Somebody or other once said that stupidity is the most powerful force in the Universe. And I think that is true. Another name for stupidity is inertia. It is what the mind must move to bring intelligence to brute existence. And it is why nothing can be accomplished without enormous amounts of pain and death. The spark of intelligence is resisted by the inertia of stupidity. And the process of intelligence overcoming stupidity is a variety of evolution. Life adapts to the changing Universe and becomes better adapted to its surroundings in a never-ending dance.
In our human microcosm we attempt to become better adapted to the human environment. But there are many conflicting forces at work. Human cooperation and conflict exist at the same time and they can never be statically balanced. They are always dynamically interacting and so anytime you try to depend on some temporary relationship between them you run the risk of being blind-sided by change. The only way to stay on the “right side of history” is when you force history to go where you want it to go.
And that is what we see going on today. The Stupid Party wants to follow the rules from yesterday assuming that the Evil Party will follow those rules too. What they don’t see is that the Evil Party is making up new rules as it goes along. And those rules are just whatever ensures that it will be winning and its enemies will be losing. Evolution is the Stupid Party getting replaced by a Less Stupid Party. We have no choice but to evolve in our thinking or become grease for the wheels that turn the world.
If the progs want to demonize the police and deify George Floyd then we have to let them burn the cities down. That’s where reality will burn the fingers of the stupid people living there who bought into BLM and “Defund the Police.” They must find out exactly what defund the police looks like, up close and personal. When every store goes out of business from shop lifting and every subway car is filled with predators and prey then it will become clear why George Floyd wasn’t a saint. He was a disease. He was a career criminal who swam in a sea of dysfunction. He existed because this society tolerates a subculture that embraces criminality. When every inhabitant of a city gets to meet George Floyd on any random day; gets robbed by him or assaulted by him, then they will truly understand what BLM and defund the police represents for their lives. It represents the law of the jungle, kill or be killed.
So, I’m very encouraged every time I read about another atrocity in New York, Chicago or Baltimore. Whereas I mourn for the senseless destruction of life and the terror and pain inflicted on innocents in these places, I also recognize that evolution is taking place. Stupidity is being educated the only way it can be. With pain and even death. When we have a nation, whose cities are populated by people who would rather have cops in charge than gangbangers and homeless schizophrenics then we will have really evolved.
There you go, we’ll make a Nihilist of you yet!
I hope not. I think people need to own their beliefs. If they hate the police then let them see what it means to live without law.
” Stupidity is being educated the only way it can be. With pain and even death.”
I think Ron White(of ‘You can’t fix stupid” fame) would probably agree.
I know that some stupid people can learn. I’m one of them. The trick is once you find something out put the knowledge to good use. That’s what I’m trying to do. Learn from my mistakes.