People are Stupid

The law of the wilderness is usually agreed to be "survival of the fittest." Man was once part of such wilderness, but human civilization has done away with this law for itself through such creations as doctors, vaccines, hospitals, welfare, and those obvious warnings that we find on everyday products. Not only do we attempt to protect to sick and the poor, but also the mentally unfit. Formerly these people would run around clueless until one of their own actions disallows them to live. Of course most people would have known better, but stupid people really can't help themselves in such situations. In protest of this law of nature, warnings against idiotic misuse of products were introduced. Lawyers with silly civil suits against manufacturers and marketers helped to encourage common sense warnings by getting large sums of money for unwarned stupid people.

As professed by Agent K of the Men in Black, masses of people are panicky and dangerous. This was his justification for keeping the rest of the world in ignorance. This shows people in groups to be stupid because for the most part, the aliens posed no threat, yet the general public would fear them. The founders of the American Government also had little faith in the intellect of the general public, evidenced by their implementation of the Electoral College. By this creation they hoped to have smart people make the important decision of who to elect into presidency. The actual wording used by these founders was "common man," meaning the average citizen--by himself--is stupid. So the conclusion is easily reached that a group of people is always stupid, and in most cases so is a given individual. Of course there are the few exceptions, who tend to write theories to explain everyone else because they like to understand such phenomena.

Two men successfully brought a case against a lawnmower company after they lifted the mower in an attempt to trim their hedges. These men dropped the mower on their feet, obviously causing them both bodily harm. The blame was transferred to the marketer for lack of a "do not trim hedges with this machine" warning. Any person with any common sense would know better than to lift a heavy spinning blade over their feet. The fact that warnings against this and using a hair-dryer in the shower exist show that a relatively high number of people completely lack common sense, and lawyers are willing to fight for them.

Two more facts supporting the stupidity of the common man is the popularity of America OnLine as well as Macintosh computers. Both of these are set up for stupid people--making simple tasks painfully easy while sacrificing the more complicated tasks. Stupid people like things such as these because they allow them to do the simple tasks and they would not even dream of being able to do the more complicated tasks anyway. Thus they are perfectly content with complete lack of knowledge as to the existence of such tasks.

Simply stated, people are stupid. If you find yourself confused or defensive after reading this, you are most likely one of these people.