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I had some life changing epiphanies during this term.

I have been thinking about stupidity more and more. Encountering this female’s Substack caused an epiphany:

https://jessicareedkraus.substack.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-redemption-arc-loading

This is one of the most absolutely stupid people I have ever come across. It would be a punishment to hear this woman think or talk.
That’s “death where is thy sting” right there, being stuck being civil to that woman out of common compunction. As a thought experiment, that would be hell. I don’t think her followers get how crazy she is.

Then I saw this piece on stupidity by this environmental author I really like called Andrew Nikiforuk that I got via this other really cool environmental writer Chris Ketcham:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/canadas-nicer-more-radical-bill-mckibben/

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/25/Triumph-of-Stupidity/

As an environmentalist (the Chris Ketcham allied kind not Bill McKibben) I have thought about human stupidity all my life and then 14 years ago human stupidity came a lot closer and I had a breakdown. Now I am returning to normal having learnt a lot about how stupid people think.
Our elites are also disappointing-they have some skills and knowledge but they are craven, conviction-free assholes mostly who let mob rule or creep rule move history forward. That makes them stupid as well.

Reality is making me more radical as I grow older. Not like the Unabomber, but certainly I question the core assumptions of our idiotic societies more seriously all the time and way past most normal radicals.

God we are a stupid species…And in a fitting irony the stupidest among us are obsessed with IQ etc or equally lame metrics updated to give them some semblance of gravitas. The smart moron’s hedge is to attack someone’s sanity if the IQ thing is harder in a fair fight.


Beyond reprehensible…I am myself an unskilled person of at best mediocre talent. But I am not a moron. That’s why I would never work in media or politics or any human interaction centric anre etc. Fields that favor morons even more than most blah fields as it’s all surface.

Science and tech are trickier with a mix of bandits, the stupid and the (craven and douchey asshole) mediocre intelligent and a handful of legit intelligent adjusted for new realities people. That last group may or may not be of help. Who knows..

The actual scientific and medical elite are mostly usually too overworked and spot focused for the challenges of our times. That’s people like Dr Fauci. Really elite but too overworked ..and too forced into conventional roles only to be able to question these societies deeply. I have seen a few scientists or doctors who engage more politically and in better ways: Peter Kalmus, Clayton Dalton, Adam Becker..
Usually it’s a profession where personality wise the more left or liberal people will still feel a bit awkward about stuff that is not a cinch.
That’s why I liked Lina Khan. While I deride effciency as these creeps see it, a tumorigenic industry of growth around a cancer makes it worse. You need people like Khan. But that’s an area of effort that is confusing to most scientists.

Whatever technological changes occur, with this chain gang in power and with the colonization mentality that all humans have it will need real intellectual muscle used all the time to counter these turds. Because they infect a lot of the mentality that is forced on the left in confusing ways…the program seems to be to optimise the stupidity found anywhere to maximize WallE world. That’s pretty sneaky of machines if that is how they plan to take over the world. That could actually work. But I am being flippant of course.

The real problem is humans not machines. And the complete failure of people who should have known better to hold the truly accountable parties responsible, choosing instead to fixate on trivial shit while allowing this.