Aristophanes 411 B.C.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
That’s not only what Lysistrata thinks, the whole town is up in arms. Look, you can feed information to someone who is ignorant, and there’s a mild chance the new information will somehow get through the fog of human consciousness, but that is only a hope.
There’s a cure for youth, a cure for health, a cure for ignorance and a cure for drunk, but for stupid, there is no cure.
“There Is No Cure For Stupid” is the basic idea, but there are a ton of ways of expressing this, and many ways to spell it, say it and portray it in the form of an article of clothing, like a t-shirt or hoodie, or an object of daily use, such as a mug or keychain.
No amount of information will change the stupid state. Stupid is just stupid enough to actually WANT to remain stupid. When confronted with stupidness, the stupid double down, and double down again when they lose the first time.
Stupid is a defense mechanism.
It wasn’t just happening in 411 B.C., it’s happening here, right now, and only YOU can stop it, by buying not just one of my “No Cure For Stupid” t-shirts, but a whole bunch of them to sell and give away.
This is a great slogan for any campus activity, and I predict it will be a favorite at rallies this year, on both sides of the aisle.
The whole stupid movement is what’s happening here — we make and sell stupid-wear and stupid-ware — get the difference???
We need to start an Aristophanes Club or “Club Stupid” or something, and get people making t-shirts for the stupid, starting with members of Congress and working our way up from that very low point.
But take stupid into account when dealing with stupid.
“I’m With Stupid” is also a good t-shirt, but some things are just destined to screw up the works, like writing “Wake Up Stupid” backwards on your forehead so you can see it first thing when you get up in the morning, and you wonder, is that supposed to be “wake up, comma, stupid”, or do I just “wake up stupid”?
The whole thing about stupidness is that it exists entirely independent of and generally totally devoid of any facts whatsoever.
At the root of this is a powerful belief or set of beliefs, usually fixated on a specific leader or ruler, which is how come people actually happily ELECT dictators who are certain to enslave them.
Humans of Planet Earth, you know I love ’em.
Anyway, you came here for “Soul Conditioning”, and soul conditioning you will get, thus reducing your karma and making it possible for you to serve the Work.
As you pass through the next several conditioning pods, or “lifetimes”, I hope that you enjoy our customer service and attention to detail, and thank you for flying Angel Airlines.
Please watch your step as you exit the aircraft.
Anyway, the idea of using the “stupid” t-shirts and mugs is a good one, and we can brainstorm ideas for its proper exploitation at our morning zoom meeting, at which I expect to see you and will happily answer your questions, along with a few zingers I’ve got ready for the occasion.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby