I have tried many times to fix it but...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

...you can't fix stupid. You can't argue with it. If you try, you will make yourself a target for it. Avoid it, placate it when needed, lie to it if you half to.

This is a great insight: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181756975

Start the year off by not preaching to the firewood and driveway gravel. Allow evolution to take its course and the forces of nature will do the rest.

[RKP5637]

1. Stupid is the black hole of the universe. It will suck you in and you won't change a damn thing!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. On the contrary, you will waste your time...

...become frustrated, maybe even disillusioned. Whatever positive good you may have accomplished with that time, money or talent that was wasted on stupidity, will be lost forever.

If you can spend hour working for pay instead of working to make stupid smart, do that. If you have friends and family that you can help rather than trying to fix stupid, do that. If you can sing a song you love and be happy, do that.

Write a poem, say a prayer, have a sandwich or make some tea; do whatever you can to just avoid stupid.

[Whiskeytide]

3. Always welcome an opportunity to post a link ...

… to Professor Carlo Cipolla’s Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity?utm_source=pocket-newtab

That’s an article about his work, but it links to his original paper. I love how I can’t really tell if it’s tongue in cheek. But it’s nevertheless brilliant and insightful, and damn sure explains the Maga movement.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Truer words...

[Walleye]

5. It's worse than stupid, it's stubborn stupid, I know a few stupid people who are willing to learn

Stupid doesn’t have to be mean and nasty. There’s just no level on which to communicate with the MAGAs. Pardon the current cliché, but they have weaponized their stupidity

[panader0]

6. Jeannie used to wear a t-shirt shopping that said

'They say you can't fix stupid, apparently you can't quarantine it either.' She got a few looks from
the unmasked.