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Although the solution is, for us, the only part of any
significance, a brief survey of the cause is necessary. It
is when we understand the cause fully, that we can grasp the
solution in its totality. The cause: 'man is utterly
stupid', is one way of not mincing matters and it is true
besides. Everybody is infected with stupidity to some
degree. We are trained in it from so young.
Wells, in his
'Short History of the World', triumphantly notes the ousting
of the clumsy Roman numerals, and the Arabic figures, in use
to this day. It is on page 148, chapter XLIV, and the book
is undated except for MCMXXXIII. We know e.g. that in Germany,
30 % of the forests are dead or dying. We know also
that the brunt of this comes on the fir trees, a 90 % of
them. And what do we see at X-mas (1983, -84, -85) ? Exactly ...!
The stupid people buy healthy trees, killed by the
chainsaw, in order to have less than a fortnight cheap fun
indoors.
A tree-expensive superstition indeed, a deadly one too.
... man, who will leave nothing undisturbed from the
ocean bottom to the stratosphere, and who bids fair to
extinguish himself in the process. Wells, Outlook.
While Europe sends food to Africa's deforested drought
areas, there is an overabundance in beef, corn, butter, a
milk-lake and the like in the EEC , the storage of which
has become so costly that the farmers must pay a fine for
their production. When harvest comes in, the prices get so
low (through sheer abundance) that the governments pay a
subsidy, and then, having become owners (!), destroy this
excellent food. I myself have seen large pits in the ground
in which apples, pears, plums, etc. were dumped, sprayed with
poison in order to discourage thieving. This is the bestiality
of economics.
The poor peoples of Africa need wood in order to cook their meals,
therefore they de-forestate, yet, inestimable quantities of fuel in
all shapes are burnt up in our hothouses in order to grow ...
flowers, in the civilized (?) part of the world. These hothouses are
themselves not made so as to retain every stitch of warmth, to use
costly fuel optimally, by treble glazing or five-fold glass, but
they are thermally little better than an open chicken run of wire
mesh.
Every year, at the tourist season, thousands of acres of forest in
southern France, Spain, the whole Mediterranean, are set on
fire, and thus, become lost to the (news) paper industry (!).
All these fires are caused by stupidity and most of them
deliberate. It is a great touristy attraction to watch the
immense operations at work, the intricate organization complete
with heavy four-engined bombers that load and bomb
water. Is this sanity then?
In Turkish, as in many languages,
there are two words for the main two different ideas behind
'letter', (Spanish: letra-carta, German: Buchstabe-Brief,
Dutch: letter-brief, etc.). In fact, the extraordinary qualities
for complex thought and communication of English is
caused, in part, just by this rich scala of different meanings
(ideas) behind one word. Important as the translation
of 'letter' in a different language might be, however, I
have a concise Oxford Turkish v. v. English dictionary in
which the word cannot be translated into Turkish namely:
narf-mektup. Do we call it stupidity or not?
Precious cooking-fuel, the garbage of gardens and
orchards, are burned as waste. Nay, we burn our household
garbage, complete with our stupid disposables, whole mountains
of plastic (the malignant growth of economics), we
even burn our dead while we could simply re-circulate these
bodies by digging them in the soil, or dump them at sea.
All continents on the planet need desperately a thorough
re-forestation, but then in large tracts, in climate significant
tracts of say 10 x 10 degrees (38). The water
for this cannot be carried by hand, yet, all daily traffic
of say Manchester, when the engines are taken out and coupled
to water pumps, would suffice to pump that water from
the rivers, while we could easily go about on foot, or by
bicycle. (We should not ride dogcarts or horses, but have
all animals as our friends, not as slaves.) (The days for
that need are over, slavery to machines, animals free.) (Is
not, according to human dignity, a man who sits on a horse,
the most ridiculous sight, him thinking to sit on a motorbike?)
The problem of starvation in Africa is of course dependent on
numbers and food availability. Yet, only a very few scientists can
be heard to warn that, seeing the rate of reproduction, a 10 year
old saved now, will increase the same problem 3 or 4 fold in ten
years time, when there will be the same drought. Malthus' theorem,
shared by say, Spencer and other scientists, still holds. It says
that when one hands out food, first, people get less interested in
producing it for themselves, and second, population will increase.
