THIS SONG is dedicated to the obedient and naive people I saw in the supermarket yesterday wearing face masks.

Someday these people may wake up and realize that life is cruel and Daddy has lied to them. There will be lots of tears and shock. They may sing all the songs of betrayal they like, but by then, it will be far too late in the day.

If anybody comes up to me and asks why I am not dressed like a bank robber just like everybody else, they will get a few choice words about the lying scumbags at the CDC. I’m a very bad girl, a naughty, naughty girl. I just can’t get the hang of bowing to “experts.” What’s wrong with me? Their credentials do not impress me. Ooooh, Johns Hopkins!! Ooooh, Harvard!! They’re all the same lying scumbags to me.

It used to be a crime to be a bank robber, now it’s a crime not to be one.

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Terry Morris writes:

You wrote:

“If anybody comes up to me and asks why I am not dressed like a bank robber just like everybody else, they will get a few choice words about the lying scumbags at the CDC. I’m a very bad girl, a naughty, naughty girl. I just can’t get the hang of bowing to “experts.” What’s wrong with me? Their credentials do not impress me. Ooooh, Johns Hopkins!! Ooooh, Harvard!! They’re all the same lying scumbags to me.”

Sometime back, I had occasion to write about this subject for my kids at their private blog. The inspiration for that little write-up was your June 29th post, “Ohio Mother Describes Daughter’s New Life” and “She Trusted the Science.” I titled my article, “Stupid People Do Stupid Sh*t,” and linked back to the YouTube videos you posted in your article.

Now, while I certainly feel empathy for the woman whose daughter volunteered to take the death jab, and was rewarded for her trouble with several (permanent) disabilities, no doubt the shortening of her life, and so on, I nevertheless and firmly believe that what we are dealing with in such persons (her husband and their other children included) is a severe and unalterable case of Human Stupidity. By “unalterable,” I mean to say that, someone stupid enough to allow (and even encourage) his/her 13 year-old child to be injected with a “vaccine” that has obviously not been tested nearly enough to establish whether it is safe or not (to say nothing of whether or not it is effective), is a person that no amount of “education,” nor any persuasive argument whatever, can reach.

The mother in that video is one of two things – she is either (1) a very stupid person, and/or (2), she is simply a bad actor suffering from some weird mental disorder like Munchausen by Proxy. As I said above, I believe her husband suffers from the same (stupid) disability, but, my focus is on the mother because she was of course the one giving testimony in that hearing. I couldn’t help but think, as I listened to her give her testimony, that she (and her husband) are simply stupid people, as well as, that they most assuredly passed the “stupid gene” down to their kids.

I realize this all sounds very uncharitable of me, but I cannot ignore human stupidity, nor act indifferently towards it; nor in fact act as though it doesn’t exist. As you pointed out in a follow-up article, there are times when it is actually more charitable all around to simply speak plainly. I once read a study, by the way, that essentially proved that the most incompetent people in circulation (again, independent of anything else about them – see below) tend strongly to greatly overestimate their own competence levels on any given subject; whereas, their competent counterparts tend to slightly underestimate theirs.

When I wrote the article aforementioned for my kids, I cited Carlo M. Cipolla’s essay titled, “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity” (See here). In particular, the first and second “Basic Laws.” The first “Basic Law” states, “Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation”; the second “Basic Law” addresses the problem of human stupidity being a constant regardless of upbringing, social status, levels of education, profession and so forth. The second Basic Law plainly states, “The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.”

I would encourage you and your readers to read Mr. Cipolla’s essay in entirety. I’ve cited its principles any number of times over the last fifteen years or so, since I first read it. It is very helpful in explaining why we have so many occasions to observe what others do and shake our heads and go, “huh?” My father (R.I.P.) had a name for the “educated” among the stupid set – “educated fools.” I do not believe my dad ever had opportunity to read Mr. Cipolla’s essay, but he was certainly aware, by way of his own life experiences, that many many stupid people exist at any given moment in time, that they will sometimes shock you with the level of their stupidity, and, moreover, one belongs to the stupid set independently of everything else about that person (2nd Basic Law).

Glad you’re blogging again. Keep up the good work!

P.S. One of the dumbest things I ever heard anyone say was back in the mid-’90s at a televised public forum (in Michigan, if memory serves) discussing the so called “Patriot” movement of the times. This was sometime shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in OKC (which of course I’m thoroughly convinced was a government operation all along, and that Timothy McVeigh was just a patsy). A woman in the audience pronounced to the room (and to the wider television viewership) that, “If we can’t trust our own government, then who can we trust?!” I remember thinking when she asked that question, “now that is a very stupid woman!” Not that the only stupid people in the room who applauded her sentiments were all females, not by a long shot! See, again, Mr. Cipolla’s first and second laws.

Laura writes:

Thank you.

I’ve been a stupid person many times in my life.

Mr. Morris responds:

You wrote in reply to my comment that you have “been a stupid person many times in my life.” I chuckled when I read that and thought to myself, “yes, of course, haven’t we all!” I firmly believe that anyone who says otherwise is either (1) lying, and/or, (2) is a self-deluded person. I often tell my kids stories of some of the stupid stuff I’ve done in my life, most of which was done as a young man. E.g., I have, on more than one occasion when I was a youngster, driven my “hot rod” (a ’70 model Pontiac Firebird with a 455 Police Interceptor engine) over 100 mph on the highway on what we around these parts refer to as “indian tires.” We refer to them as “indian tires” because, “they don’t leave no tracks.” In other words, they are old, warn out tires that could blow at any moment. Talk about STU-PID! As I explain to my kids, “I’m alive today, yes, but not for lack of trying to kill myself during my ‘stupider’ episodes.”

However, when Mr. Cipolla speaks of the “stupid set” of persons in his essay, he isn’t referring to people like you and me who have acted stupidly on occasion during our lifetimes; he is referring instead to those persons who, and even as they grow older (and supposedly wiser), continue to do stupid things in spite of learned experiences, greater wisdom, levels of education and so on.

One of our daughters once got deathly ill as a three year-old. In spite of everything we tried, we couldn’t get her to eat or drink anything. She therefore became dehydrated rather quickly. We took her to the emergency room, where the doctor re-hydrated her with I.V. Nevertheless, she still would not eat or drink anything, and was quickly dehydrated again. When we took her the second time, the doctor (same doc as before) told my wife that “you are going to have to force her to eat and drink!” I was in the room when he said that to Annette, and I immediately retorted out of frustration with him, “force her to eat and drink?! Are you stupid or what?! Obviously you don’t have any children of your own!” Following that episode, we made an appointment for her with our old family doctor (now deceased) back home. In less than five minutes upon seeing her, he knew exactly what her issue was, gave her a shot and prescribed medicine, and in two days time she was back to normal. My point in telling that story is that the E.R. doctor, in spite of his level of education, that he very likely came from a privileged background, and so on, was simply a stupid man.

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