Tuesday, August 24, 2010

On consumerism

Here's a short excerpt from the British film "The Age of Stupid."


2 comments:

Dan Rouser said...

Always and inevitably every one of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals who are in circulation.

The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of all other characteristics of that person.

A stupid person is one who causes damage to another person or group of persons and does not simultaneously either realize any advantage for himself or, in fact, undergoes a loss.

Non-stupid persons always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people. In particular, non-stupid persons constantly forget that in any place or time and under all circumstances to deal and/or associate oneself with stupid individuals will infallibly prove to be a costly error.

Carlo M. Cipolla

Richard said...

Takes me back to the election of Ronald Reagan...twice.