something that
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we're not going to prevent, itis coming.
We also need to understand it'scoming very, very slowly.
For example, the sea is risingat less than an inch a month, as
it has for the last 120 yearsor so of taking measurements,
which means it's coming very,very slow.
It's not coming in like a tidalwave.
It's slowly creeping up.
Plenty of time to mitigate.
We know how to hold back thesea.
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We do it really well.
Ask the Dutch.
They've been doing it forhundreds of years.
Ask the Bangladeshis, who werewith, by the way, the help of
the Netherlands are buildingenormous dikes and protections
against having their below sealevel land flooded.
We know how to prevent flooding.
We're not going to just standthere as the water comes up to
our knees.
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Florida is not going to gounderwater.
New York City is not going togo underwater.
We are going to mitigate itbecause we do it really really
well.
The technology to do that existsand that's what we'll do.
I know this is way too long acommercial spot.
I'm trying to demonstrate, butof course I'm expanding in the
podcast and the other thing thatwe can do is invent.
We will invent ways out of itby the time the 22nd century
(36:48):
comes and we're supposedly goingto be too far to go by that
time we'll have nuclear fusionpowering everything clean
without any cost at all, orsomething similar, or we'll find
better batteries, better cells.
That's the thing aboutinvention.
Us non-inventors have no ideawhat's coming.
But literally, as I speak toyou, one of the great strains of
the United States is as a freeeconomy.
(37:10):
There are a million people outthere thinking they can get rich
with this next invention, whichis why greed is good, but
that's another subject foranother day, and I almost went
to a digression on greed, butI'm not going to go there.
I felt myself being pulled, butI'm going to stop.
The point of the matter is,we're very good at inventing.
We are going to invent our wayout of it.
There will be plenty of otheralternatives of things to do.
(37:31):
Look how far we've come.
It is now 2025.
In 1925, we were flying biplanes, and now Elon Musk is about to
launch Starship Nine and we areprobably less than a decade away
from people on Mars.
Okay, or at least certainlyOptimus robots or something like
it.
So look how far the technologyhas come.
(37:51):
In 1925, there were biplanes.
There was no artificialintelligence, there were no
computers.
We were in industrial age, butthere was no technology to speak
of.
Antibiotics had not beeninvented yet, women were still
dying, childbirth, the averagelifespan was in the low 60s.
I can go on and on and on.
We have come a very long way ina very short time.
(38:13):
So by 2125, I assure you thatthe world will look different
and it is sheer stupidity tobelieve that we, even now, in
the present, need to worry aboutthat.
That is something that will allbe dead.
Every single person listeningto me now, in 21, 25, will be
dead.
So let's be smart andconcentrate on today what we do
well, okay, which is mitigationand invention, and just not
(38:36):
worry about prevention, becauseit's never happened and it never
will.
Okay, let's wrap up thispodcast and sum it up by saying
let's not be stupid.
Mass stupidity is a greaterthreat than anything else facing
us.
Mass stupidity.
Don't be a stupid.
Listen to the other person,listen to the facts.
(38:57):
I know I'm probably talking tomyself, because that would take
courage to go against.
You know, if everyone in yourfamily thinks one way and you're
the one person going.
But what if I understand howtough that is, but also
understand that you're beingstupid.
Okay, that was kind of a lowway to end the podcast, but it
is Okay.
Now, to prevent the stupidityruining our country, I've
invented a political system.
It is a republic by lottery, amerit-based lottery.
(39:20):
I know how strange that sounds.
Read the book.
It's called A Radical Reset.
A Radical Reset.
It's available to you on Amazonby me, herbie K.
Pick it up.
It lays out anti-politism thattakes the ambition and the money
out of politics.
Politics is converted from acareer to a service and a duty,
and that changes everything.
(39:42):
Read about it.
It's interesting, it'sdifferent, and I don't like to
talk about myself as theinventor of antipolitism.
I am the discoverer ofantipolitism, like the New World
.
When Christopher Columbus came,it was always there.
He discovered it, but he didn'tinvent it.
I discovered antipolitism.
I don't think I invented it.
He discovered it, but he didn'tinvent it.
I discovered anti-politism.
I don't think I invented it.
(40:02):
I think it's just so obvious.
And once you read the book, Ithink you'll go oh my God, why
haven't we been doing this fromthe start?
We need to get rid of themegalomaniacs and the sociopaths
and the psychopaths thatcurrently populate our public
life and replace it with peoplewho are there because they've
done something with their livesand they have a strong sense of
duty and they're not stupid.
(40:25):
Okay, my friends, don't forgetto share this podcast with your
friends.
Talk amongst yourselves andI'll be back with you this
coming Friday.
We'll see what goes on in theworld.
I'm hoping all good things and,most importantly, I'm hoping
all good things for you, takecare.
God bless you and God blessAmerica.
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