This, naturally must not lead to the conclusion that we should let
people starve, which is inhumane, but it should be understood that
food delivery can only take place when it is conditioned that no
more children are produced. This, as is obvious, makes problem and
solution one of a mondial ethics. (What right have we to reproduce
freely, (Wells' breeding storm) and demand of other peoples to check
offspring?) Stupidity made Marx and Engels so vehemently attack
Malthus, because he disturbed an absurd, stupid dream of a world
without private property, without ethics. It was tried during the
French revolution, and many times after, it always showed to be
impossible, as Malthus knew. The fundamental ethics of handing out
food did not escape a Malthus. He perceived that it gives one an
(unwarranted) power (control) to discriminate, to rule, to enforce
conditions, hence, a tyranny. Naturally it is a tyranny to condition
not to have multiple reproduction, waves of children, but such a
tyranny, when imposed on ALL mondial people, is far easier to
endure. It then, is conceived as a necessity. (Dispensation
dis-enforces the rule). But the reverend Malthus also advocated a
premium on the turning up of new land. This, together with his
professional superstition (the laws of gods, sperrits, etc.), must
be skipped in his writings. After all, they are from the 18th
century. Stupidity, also simply must result in a lack of all ethics.
In an ethics of a dream, not reality-related. A proper
world-government would see to it that every citizen has his rightly
one-square-meal-a-day, but also the duty not to produce more
than one child per couple. This, until the load is lifted from
nature. That is, when stupidity is replaced by common sense.
Everybody should agree that admitting nuclear power stations
is sheer insanity, a stronger form of stupidity. We
all know that things that can go wrong, will go wrong, some
day (Spencer) and such risks thus, are not those of sane
men. Protesting against nuclear weapons is just as stupid.
The most primitive missiles, the V2 rockets of Hitler's Germany,
that carried a ton of explosives, fired onto some power
stations of say, Germany or France, could thereby destroy
life on the Northern hemisphere. So, in fact, could the
old-fashioned gases that were used in the trenches, on a
future Fuehrer, when countries like Russia, France, etc. are
permanently nuclear booby-trapped, through their power stations,
only waiting to be triggered-off by stupidity, or by
a most simple attack with conventional (!) weapons.
Is it not sheer stupidity to let one man, or a small group of insane
economists-diplomats, fanatic mediocrits, decide and take measures
that can kill off thousands or millions of people? This, only for
his applause, his gathering of votes (see Churchill vol 1, Shirer,
Schwarzschild, etc.). Or a B.B.C. its world-service, that could have
been a mondial integrative force, a blessing for mankind but is
still braying its stupidity all over the globe. Is that sanity? Or
these royal distinctions, pinned on macho-bucks, the pop bastards,
that gather piles of money by mutilating millions of children and
grown-ups, especially because of this dirty money? You are aware, of
course, that your government willfully rewards the undesirable in
man, the making of debts, and punishes the desirable, the saving for
later. This through tax and tax subtraction.
Do you know that the very tea you drink might have been
on transport for two times the actual distance between your
kettle and the harvesting soil? While at sea, the cargo is
sold, the ship's course altered, the cargo sold again,
course altered again, etc. And then, tea, like tobacco, coffee
and the like, is a decided non-essential, only permitted
when numbers of inhabitants are below the maximum, when
there is ample food reserve stored on the pole-caps, and
food is abundant for everybody. Until then, every stitch of
good soil is to be used for essentials, for food or reforestation.
Then, a child knows that Olympic games cannot but be held
in Olympia. But what of the stupidity of transporting
'Olympian fire' halfway over the globe? A schoolboy knows
that a flame consists of oxygen from the air, and gaseous
atoms from the fuel. Even when you transport a piece of
Olympian-grown wood that is burning over a few miles during
its brief existence, you do not transport the necessary oxygen atoms.
What clods they think we are to assume we
believe that they take open fire in an aero plane! Of
course, once inside, it will be extinguished and only re-lit
after safe landing. If not, the pilots and air companies
are greater clods than they think we are. Then, all the
stupid political problems in Olympian gamestry, are unnecessary
when we simply hold these games where they ought to be
held. People, then, can take it or leave it, nobody would
mind.
Have you never heard of students that cannot attend lectures
(taxpayers money) for three whole months because of
the business of inauguration rituals for a students club
keep them occupied? They know that belonging to that club,
is a certain way to high office, high social position in
later life. They ... help each other discriminatory, i.e.
the right man does not get the right place, but the club member who,
often, is certainly the wrong man. How long are we
going to accept stupidity, and the insults of being taken as
stupids by diplomats, civil servants, advertisers, show businessmen,
scientists and university officials without
protest?
