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sabotabbyA Flickr collection of teabagger signs.
On my less-happy days, I don't know how I stand living in a world that spawns people like this.
P.S. Not because of the spelling and grammar fail. Just because I can't cope with knowing there are human beings so devoid of empathy.
On my less-happy days, I don't know how I stand living in a world that spawns people like this.
P.S. Not because of the spelling and grammar fail. Just because I can't cope with knowing there are human beings so devoid of empathy.
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Date: 2010-04-01 09:57 pm (UTC)I have a theory that links greed, stupidity and insanity which may be tangentially related to this.
There is an egoistic stage of early childhood in which kids see their connections with others but not others' connections with each other. For example, they see their connection with mommy and their connection with auntie, but do not yet grasp that mommy and auntie are sisters. Hence, the kid sees the world as a bike wheel with all the spokes of association radiating to him or her. All roads lead to Rome. Eventually, the kid learns of these other connections and the center of the bike wheel becomes the center of a concentric spider web. It is still an egoistic model, but at least it has more connections.
This suggests the connection between stupidity and egoism. If I go through life with an attitude of "What does this do for me?" and am disinterested in everything that does not directly affect me, there is little inclination to look at how things connect or fit together. Since "an idea is a feat of association," as Robert Frost put it, I am not interested in ideas as a whole and simply not in the habit of thinking, period. Knowledge comes from objective thought, which selfish people are severely handicapped in. They still see the world as a concentric spider web, whereas the less self-centered see it as more of a tangled, partially shredded fishing net with no center. This is a more accurate – and thus more useful – model. And since sanity is essentially seeing the world as it is, there you are.
It's not a unified field theory of human psychology, but I think it explains the correlation between stupidly and selfishness rather well.