Stupidity - Dumbing down of Society part 3 of 6

[DaftAida]

yes the less education or lower the standard, produces some ultra bright sparks outside that frame. within it are total losers and wasters for the most part.

[gamingnovice]

Finally a video that addresses a much needed truth: Education does not necessarily make you smart.I would say alot of what education does is detrimental to society in that it indoctrinates the educated with an aura of arrogance and pride (the kind that causes you to belittle "lesserlifes").It serves to hinder true progress and stiffles true potential because it gets society focus driven on credentials rather than character and character is what the greatest minds in history all had.

[gamingnovice]

If we actually lived in a society that rewarded good character then the proper people (those who take responsibilty for what their role in society is)would be in the right positions instead of criminals, con men, and responsibility shirkers (nobody likes responsibility anymore.society teaches us to be selfish and self centered dodging responsibility and blaming those we're given charge over I.E. a manager blaming a worker for a screw up when they failed to properly inform the worker of the job.)

[gamingnovice]

I see this same scenario played day-in and day-out.All because society fails to recognize that it is character that should be recognized and rewarded above even credentials (credentials are just paper anyways and I'm sure ever thief on Wall Street has them.Proof enough that credentials never guarantee a smoothly functioning society).I believe that until character is taken into consideration as a prime factor in society that stupid people will always have prominence where they don't deserve it.

[tavern2468]

i sort of like this series so far but i find some of the stock footage/graphics or clips incredibly fucking annoying and amateur

[JAYARSAL]

good thing Dr, Goddard is a quaker.. no molestation of the kids.

[jwallbanger]

this documentary is stupid. it doesn't seem to go anywhere, just a collection fo random clips and statements about stupidity.

[CookiesAndGuns95]

People pay more attention to weird online videos like Nyan Cat to dumb themselves down and to laugh and smile at things that someone 100 years before would think is unnecessary, useless, annoying, etc. It's sickening. This is why our society is falling. We pay more attention to our feelings than what would be useful in life that would make us a bit more intelligent. As a result, ANYBODY can be ANYTHING they want without trying.

[Spitbak]

This planet is being run by idiots but nobody really seems to care until it's in their own backyard.Why let it go so far as to have some sort of tragedy or war happen before anyone starts to give a shit is beyond me.But what do I know,I'm just a useless feeding moron!!

[takineko]

A clip of someone pretending to be Monica Lewinsky giving a blow job.. why? Why was that needed?

[takineko]

Moron is a white folks word?? :|

[kozychik]

@takineko Some black people consider it taboo to use certain words that they commonly hear white people use. An unfortunate false sense of pride and identity left over from slavery.

[takineko]

More sports questions were added? Was that a joke? Seriously?? That's just messed up.

[kozychik]

@takineko This is the way everything works. The rule-makers simply change the rules and the tests they use in order to "prove" what they already believe to justify their own rules.  If this sounds insane; it is.

[GnosisMan50]

I've seen enough: this documentary is not exactly setting the example by interviewing people about the word moron and telling them it as invented in their home town. Who gives a flying fuck where it came from? People are not stupid or morons. It's only when you live in a society such as our that you will be conditioned into a state of mind that has stopped learning, that has stopped inquiring and cultivating ones sense of self.

[Bhatch2007]

Fuck I hate black people. "That's.....the white folk's word." BITCH THAT SHIT AIN'T COOL!!

[mannecyberguy]

Was this Dr. Goddard the same scientist who did research into rocketry prior to WW2?

[jbillycrack]

why are you stupids trying to learn

[youngdrodeau]

Part 5

Not to turn this rant into a race issue,but I've noticed that alot amongst white ppl.Like,my other lil white cousin thinks he's smarter than me even though he's half my age.Like,when he was 13 & I'm 25,I said "mafioso" & he's like "I can make up words too,ya know.HAHA".Never even considered that maybe I was using a word he just hadn't learned yet.Nope.I must've been talkin Ebonics.

Jeez.I swear,my lil white cousins dont think I went to school or can read & write cuz I'm black.

[Bhatch2007]

@youngdrodeau The whole side of that family would be put on a blast. You're a better man than me...or woman. Lol.

[youngdrodeau]

@Bhatch2007 HAHA.Ya know,reading back over my comments,I think I might've given the wrong idea about my family.I'm not sayin they're like total racist bigots or somethin.I don't think they mean to be like that.They may not even notice they're doin it.I mean,they're really good people when it comes down to it.I think racism is just ingrained in their subconscious.They're suburban & most of the black ppl they see are on TV.

[Bhatch2007]

@youngdrodeau Oh I know, and that's what would piss me off, that you DON'T know what you're doing.

