Amerika

It seems to me that people in this time suffer from a great deal of stress, not only from direct factors like financial worry, but from indirect long-term ones like being part of a dying civilization but worse, a society run by stupidity.

Almost everything we do is stupid. It starts with democracy: a bunch of idiots doing the jobs no one else wants to do, while everyone else hides like a mouse and pretends none of this has any consequence.

Politicians are by nature attention whores because that is how they get elected, and the problem is that three nines of the voting population have no idea what they are doing when they vote, and worse, are doing it for the wrong reasons, like retaliating against others.

Another example of insane stupidity: when police set up tip lines for a killing, many of the calls they get are people reporting ex-spouses and enemies in the hopes that the police will hassle them. You have to be insane and selfish to make a false report, but it is common.

Online services accept anonymous complaints and then crack down on whoever posted something that offended someone, following the complaints to police model. This empowers the worthless and sabotages our best hopes. No wonder all influences are insane.

Jobs, like school, are designed around obedience to trivial authority figures like managers and teachers. This creates a two-way tension, with fear of being fired or marked down existing simultaneously with resentment for the stupidity of the process, leading to a resentful entitlement mentality.

Like absolute imbeciles we sit in cars for hours each day, just driving to work, and we are not paid for the time and cannot get it back, so instead we waste a couple hours of each workday in retaliation. Who wins here? Only stupidity.

Then we go to grocery stores stuffed with products no one should eat. Then it is off to the gym, where the laziest, rudest, and stupidest people dominate because no one wants to challenge them and demand they behave like non-stupid people.

The doofus festival ends when we sleep on beds designed for obese people, listening to the noise of cars racing by in the night and our neighbors throwing trash cans around or beating their wives, possibly both.

We buy products from corporations that are huge simply to absorb the cost of the taxes for benefits that cost us much more than buying the services directly would. These grow out of control because they need obedient tools, which means that they concentrate the worst workers and drive away the best (this is a common modern pattern).

Our society allows itself to be shaken down by diversity, unions, organized crime, special interests, foreign powers, and brain-damaged esurient middle eastern religions. The voters look at it and flap their hands and shrug. To them it is just a lottery ticket that did not win.

Bureaucrats, judges, politicians, and lawyers write millions of miles of tiny little rules so that they can always find a loophole to offer “arguments” about, even though all of this cleverness leads to the law doing the opposite of what it was intended to do.

Maybe this stuff worked centuries ago, but nothing seems to defeat the principle that you need competent people in leadership or everything turns to garbage. Democracy of course selects against competence because it seeks the most entertaining candidates instead.

No wonder people move like they are in a constant state of shock. Unsurprisingly they are demoralized, debilitated, and staggering around in a circular state of confusion. They do one thing, then the opposite, then the first again, in a perpetual cycle of indecision.

We have gone far down the chain of decay. Sane societies are mono-ethnic, monarchist, eugenicist, free market, and culture-driven; they limit their populations. Democracy destroys quality and sends quantity skyrocketing and soon everyone lives in fear.

When stupidity always wins, the only sensible strategy is to hide out from the disaster. Thus your best people are the least active in society, and the most obnoxiously idiotic influencer-types are the most powerful. No wonder everyone is stressed.

Tags: democracy, stress, stupidity