Being Stupid Is Addictive
Not knowing is easy, and rewarding and there are always lots of people who think just like you
Being stupid is quite empowering for dumb people (dummies, hereinafter). It’s freeing. It’s even less stressful than actually being burdened by knowledge.
How many of you reading this have engaged a dummy lately on social media? Or, maybe even a bit more dangerously, you had a run-in in reality?
Even though, I like to avoid public displays of what I call “dummy policing” sometimes you have to engage a dummy when they get into your personal space. COVID increased the frequency of dealing with stupid people in public for many of us.
A few fights almost broke out for me and not because I was being aggressive. On one occasion, I was just asking the guy in the check-out line to maintain his distance since he was unmasked.
He was a classic dumbass and so of course he began to lose it on me. I reached calmly reached into his shopping basket, unpeeled one of his bananas, and began to eat it.
“What the hell are you doing, man? That’s my banana!”
At that, everyone around him busted up laughing. The laughter caught him so off guard that he just kind of stepped out of my space and silently fumed until a…