[youngdrodeau]

Part 4

I swear,you should hear some of the dumb,goofy shit this lil girl says that she thinks sounds smart.She'll point out some obvious shit from the ep of Hannah Montana we're all looking at or some other stupid shit & my aunt'll be braggin about what she said for weeks.

And the lil girl thinks she's smarter than everyone too.She thinks she smarter than me (I'm black & they're white BTW).Last week she was questionin if I knew what "ajar" meant.I wanted to slap the shit outta her.

[youngdrodeau]

Part 3

And she's so naive & in denial about her lil daughter.My cousin had a bag of peanuts & said to me "Hey.Wanna taste these nuts?" right in front of her.My aunt swears she didn't mean anything by it."Oh.She doesn't know what "nuts" mean...She goes to private school.And kids dont talk like that there.." WTF?

And she swears this lil girl is so smart cuz she gets the best grades in her class,forgetting that she's the only 3rd grader in a class full of 1st graders.

[youngdrodeau]

Part 1.

Great shit.Love the fact that they bring up "Dumb smart ppl" & "Educated idiots".I know so many ppl like that.

Like my aunt for example.She's always braggin about how smart she is cuz she went to school in Italy & went to college,yet she does the dumbest shit ever.She hates her husband so much that she cant stand being at home,but wont leave him cuz she doesnt wanna lose the house.She has no parenting skills.She has no social skills.She tells the dumbest lies....

[youngdrodeau]

Part 2.

She takes pride in not knowing basic everyday things.Like,she didn't have a clue what "Punch buggy" meant last week.And when I asked her how she got to be a 47 year old American without knowing that,she just said "Well,I went to private schools...I didnt hang around ppl who.....".As if "Punch buggy" was somethin only idiots knew about.And thats the other thing.She thinks she's smarter than everyone else.Thats why she thinks she can just con everyone with dumb lies....

[DonnyDeutschisBigBro]

Hitler was right!!!

[BurningHeretics]

thats a "white folks word" and they say whites are the only racists.

[AndrewKH85]

Todays definition of stupid is someone who doesnt participate in or keep up with current pop society

[TheHumanElement01]

Dur Dur de lee !! YEah Smart people. Woo Hoo!

[lebiew]

I'm Dumb

[adrianfi7]

We should use only the word stupid, we all make mistakes, we should not be so concern with this issue.

[snowbunnyrock]

@adrianfi7

spoken like a true moron lol

:p

[zz616zz]

So wait.. if girls did so well on the IQ tests back then, why aren't they [as a whole] doing so well on them now? I don't see any sports questions on these ones.

[jeepndesert]

now i understand why psychologists are stupid

[Scholar2211]

It's painful to watch some of these individuals struggle to answer simple questions. So very, very grateful that my mother encouraged intellectual pursuits over mindless, vacuous drivel of the every day teen especially when it was not "en vogue" for the female populace.

Eugenics is very dangerous territory. The calling for sterilization of "stupid" people could encompass anyone of us at any given time dependent upon the parameters of those seeking to "sterilize" and "thin the herd".

[SororThothma]

@Scholar2211 It is interesting to note (and really rather difficult to avoid, if one is perceptive) how that there is so much interrelation betwixt language and intelligence. Numerous of the people shown/interviewed in this series (and others) are typical of how a dearth of linguistic prowess is directly correlated with an inability to reason or comprehend. All interlocution that happens within the narrow confines of their limited lexicons tends to be small, unimportant, and often churlish.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma 'Numerous of the people...?'

Did you mean 'many of the people' or perhaps 'numerous people?'

I think we can agree that a 'dearth of linguistic prowess' is certainly indicative of your inability to reason or comprehend more than the simplest of phrases.

Your pompous and pedantic misuse of language would seem to indicate you are also a little embarrassed by this shortcoming...

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur I am so flattered! I obviously impressed you enough that you want to follow me around. How kinky! What next? Invite me for sushi and drinks? Admit it, you like me.

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Anyway it is OK if you want to follow me like a puppy. I have a belief system that you are unfamiliar with - and which you find challenging, and perhaps appealing. This is understandable since true novelty is hard to come by these days. But I could be wrong. Is that something you can say? I can say that I may be wrong in a completely fundamental way, about everything. Do you have the courage and the intellectual honesty to say the same? Just curious.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma I may be unfamiliar with your belief system, I don't know. You've been unable or unwilling to articulate your belief system.

Did you want to now?

I agree that you're kind of a novelty act, though.

I can certainly admit that I may be completely and totally wrong about many things. I don't seem to be wrong about you...

