Date: 2012-05-30 08:04 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] donald hutton
No, I'm talking about Stupid with a capital "S". People who worship ignorance and whose only acquaintance with cerebral pressure is their last bout of constipation. I wouldn't necessarily call Down's Syndrome people and so on "Stupid" as long as they do the best they can with what they have: I'm talking about wilful ignorance and anti-intellectualism at its most rabid. Think Mike Harris's "Common Sense Revolution" and probably the mayor of Toronto. Neither were elected despite their seeming stupidity but because of it.

These people deny that analysis can tell you anything and claim that only direct emotional subjective experience exists. If something bad happens as a consequence of something they did while feeling good about it then that consequence is the result of other people complaining about the stupid actions. It's the Magic Thinking/Infantilism that's at the core of fascism. It's not that they're callous about the consequences of their actions; it's that they don't believe in consequences period.
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