"This 'charwoman syndrome' Master, is it not the very top of stupidity? All these people, unconsciously tucking-up their sleeves against all Natural feelings of comfort, in order to obey the commands of some television yokel! It beats me flat."
"Indeed, stupidity is limitless and of all variety. We know from Spencer (Essays) how the need to control others replaced the more Natural need of the belly, once farming, co-ordinated hunting and fishing, relieved us from the latter. It was then, that stupidity made real progress. Then is was that decor, the obeying of what others command you, replaced usefulness and rationality, i.e. the definition of stupidity. Not the useful, the logical, the rational, but the applause promoting, the 'what others think', the belonging to the flock, that became the drive behind conduct. One must be mad as a hatter to live-up to that sort of standard. All Stoics and Taoists stress the low standard of the mob. Putting on one's shoes backwards may well be the next gimmick. In this, son, there it no top."