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Why do you feel so inadequate? What was done to you to make you so incapable of play and to be childishly so condescending? You must be a truly boorish buzz-kill at social gatherings. And no, it does not matter to me that my belief system is alien to you, nor is sharing it a part of my agenda. If others stumble upon it by either reason or happenstance, then good for them. If not, Oh well. Regardless, it doesn't matter if you are wrong about me or not, now does it? How could it?

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma I don't particularly feel inadequate. certainly not compared to you. You had simply made some fairly bold assertions and I wondered if you wanted to (or even could) explain your reasoning.

I see that the answer is a resounding 'no' which is what I anticipated.

I do find your description of me as 'condescending' amusing considering your earlier posts to me.

Do you find that people are open and friendly when you tell them to 'eat feces' and 'cease all metabolic functions?'

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur At the end of WW2, whilst having a celebration with the Russian troops in Germany, General George S. Patton was asked to share a toast with his Russian counterpart. Patton refused, saying that he would not have a drink with that Russian son of a bitch. Infuriated, the Russian general bellowed back that he thought Patton was a total SOB too. Upon hearing this (in translation) he laughed and said he would drink to that: One SOB to another, and so they drank a toast, arm in arm.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma So all along you were just looking for me to call you on your condescension and pretension? Interesting...

Alright, you're condescending and pretentious.

Still looking for that explanation of 'experiential religion' though... not likely to get one, am I?

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur So you are still looking for that explanation of 'experiential religion' that I mentioned? How do you know that is not exactly what you have had in front of your nose the entire time we have been attempting to communicate? After all, you know nothing about what I reference when I say that, just as you also presume that it (and I) must fit into some preconceived notion that you already think you know about and are thus comfortable with endeavoring to model (or grok).

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma That's why I was asking for an explanation... you have been unwilling to provide one.

I don't presume anything about you... I 'grok' from your posts that you behave like a sophomoric and pompous know-it-all on-line (and that you've read Heinlein) but then many people do (and have) and you're probably quite pleasant in person.

If you're unwilling or unable to articulate your position, I just don't know why you advanced it... that's all.

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Have you ever read "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman?

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma Yes, I have.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late? I'm willing you to be a bold swimmer... explain your position.

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur It depends on the degree/quality of time/effort you invest into the detection of patterns (both real & imagined). Remember: You are here conversing with me because you were unable to let something go about me. Don't ask me what, but that too may also become salient in time. I wonder which Whitman line I was alluding to in that poem? In it resides the truth about true religion, about experiential religion - but it is rather discombobulating,.. at first anyway.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@SororThothma If I had to guess which line it was I'd say, 'How could I answer, I do not know what it is any more than he.' You don't seem to know much but you pretend a great deal and perhaps we all do... but as Whitman once observed about the Spiritualist movement, 'humbug!' You got nothin' for me and you're starting to bore me... see you later, just know your 'mystic' angle has about as much credibility as your 'linguist' nonsense, none.

See ya around the interwebs.

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur ElSeedy, you are the poster girl for dumbed down America.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Kenny, you are the poster child for ignorant and arrogant idiocy... carry on.

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur hahaha you've been banned. What a surprise!

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Nope... but you're still kind of idiotic, aren't you?

Checking up on me?

Why?

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur I thought I smelled something funny. And I was right--you were nearby...

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Aww, you really got me! Good for you! I bet you can't wait to try that one out on the playground today, huh?

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Sure, when my pure-blooded Swedish wife (former athlete and model) and I go to pick up our nordic offspring from the local exclusive private academy, I'll try it out on some of their less worthy classmates.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Aww, is the NAZI showing his stripes, again?

'Pure-blooded'?!?

You're just a whole barrel of laughs, aren't you?

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Who's a precious Nazi with a Nordic wife? Who is it? You are! Yes, you are... little Nazi-wazi.

(I thought maybe you'd understand me if I used baby-talk... you don't seem to be capable of holding an adult conversation.)

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Ah yes I must be a Nazi. See how easy it is to be a racist? You no doubt convinced yourself long ago that you can't be a racist because of your swarthy complexion. Guess again. 

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 I don't have a swarthy complexion, idiot. See how easy it is to reveal yourself as a Nazi racist?

Just assume that everyone who disagrees with you is darker than you and crow about your Nordic kids and 'pure bloodlines...' imbecile.

You've revealed yourself to be a racist many, many times before this... did you forget that?

I didn't.

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Hey it's not my fault I was born a member of the master race. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to formulating my plans for global domination. 

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Hey, guess I was too, then! Awesome! Your 'German heritage' and 'pure-blooded' idiocy is amusing... but as a German myself I find you pitiable and pitiful.

