Because most people are too fucking dumb to be trusted with any say whatsoever in how the world is run. Isn't it high time the smart fuckers took control? Stupidity as grounds for enslavement serves a dual purpose
1. Leave the intellectual elite with more free time on their hands
2. Prevent the stoopids doing stupid shit like having dumb fucking ideas, mass vetoing good ones and causing all manner of wars and bad teevee and shit
Before I agree to this, define stupidity and define smartness
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 20, 2011, 10:22:50 PM
Because most people are too fucking dumb to be trusted with any say whatsoever in how the world is run. Isn't it high time the smart fuckers took control? Stupidity as grounds for enslavement serves a dual purpose
No. We've tried that before. It usually ends in big iron gates that say things about work making you free, or some shit.
Haha yeah, no, no, no.
Smart people DO NOT automatically have the best interests of the general population in mind, and ARE NOT specially exempt from monkey behavior.
BUT YES
My monkey brain catches on that this is the point of your thread, a second after posting. :)
Mencius Moldbug of Unqualified Reservations would say we've been doing that already for the last century (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/century-of-academic-sovereignty.html). At the very least, the civil service and think tanks are run by smart motherfuckers.
Quote from: Nigel on July 20, 2011, 11:26:51 PM
BUT YES
My monkey brain catches on that this is the point of your thread, a second after posting. :)
Zing! :lulz:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 20, 2011, 11:34:19 PM
Quote from: Nigel on July 20, 2011, 11:26:51 PM
BUT YES
My monkey brain catches on that this is the point of your thread, a second after posting. :)
Zing! :lulz:
Nice one, actually!
I actually really like this. It's got a lot of potential.
Quote from: Cain on July 20, 2011, 11:31:52 PM
Mencius Moldbug of Unqualified Reservations would say we've been doing that already for the last century (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/century-of-academic-sovereignty.html). At the very least, the civil service and think tanks are run by smart motherfuckers.
Personally it's my take on the whole industrial revolution and later the whole consumerist thing that grew out of it. Probably goes back further. It takes a degree of smarts for any minority to control a majority, even by brute force alone. But my personal theory is there's a new level of smart emerging. The kind of smart that could run rings round the previous wiseguys if they only could be arsed to get mobilised.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 20, 2011, 10:22:50 PM
2. Prevent the stoopids doing stupid shit like having dumb fucking ideas, mass vetoing good ones and causing all manner of wars and bad teevee and shit
Typical. :lulz:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 20, 2011, 10:22:50 PM
Because most people are too fucking dumb to be trusted with any say whatsoever in how the world is run. Isn't it high time the smart fuckers took control? Stupidity as grounds for enslavement serves a dual purpose
1. Leave the intellectual elite with more free time on their hands
2. Prevent the stoopids doing stupid shit like having dumb fucking ideas, mass vetoing good ones and causing all manner of wars and bad teevee and shit
But if they have to micromanage everybody else, wouldn't the elite have
less free time?