People Are Stupid

 Culture, Psychology, Religion  No Responses »
Jun 272012
 

All are via Christian Nightmares.

I often go back and forth on whether or not most people are complete idiots. I have an innate aversion to absolute conviction; if you are 100% sure about something and are getting all riled up about it, chances are that something is wrong with your thought process. If idiot preachers are so convinced of everyone else being idiots, why should I be immune from being similarly deluded?

I think that the answer is because I ask questions like that. Perhaps the essence of being an idiot is in not questioning your assumptions and thinking un-critically. Anyway, this is just a selection of stupid Christians:

She is Not So Common, Now

 Politics, Science  1 Response »
Nov 022011
 

Mandvi: I mean, it should be up to the American people what’s true.
Nickpour: Absolutely! Doesn’t it make common sense?

I am reminded of the old adage, “Common sense is not so common.” The strange thing is that, depending on the sense of “common,” it is and it isn’t.

Stupid Slam Poetry

 Art  No Responses »
Jun 112010
 

I think the thing that bothers me most about slam “poetry” is that they are all read the same way.

The fisherman from Anis Mojgani on Vimeo.

More to the point, they are most likely all written to sound the same way.

for those who can still ride an airplane for the first time from Anis Mojgani on Vimeo.

Am I being a picky bitch?

Poetry Slam from CM Life on Vimeo.

I don’t think so.

Weekend Roundup

 Culture, Food  1 Response »
Jan 122010
 

Chuck Klosterman usually doesn’t do it for me, but he has many interesting things to say during segment 2 of this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge.

On to urban cavemen. This is so stupid I don’t even know where to begin. I think these people, though svelte and beautiful, are horribly mistaken w/r/t the soundness of their foundational principles. Imitating the diet and exercise profile of a caveman may be a sort of simulation of our “natural” state, I don’t see how this is better because natural. Hobbes would beg to differ.

Not to mention that it is decidedly unnatural to either live in a skyscraper or to use a bathtub-sized meat freezer.

These urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon.

In a city crowded with vegetarian restaurants and yoga studios, the cavemen defy other people’s ideas of healthy living. There is an indisputable macho component to the lifestyle.

“I didn’t want to do some faddish diet that my sister would do,” Mr. Durant said.

No, we wouldn’t want that, now would we?

Predictibly Irrational.