Stupid

There's a difference between stupidity and ignorance and this mini podcast attempts to define them both.

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Transcript

Stupid

This recording isn’t about politics, but it easily could be.

This Winston Churchill quote rolls around in my head quite often: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Basically what Churchill was saying is the average voter is stupid. A less inflammatory word would be “uninformed.”

This “stupid” observation goes well past voters, and the stupid condition can't be blamed on the person, but ignorance can.

The problem as I see it is that people who choose to remain ignorant of the facts and treat their opinion as holy scripture, don’t think they're average. Yet, when we examine the average American IQ, it falls between 90 and 100. Most of us are average but that doesn’t mean we have to remain automatically uninformed.

It’s my experience that when you think of yourself on a higher intellectual rung than you actually are, you're apt to conflate your opinions and prejudices with facts, a deadly and dumb combination.

If you’ve ever conducted or listened to a radio talk show, you'll get a daily dose of callers with passionate, uninformed opinions on every known topic. The average caller to a radio talk show is uninformed, but they think they know what they’re talking about. They mirror society as a whole. They refused to get informed past their opinion and prejudices and believe they’re smart enough to run whatever they’re offering up the flagpole without evidence. That’s stupid!

Jesus didn’t say it but he could have: “The stupid will always be with us.” But that doesn’t mean they have to remain uninformed.

This message is just an effort to encourage those who are putting forth arguments to have something besides an opinion and prejudice to back them up, otherwise you’ll keep Churchill turning in his grave.

All the best,

John