“Stupidity does not consist in being without ideas. Such stupidity would be the sweet, blissful stupidity of animals, molluscs and the gods. Human Stupidity consists in having lots of ideas, but stupid ones. Stupid ideas, with banners, hymns, loudspeakers and even tanks and flame-throwers as their instruments of persuasion, constitute the refined and the only really terrifying form of Stupidity.” – … Continue reading “Kakistocracy: A word we need to revive”
Source: Kakistocracy: A word we need to revive – Amro Ali
Thanks to Sibling3 for sharing this post.
As long as we keep the Dems out of the government, the word can be retired as no longer meaningful, since we’d be keeping the least qualified, most stupid parts of society safely away from the various seats of power.
I’ll wait for a Dem to chip in about the stupidity of the Republicans and we’ll have a perfect demonstration of the need for the word…