We are watching evolution in action as people commit suicide by ignorance. People have lost the drive for self-preservation and are actively working to destroy their sources of oxygen, water, and food so that a few people can gather more things than they’ll ever need or use.

When they start to notice that things are going bad, they just can’t figure out why, and look for scapegoats to blame, rather than the source of the problems.

At some point people lost the ability to discern the difference between knowledge and belief. Too many people assume that they are the same, and act like it. Trying to convince them that they are free to believe whatever they want, but they have to know how things work. They just don’t want to make the effort, and would rather limit themselves to their beliefs.

Curiosity has been eliminated in the US. People no longer want to know. The programming on television reflects the total lack of imagination that has infested our ‘culture’.

I think it’s more than that. 50% of people are below average. And average just is not so smart nowadays. It just isn’t. I don’t know what that’s so, maybe people just can’t develop smarts if they never know the kind of hardship that our ancestors experienced, maybe life is just so cushy and easy nowadays that people just never have to exercise their brains, but the average American is, frankly, a dolt.

This is self-correcting over time, of course, if it is in fact the reality of life being too easy nowadays that creates so many Doltus Americanus. The GOP appears to be rushing to remedy that situation headlong, yo. The problem is the dead bodies. I don’t like dead bodies. I don’t know anybody who’s ever been near actual dead bodies who likes dead bodies. Well, except a few psychopaths like run the GOP, but I’m not sure they ever care to see the bodies resulting from their policies, it appears good enough to them to just know that dead bodies are happening and, like, they get a woodie the size of a redwood tree. So yeah, it’s self-correcting… but… man. What a bummer.

People just refuse to get involved. I keep harassing my neighbors to register and vote, but they don’t bother. Among registered voters, a huge chunk were registered when they got their drivers license, but have never been to the polls.

They seem to want someone to tell them what to do, and when, rather than making any decisions for themselves.

In the end, every single one of the ba**ards in office got there because the majority of the people in his or her district or state voted for’em. That’s the bottom line. Our government wasn’t installed by some foreign dictator, our government was installed by voters, and if the average American whines about his government, the culprit is easy enough for him to find — just look in the nearest mirror.

And yes, I know about the gerrymandering of House districts etc…. but senators and governors are elected in state-wide elections, and when you look at Governor Fraudypants in Flori-duh or Governor Goodhair in Texas or Governor Doublewide in New Joisy or … well, it wasn’t gerrymandering that put’em there, yo.

The only hope is that these things require 60% of votes to pass, so there is hope that 41% of the people who go to the polls will have sense enough to stop the power grab.

But then I think of all the good folks suffering because the majority of Floridians appear to be unthinking cads who elect Medicare cheats to the governorship and otherwise do stupid things of that sort, and it’s less of a game of “how low can they go” and more a game of “how many innocents will die?” Somehow less entertaining when you think of it that way :(.