Do you realize that the junk and scrap on the sea-bottoms by the
sinkings of World War 1 and World War 2 could provide Western like
existence with regard to necessities (shovels, rakes, knives,
scissors, etc.) for a century? That the powder used up in these wars
(for killing and devastating) is ample for centuries of cooking in
Ethiopia, that the hot baths Seneca wrote about, were luxuries
destroying costly trees, that people who buy flowers are obstinately
insulting so many hungry bellies, that your motor-yacht with its
hundreds of h. p's (kilowatts) is sheer crime since it robs other,
dying people, of h. p. 's necessary to pump water or cook food? Do
you ever ask who's petrol it is that these stupid macho culls in
their motor- and car- races and crosses, use up in huge, noisy,
quantities, in order to arrive ... nowhere but where they began,
yokels going in circles indeed? Or these vulgar vultures of society,
rally drivers, who cross through hundreds of miles of barren African
scenery, populated with the most utter poor people imaginable.
People that would give anything for say, a plastic jerry can, for
carrying their water, who stand there, watching the rich in money,
poor in brains and morals pass by in huge clouds of dust, in tearing
noises of mishandled engines. Do they give a single thought to poor
people, to the rights of man, are they not the limit of stupidity?
These bastards that shake good wine in order to spray it away.
And do you know that practically all illnesses that you
are docily suffering from, but wholly unnecessary and for
life, (asthma, epilepsy, migraine, etc., etc.) were curable in
a few afternoons, in 1920 (39) ? Knowing this,
are you going
to refuse to pay, or going to court, in order to get adequate help.
Doctors, then, would be forced to study their
business, books of Coué, Baudouin, Satow, Ambrose, etc., or
the articles in the Lancet, Brit. Med. Journ.
Are you aware of the piles of stupidities that are
released daily, for you to read or hear? When you hear of
Taiwanese fishermen being maltreated in Argentine, near the
Falklands, do you then see the utter stupidity of going to
fish over more than half the Earth's circumference distance
away? When there is no fish in Taiwan, then one should go
and plant crops. When one wants to fish in Argentine, one
should go and live there. These stupid open fires in central
heated houses, the architects that build an airfield
office-building in the form of an aero plane, etc. What stupidity!
Did you ever notice a street-planning that is
worse-, instead of better than no planning, street naming
that is worse than no naming, traffic rules that are worse
than no rules, your food that is not good enough for other
countries because you (have to) accept a level of radioactivity?
Did you ever notice how all problems in your
society, like crime, terrorism, labour problems, etc. are
always attacked by all sorts of solutions except the only
common sensical one?
Fundamental stupidity! DeBono.
DeBono says that, in order to understand rationality (or
intelligence or whatever name we invent) it is well to study
stupidology. Indeed, for a mind-scientist, this is a must. Besides,
it is, as Democritus pointed out, real democratic fun. Stupidology
is the first department of the study of man and his society, a large
part of which is taken up by the study of superstition (Elaboration
40). It is as old as mankind! So one studies
- the superstition of (romantic) love (of giving),
- the superstition of democracy, of
- the faith in the media, in
- the belief in man's rationality and good-will,
- the superstition of the advertisers,
- the thought that they want
you to have things instead of the knowledge that they want
your money,
- the false belief that our education aims at the
best for the pupil instead of at applause in teachers and
pupils, in
- the excellence of our education,
- the superstition that art must pay, that building must
be art not scientific technology, usability, etc.
There are superstitions about the
calendar, the legality of governments, the national flag or
the anthem, about money and economy, about science, frontiers and
custom houses with their blackmail, etc. Wells has it
expressed as
the dirty side of nationalism.
In the neighborhood of Batavudurum (Nijmegen, The Netherlands),
one can
travel in all directions with a couple of bottles of whisky
in his possession, except in one. Solely by going in the
direction of the German border, a fancy line on the maps, a
superstition, one has to be asked questions, even pay money,
in, what Wells called, the blackmail of the frontiers. When
a serious student of mind-science has filled a notebook with
stupidology for some years, it makes a reading about our
planetary population like the saying: If I had to invent a
totally stupid population on a planet, I could never hit on
such a one (41).
Man's stupidity ... ? Unlimited!
He has let science and technology run away with him, he has
made it the killer of all life. He has made science and
technology a plaything for applause, for stupidity, instead
of a useful instrument to better living for all, in harmony
with all other living nature. So has he taken the potential
blessing of audio-visual instruments and turned it into the
pus of cancerous society, superstition and mutilation. We
might think that our society is based solely on copulation
and money. In reality, these are only manifestations of the
real drive, the drive for control of the individual i.e.
applause, the stupid paradox of applause, of wanting to control
one-self by one-self yet, wanting to be controlled by
others, wanting to be like others. Spencer shows us how all
education, all philosophy, all scientific work, is subjected
and ruled by applause, by irrationality that has taken the
place of usefulness, of decoration over usability, since man
started living in larger groups than the family. As in Wyndham's
'Seeds of Time':
Science, the great anti-biotic.
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2007-09-11