Investigators tell News 9, they believe Anthony Tyler Mitchell is the man seen on surveillance footage destroying the power supply to News 9’s NextGen Live radar in Northeast Oklahoma City Sunday night.
It’s not just stupid. Back in the 90s i knew plenty of ‘im a dumbfuck’ hippies and mountain-people who knew it, and said things like “i don’t vote. I don’t know what the hell any of this is, and my voice wont improve your government” or “i don’t understand that geopolitics shit. I vote for the guy id trust around my daughter. So… I think carter? I voted for carter.”. They would be, like juggalos or something today. Politically speaking. In fact im certain some are.
Theres also the ‘hood politics’ approach-a podcast explaining politics in terms of high school drama and growing up in a rough neighborhood, with the central vibe being ‘the difference is the distances involved and the outfits. If you understand that, you understand all of politics.’
The problem is malevolent anti intellectualism. The problem is engineered blindness. The problrm isn’t stupid stupid, it’s weaponized stupid. Its autodehumanization. It’s tribalism and fear and… Things too complex to explain here, but involving a fear or mistrust of understanding and those who do it, and a kind of relentless self loathing you couldnt really do when a dumb guy could just fuck off to his wood shop and make something useful and beautiful given enough time.
Idiocracy is no longer a cute meme, stupidity is how civilizations collapse
It’s not just stupid. Back in the 90s i knew plenty of ‘im a dumbfuck’ hippies and mountain-people who knew it, and said things like “i don’t vote. I don’t know what the hell any of this is, and my voice wont improve your government” or “i don’t understand that geopolitics shit. I vote for the guy id trust around my daughter. So… I think carter? I voted for carter.”. They would be, like juggalos or something today. Politically speaking. In fact im certain some are.
Theres also the ‘hood politics’ approach-a podcast explaining politics in terms of high school drama and growing up in a rough neighborhood, with the central vibe being ‘the difference is the distances involved and the outfits. If you understand that, you understand all of politics.’
The problem is malevolent anti intellectualism. The problem is engineered blindness. The problrm isn’t stupid stupid, it’s weaponized stupid. Its autodehumanization. It’s tribalism and fear and… Things too complex to explain here, but involving a fear or mistrust of understanding and those who do it, and a kind of relentless self loathing you couldnt really do when a dumb guy could just fuck off to his wood shop and make something useful and beautiful given enough time.
It’s ok for people to be stupid. It’s not ok for stupid people to be dangerous.
Wilful ignorance is dangerous. It’s not a difference of political opinion.