Terminal Stupidity — The New Threat To Civilized Humanity

The Jewish Press ^ | 12/4/2002 | Cheryl Kupfer

[SJackson]

I've been feeling lately that we are doomed; our liberal policies which are totally unrealistic about human nature have already hurt us so much, perhaps beyond repair.

Trust me, we're not doomed, you're reacting to the lack of sunlight, you'll feel better in the spring. ;>)

[SJackson]

I'd vote yes on Streissand, Feinstein, Boxer, probably no on Shumer. Any other of the 550 or so congressmen you need to know about?

[marbren]

Satan hates the Jews. If he can kill them all then God can't keep his promises to the Jews. I read the book. God wins.

[Southern Federalist]

Great post. I've always thought that the idea of the "fool" was one of the great contributions of the Jewish Scriptures to moral thought.

In the South, we have appropriated this idea in the category of "ignorance," pronounced "ignernce." The fool, the ignernt individual, is a person who's dumber than anyone has the right to be.

Folly or ignernce has nothing to do with lack of braininess. At the bottom of the fool's folly is not lack of IQ but avoidance of reality. The fool just doesn't want to know. As the great Louis Armstrong said, "There is some folks, if they don't know, you just can't tell 'em." This is a moral flaw found maybe more often in the highly educated than in peodple who have to deal with the hard edges of things to make a living.

As the Bible says, the fool says in his heart, There is no God. To avoid dealing with unpleasant reality, you have to deny or confuse the distinction between good and evil, right and wrong, and that already is practical atheism. Of course, there are fools in every religion; the fool denies God in his heart, in his attitude to life, not necessarily with his mouth.

It's really a toss-up, I think, whether more evil is done in the world by really malicious people, or by fools - people who refuse to see what's really going on -- as we say in the South, people who "just don't know how to do." One thing is for sure, the wicked couldn't do without the ignernt - they ride to power pillowed on the smooth soft brains of fools.

[DBtoo]

Beautifully written and well-said!

[marbren]

- they ride to power pillowed on the smooth soft brains of fools.

fools=Democrats

[stands2reason]

Bump your comments!

[SJackson]

The "rights" of illegals are more improtant to our leaders than the rights of native born Americans. I can't figure it out why they are so gutless. The majority of Americans are sick of it, but it continues. Do you have an answer for this or does the article lay it out?

I don't think the "rights" of matter to most of them, both sides of the aisle, any more than the rights of citizens matter. It's the votes they care about.

The illegals seem to have a lot of political clout. Illegal immigration is a big issue on FR, seems to me to be an issue along the border in the Southwest, but IMO that's about it. Even in areas like NY or Chicago, with large illegal (and legal) immigrant populations, there doesn't seem to be much concern about the problem, at least as a campaign issue. Until American's wake up to this issue nationally, not regionally, I'm not sure much progress will be made.

Deporting illegals and enforcing our immigration laws would seem to me to be a pretty easy issue for politicians to get on the right side of, but I don't think the nation's calling for it.