Thursday, May 03, 2007

The average person is clueless, put it that way

I've had people say to me over the years I'm very smart, intelligent. You get this at work sometimes, ooh he's a really bright boy but I am convinced that most of us use only about 10% of our minds as they say. I would say that on my brightest days I rise to the mid-level on the intelligence scale but maybe I come across as a genius, an intellectual supernova because the rest of the people I come across are so dumb. I know this can be seen as a hubristic blog but I don't know how else to put it. I'm no George Will but people continually put me on some kind of pedestal. It's like the person at work who asks you a simple question, "how do you spell cat?" - well, kat of course. Maybe it's all the mind-numbing porn out there. On its May 1st broadcast the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" had a segment on all the millions of men out there who are addicted to Internet porn. Now the real problem for me is not that there are millions of men out there surfing Web porn but that they have no aesthetic standards at all to judge the stuff, they are addicted to the mindless. At least an obsessed devotee of Marilyn Monroe has a loftier ideal in place, him I can talk and relate to.

Lucifer playing chess with a bunch of idiots, that's how I see the world at the moment. We had a recent tragic case in NY where a man who was to go on trial for rape killed the woman who was to testify against him. The logic of a psycho, of course it never dawned on our wronged man that rape is wrong in the first place but now to prevent his rape trial he is now going on trial for murder. Or Muslim radicals blowing themselves up when their leaders never do. It's like Lucifer going on "Jeopardy" with the clueless and blowing them all away.

Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here.

12 comments:

  1. The real issue is not why am I so smart but why are you so dumb? Thinking just comes naturally to me so why are people who think somehow considered exceptional, shouldn't thinking be the norm? In Europe thinking is taken for granted, over here we're hip in our unthinkingness. No inference is made to any of my fellow bloggers and posters here, Beth is a smart chick, I'm talking about people, say, at work who say "oh, he just used a big library word" when all you said was "therefore".

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  2. Isaiah Washington, you remember him, he called his "Grey's Anatomy" co-star T.R. Knight a "faggot", then he was sent to rehab to deal with his hate and they reprogrammed him and now he's agreed to do public-service announcements for GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. You can see it coming right? you know where this is headed, next he has to have sex with a man and they'll call it a day. Have a ball-slapping good time Isaiah!

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  3. The average woman today is clueless. You see these cases where a woman says she's being harassed or bothered or whatever and you look at her and she's a real doll and like, duh, you're surprised by this? You should at least be flattered. Now here's a real radical thought, what is he supposed to do anyway, tie you to the train tracks or club you over the head like a baby seal? Maybe he just wants to get in there like any other normal red-blooded American male. Hellooo???

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  4. I know, it's like they've all subscribed to feminist critical theory. The butterfly woman, the few letters I sent her, a few years later and there's a followup and some guy says to me my letters were way over her head. Like what was I discussing anyway, astrophysics? I know, today it's like a crime neanderthal but in the old days I would have been given kudos, I think they were kind of in awe of it all just the same. I mean who acts this way anymore when you can just go online and fail that way?

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  5. I would have to agree that there is a dumbing down of America. That is why they replace Rosie O'Donnell with Roseanne Barr, because there obviously is a demand for stupid spokespeople on television.

    Z-man, you gotta give it up on the butterfly woman, I mean do you really want a woman who doesn't appreciate old-fashioned romantic overtures??

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  6. I was never a rationalist Beth so you're wasting your time. Women like that positively fascinate me, in second grade they probably threw rocks and sticks at the boy walking behind them. There's a clue inside the enigma and women who have no mystery do not interest me. It's a problem.

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  7. "I would have to agree that there is a dumbing down of America. That is why they replace Rosie O'Donnell with Roseanne Barr."

    yech! I'd rather have the first Rosie. Barr looks like a tractor-trailer driver or someone hauling in the mackerel on the wharf. The other question is why "The View" has to be even on the air at all. Everyone acts like it has to be on even though other countless tv series bite the dust every day. It is institutionalized mediocrity.

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  8. hos do not get my obsessive and undivided attention and dating is not about idealized love in the classic tradition. When I fall in love I do not switch gears as easily as most men, I am not an online dater by any stretch as dating rarely involves that magical, fairy-dust feeling anyway, more like a job interview. I spelled it all out in that mlf thread. I would rather be lonely for a lifetime than hitched to someone I am merely compatible with, a category many of us fall into because of societal pressures and all. I have to be true to myself. I am a bit of a mystery or shall I say most people are a mystery to me, I'd rather go with the poetry than the thing to do. The BOX is a boring place to be.

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  9. Z-man, if we got rid of all the mediocrity on TV, there would be very little left on the tube. Which I am totally agreeable to.

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  10. Your favorite show "Studio 60" is going off the air. I've often felt studio executives place too much emphasis on the Nielsons and not enough on quality. I myself watch the Home Shopping Network more and more. You know why it's so popular, it's not bad news all the time.

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  11. I don't even miss "Studio 60" but sometimes I feel a little bad that I don't watch "Idol" or let my kids watch it because then all my daughter's friends talk about it and she probably feels left out of the conversation. Kinda what I feel like when you talk about "24" here.

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  12. These days "24" is good for a laugh, nothing more.

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