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur No, you're not a German. You don't deserve the distinction of referring to yourself as such. Don't do it again. Ever.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 Yeah, I am. I am German. Your little issues with identity are your own.

Don't project on me, idiot.

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Prove it. 

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 What? How would you like me to do that?

What's more... I don't really owe you anything. I'm not concerned with what a racist like yourself thinks of me, sorry.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 P.S. I'm German. Thanks!

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Despite your obvious issues, it's nice to chat with you, German. What part of Mexico are you from?

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 What part of Germany are you from, Canadian?

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur My name's not Canadian. It's Steve.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 My name's not German but I am.

You're welcome Steve from Canada who doesn't answer direct questions but spouts idiocy about 'pure blooded' wives and 'Nordic' children!

[KenGS333]

@ElSeedyMinotaur "but I am" what? What are you? Come out with it. Don't worry you can be open with me. I won't tell anyone. Let's get it out in the open.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 I am German... you really have some reading comprehension problems, don't you?

I am so many other things, as well... a 'pure-blood' idiot isn't one of them. Sorry, we're not alike in THAT way.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@KenGS333 You can say that all you want but I am German.

Have a good day!

[biggergumboots]

@ElSeedyMinotaur You make fun of people with ADHD and then claim to have ADHD, then you call someone a Nazi racist and then claim to be German. Why do you continue to lie on You Tube? Apologize for what you said AND for stalking people on other pages, or I'm going to do this to you :)

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots Okay... I never made fun of people with ADHD. I said you post like YOU have ADHD... all over the place and incoherent.

I am German and I said that specific person was a racist Nazi because they discussed their wives pure bloodlines and their Nordic children and how 'racist' all black people are...

How many screen names do you have?

Why do you have more than one?

[biggergumboots]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Why so you follow people on to other pages and think that it's normal behaviour?

Why do you continue to lie and avoid the topic? Like you're doing on this page I see.

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots Hmm, I believe both you and Ken followed me onto this page, so you tell me.

How many screen names? At least eight, right?

Why do you need more than one?

[biggergumboots]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Do you really think being German gives anyone the right to spread their misery and hate around?  Do you think you have special rights to claim someone is a Nazi racist because you are german.

Would a person have the right to call someone a greedy Hebe because they're a jew?

Do you think your behaviour is normal? I don't think so...

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots I never said anything remotely like that.

I call people who display racist tendencies racist.

Like discussing their wive's 'pure blood' and Nordic children...

You just aren't very smart, are you?

Is that why you have so many names?

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots P.S. I haven't lied on YouTube... can you say the same?

I didn't think so.

[biggergumboots]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Evidence shows you don't think at all. Sorry

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots evidence:

'Why so [sic] you follow people on to[sic] other pages and think that it's normal behaviour?'

Yeah... as I said, you and Ken followed me here.

Evidence?

I've got plenty.

About those other names... why so many? Why more than one?

[biggergumboots]

@ElSeedyMinotaur Bye! Stalk you later...

[ElSeedyMinotaur]

@biggergumboots I'm sure you will...

[KenGS333]

@biggergumboots Yeah, he called me a Nazi because I was German, then suddenly decided that he was German, too, to try and piss me off.

[SororThothma]

@ElSeedyMinotaur "It is a frightening thing, the first time you cannot tell evil from good. In time, however, it becomes the very thing that sets you free." -Louis Mozart

[Taurusaud]

@Scholar2211 Alot of it is learned. By your own comment, you say that your mother encouraged intellectual pursuits, and thats why you came out ahead. Think of the children (most) who didn't have parents to provide them with that archetype - instead many parents just plop their children down in front of the television... what they see on tv, the stupid sayings, the stupid acts, etc. forms the basis of their personality. And television is much, much stupider these days than it used to be.

[LendMeYourHand]

@Scholar2211 What makes you think they are going after the stupid people?? They are targeting YOU & me.

[XpEAnUTBuTtERsUckSX]

@Scholar2211 It's not even eugenics by any Darwinian standard anymore, they simply want efficent population reduction.

[Weeman44444444444444]

@Scholar2211 Are you superior to me? 

[agenthelios]

Listen to those dumb people...my God, these people need to be sterilized.

[peaceandquietx1000]

i was a bad test taker too. 5:45 lol probably still am

[peaceandquietx1000]

i never liked IQ tests. they are really not accurate in measuring whether a person can navigate the world or not. we have lots of smart idiots who just cannot relate to others, and lots of people who are able to relate and understand others who cannot grasp advanced math. and there are those who can do both. we must learn how value all kinds of intelligences.

IQ tests and eugenic 4:28