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| April 4, 2007 |
Subject: A rant about stupid people
Time: 12:02 AM
Human stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Whenever I'm bored, it entertains me. Whenever I want nothing more than to either go home or stab someone in the eyes with a turkey baster, it is there annoying the fuck out of me. Stories? Yeah, I got stories. I could write a fucking book. A fucking SHITLOAD of books. I can see it now: Encyclopedia Idiotica, the 230 volume encyclopedia of idiocy!
There are a wide range of types of idiocy, as well as a cornucopia of idiots. These range from the minor "duh" moments that everyone has, to people who could be the avatars of Idiocy... those make you wonder how humanity as survived this long without going extinct. I can only speculate, but I think Eris, when She made the world, must have tried several times before finding a species of humanity that didn't kill itself off from sheer brainlessness. Yes, I think we are not the first species of humans to gain consciousness. I think at least 5 or 6 species of conscious humans must have preceded us, living for a time and then dying from their own idiocy, before we came along. Somehow, we've managed to escape the grinder. But who knows how long that will last.
One of the major kinds of idiocy is the lack of sense. This kind of stupidity is caused not by any inborn deficiency or trouble learning, but simply by a combination of A) An inability or unwillingness to think for oneself, thus one lacks critical thinking abilities; and B) The inability or unwillingness to pay attention to the world around one.
My favorite example of "the lack of sense" sort of moronicism is something I witness far too often. Here goes: Okay, so I work at a casino, specifically at the buffet/cafe that is right by the front doors. Whenever I'm bored, watch the people going by. There are three doors with the little elbow-shaped automatic-door-opener arms on the inside. There are no signs on the inside doors saying to push the doors to open, but the outside doors do say this (one could read those from the inside and logically deduce that the inside doors open the same way). It's understandable if someone pulls the door once and, finding that doesn't work, pushing it immediately. I do that a lot, because I rarely go through those doors. What gets me is when people pull the door, find it doesn't work that way, and either pull again (usually 2 or three times) or try another door. If they had any kind of sense (defined above, remember), they would not be so stupid. I've even seen people have this problem when other people at the other doors were having no problem. HEY NUMBSKULL, PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR ENVIRONMENT! WATCH THE OTHERS! One lady (seriously) pulled on the door three or four times, with other people at the other doors going through just fine, before she gave up and tried another. She actually *pulled* that one, too! Finally, it seeped into her tiny little brain that DUH! she should *push* it.
Before working at the casino, I never would have believed it possible for there to be so many people that hopelessly dumb. I mean, I knew there were lots of idiots in the world, but I never realized the scope until I started working there.
Another favorite example is... oh, you'll love this. The exit to the buffet/cafe is, unfortunately, right close to the front doors of the casino and is not marked as an exit. I get annoyed always telling people "No, you pay afterwards because we have a menu, too. You have to wait in THAT line." But when there's no one in line, since we're primarily a buffet, it is at least understandable in those instances. But what really bugs me is when we have a long line and people STILL come up to the exit and try to pay first. This happens at least a dozen times even on Friday nights and concert nights. Man, it even happens when we have a line down to the hotel. DUDE, PAY ATTENTION! YOU THINK THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT 50-FOOT LONG LINE ARE STANDING THERE FOR THEIR HEALTH? And sometimes they come up to me, start trying to pay first, and then realize their mistake and ask, "Is that the line for the buffet?" I swear to Goddess, one of these days I'm going to answer that question with, "No, there's a course in how to stand in lines and they're just practicing." See if they realize I'm being sarcastic. Bet you 9 out of 10 of them take me seriously.
You know what's even funnier (and more annoying) than *that*? When people who are *regulars* come up to the wrong entrance. I swear, we must have several customers with Alzheimer's or something.
I must admit, I find idiocy more grating than entertaining. I find it hard to laugh genuinely at stupidity. I mean, I know I do stupid things myself once in a while, especially if my attention is not focused on my environment, but for the most part I *have* sense. I pay attention, usually. And if I make a mistake, like pushing a door that has to be pulled, I'm like "Duh!" and pull it.
I'm also very logical. I can make leaps of faith, too, but those leaps are usually relatively small because they are almost always supported by evidence or personal experience or both. Being a multiple system, we are often prone to changing our minds or arguing amongst ourselves about where to go and what to do. But even so, I find it hard to comprehend other people. I was in self-imposed Exile for years as a child, which in retrospect was a form of autism in which I still interacted with the outside world, but only through the filter of my inner world. Though I am no longer lost in a land of my own making, I still find it necessary to compare things happening outside of myself to things within. I am quite certain I have a form of Asperger's Syndrome. So it's understandable that other humans frustrate me so much. And being that I am such a curious intellectual type whose life *forced* me (once I came out of Exile) to pay extra attention to the world around me, it's also understandable that idiotic people and people who ignore their environment drive me crazy. Because I'm so used to focusing on the world around me even while simultaneously having an internal dialogue that I'm usually the first person to notice changes in the environment (IE leaky roof, mysterious puddles, cracks or dents that weren't there before, new litter, litter that's been there ages, etc).
Anyway, I have digressed. Another form of idiocy is BIG stupidities. Things that I, in command of all my senses and all my sense, would never do. One good example of this is on these crime dramas when someone has killed someone, and the detective is talking about the crime with the suspect (the "You know what I think?" speeches), and they go on about things like motive... like today, one of these had a suspect who had killed a doctor. Initially he merely shot the guy in the hands so he couldn't perform a surgery to give this deaf guy's deaf girlfriend a cochlear implant. The guy was screaming (the deaf guy assumed so because his mouth was open and he was in pain), so he stepped on the doc's throat. That didn't shut him up (as far as the deaf guy knew) and so the deaf guy shot the doctor "to shut him up so I wouldn't get caught." What the FUCK? Anybody with a brain knows that only the exceptionally brilliant or exceptionally lucky ever get away with anything. The average Joe Schmuck WILL get caught. Better to be in trouble for mere assault than for murder. Honestly, what - if anything - are these idiots THINKING?
Now, I don't believe in killing murderers or any other kind of criminals, but anyone stupid enough to commit a violent crime ought to be banned from breeding until they can prove they've evolved. And those who have been convicted three or more times of violent crimes should be locked up forever, the key thrown away, and they should not only be banned from breeding, but they should also be sterilized. Hack their sack or ovaries off if it comes to that.
I'm out of steam, now.
With utmost sincerity;
- Alexander Antonin (AKA Bishop Sanctimonious The Hypocritical)
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