…it came to me like a freight train plowing through molasses.
Society is slowly growing so stupid that it soon will not be possible to express it in words.
It is an existential stupidity.
In the frozen food aisle at the grocery store, right next to the chicken-nuggets, there was a section for frozen-yogurt dog-treats. Dog treats. Made out of frozen yogurt. I’m not sure what to make of it… Then, while in the meat department, I noticed a sign above one of the sectionals which said, “Natural Meats,” with an arrow pointing down. No thanks, I thought, I’m looking for the unnatural meats. Like cloned bats and shit.
In the parking lot, a woman was dancing around her car, singing (horribly) with her doors open, and gospel music blaring.
3 different houses in my friend’s neighborhood have been vandalized in the past week. Nothing was stolen. Why…? Never ask that question. It leads nowhere good.
There were many more stupid things I noticed today, but my brain does not function well this early in the morning.
Humans make lousy gods. We’re all just so stupid.
Buy our products because the competitor will eat your children. Also, fuck you, that’s why.
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We are crazy motherfuckers. It’s all ridiculous.
Blame it on the media, and the influences it gives to the younger kids of society
I love your post and you write with eloquence mixed with humor. A talent you need to explore further?
The older I get, the more I realize how incredibly idiotic the majority of people are. It actually adds to the pain. I’m not stating that my intelligence is through the roof or anything – I have a terrible memory which frustrates me to no end. But, it’s the simple, almost animal-level of stupidity out there on a daily basis that makes me wonder if we have any chance at all as a species.
Oh orangish!
I hate those days. the only thing that helps is if I do something equally stupid as everyone else. I can’t explain it but it helps me control the rage somehow. Maybe it makes me feel part of something? Or enables me to get off my pedestal and be more forgiving? Try it – buy the yoghurt dog treats and feed them to your cat (just to be ironic). climb onto the roof of the shopping centre and start praising the lord. Make an ignorant, sexist, racist comment on a you tube video, taking special care to reference Obama as a muslim terrorist.
Embrace stupidity. for the sake of controlling your rage.
My friend and I bought a bunch of mexican jumping beans in little containers for my friend’s twin boys, and one of the boys ate one of the beans and thought he was going to turn into a bug. o.o
Kids these days… Haha…
O.O
Oh, lawdy, lawdy.
See the fun that stupidity brings! A glorish return to childlike innocence.
The stupidity is calling…
You have been beckoned.
PS. What’s a mexican jumping bean?
Exactly 😀
Mexican jumping beans are a type of bean that carries a larval insect in it, and when the bean gets exposed to heat, it instinctively tries to make the bean “jump” towards a cooler spot to sustain homeostasis.
Or, in other words, it does the heebeejeebees all over the place and looks freaky and weird. :O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GEGbUaQDM
In context, that’s not stupid at all… if I ate a larvae, it’s a perfectly rational response to think I might turn into a bug (or at least give freaky alien birth to some bugs). Depending on the age of the kids, I might even be impressed at their ability to extrapolate that far.
Those beans sound like a real treat. another national treasure I missed out on my mexican tour. What kind of bug do they hatch into? How long is incubation? If you cook them does it kill the larvae? Do these beans constitute the diet of any animal, and can you get sick from eating larvae? If these beans became extinct, can the larvae hatch in another type of legume? Were the beans tasty?
I wish I had food that entertained me.
They hatch into these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia_deshaisiana
I dunno if any creatures predate them (or their beans), but from what I read, their incubation is several months with some periods of dormancy. I don’t believe there are any harmful effects of eating them, but I would advise against it… I know people eat larvae in some parts of the world, but they’re just too pasty for me.
And I think the moths are adapted to that specific legume species – have no idea if they could further adapt should those particular beans go extinct. Anything’s possible, though; nature is very resilient.
They are indeed quite entertaining. 😀
They sound like glow-worms. I went on a tour in new zealand and learned all about glow worms. The larvae spend a year in a cocoon, and when they come out, they are sexually mature, but they have NO MOUTHS. So they fuck once and starve to death. Their corpses get eaten by other larvae.
What kind of dumb animal spends a year in a cocoon and comes out with LESS resources to survive than when it went in? Anyone interested in disproving the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory can start with this species.
And you think humans are stupid.