Are most people just plain stupid? (page 6)

expatbrit

I am

Ah but Mouthy, if you am, it therefore follows that you think, since you think, therefore you am. And if you think, you're not stupid. Ergo, quid pro eggnog. Expatbrit

Aztec

Grace, you are nothing of the sort! You have practical wisdom and a great sense of humor. Those are things most of us are striving to learn.

~Aztec

Valis

mouthy not stupid...just mouthy..

Sincerely,

District Overbeer of the "Gives Grace More Hell" class

Aztec

Expat, nice bastardization of Descartes. You're a keeper! LOL!

~Aztec

mouthy

But Valis 's hell is warm & fuzzy!!! I sort of like it

hillary_step

Expat,

Expatbrit (stick that up your therapist class)

I see that 'Charlie is ya darlin', and that judging from his expression someone has misjudged your comment and stuck a therapist up his class.

HS

logansrun

hillary step,

For example, you use the term 'average person'. What exactly is an average person? If such a beast exists, are you defining an average Westerner, African, Oceanic? There are a vast world of 'averages' out there.

Excellent point and a weakness in my post. I used the term "average person" simply based on two things: personal experience and opinion polls. Both data-collecting methods have their flaws. (Of course, being an American I am writing from an American perspective)

It is true that many, often through no fault of their own, do not live up to their intellectual potential. Often they have lacked opportunity, encouragment, money, food, medicine and other things that allows them to emerge from a less cognitive state.

What you say is true, but let's not be overly generous in shifting the blame. Opportunity really is there for people who want it -- last I checked the library didn't charge admission. There are a lot of reasons for the lack of thinking skills in the American public mind.

Human beings are not machines and do not behave with detached intelligence. It is true that some may deliberately chose to remain ignorant about certain matters, but that would not mean that they lack intellectuality. It may mean that they are just disinterested in a particular discipline.

Or that they just don't care? Lazy, perhaps? I'm not saying one way or the other but you do have to consider that argument as well (as I have considered yours).

Euphemism,

Excellent point on "multiple intelligences." Well noted. But, that doesn't change the face of the problem.

Bradley

PS -- Did you all know that illiteracy in America -- regardless of race -- is worse now than the 1940's?

Are most people just plain stupid?

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