IS GLOBAL STUPIDITY ON THE RISE?
The population of the world is increasing exponentially. The collective intelligence of the world’s population does not appear to be keeping pace. Hardly a day passes without at least one example of incredible stupidity or ignorance. This week, three glowing examples of head shaking stupidity, again confirmed my hypothesis : the larger the population grows, the dumber we become!
Stupid example #1 : I recently confessed that I have been harassed by a number of collection agencies. When I sold my house in Dalhousie on October 31, 2015 I cancelled all my utilities, cable and internet well in advance. Direct Energy has been sending me an invoice for $36.88 for electricity charges from Nov 1 to Nov 12, 2015 on a house I no longer owned. My explanation that I was no more responsible for the energy charges to a property that I no longer owned, fell on deaf ears. I refused to pay and I thought my explanation was fairly straight forward and understandable. My “negligence” was turned over to a number of collection agencies that I have ignored.
Today, after four years, I received another letter from Direct Energy in the mail. Expecting further harassment, I was delighted instead to read that Direct Energy made a positive adjustment to my invoice and reduced the claim to $27.99 - a fabulous concession. I am now only going to have to avoid paying this smaller invoice for the rest of my life. I just wonder how much money in terms of manpower, postage etc they have spent to collect this unjustifiable amount?
Stupid example #2 : Vaping has become a big issue. Vaping involves the inhaling a vapour of a mixture of nicotine, flavourings and assorted chemicals, that are released when an electronic cigarette heats the chemicals. We read daily reports of deaths and respiratory induced hospitalizations of over a thousand individuals who have vaped. The relationship between the practise of vaping and potential death appears to have a positive correlation to me. That same correlation appears to escape millions of youth who feel that the evidence is not convincing, or they are immune to poisoning or they are super human. Super stupid appears a more appropriate description.
Some of the stricken victims of vaping are now suing one of the e -cigarette companies because the company said that e-cigarettes were safer than smoking real cigarettes. The fact that the affected believed the marketing advertisements of an e-cigarette company, but did not believe the cautions and warnings of health professionals, pretty much says it all. Group stupidity is alive and well.
Stupid example #3 : A British Columbia judge imposed a $2000 fine and six penalty points on a woman’s driving license when he convicted her of distracted driving. The defendant was travelling at over 60 km/hour when she was spotted by a police officer eating with chop sticks in one hand and a bowl of spinach in the other. The officer indicated that the driver did not place a hand on the wheel when he observed her, all the while shovelling food into her mouth with the chop sticks.
The accused, of course, was irate and felt that she had a very good explanation. She informed the judge that she was going “no more than 10km/hour over the speed limit” and she had three fingers of her left hand on the steering wheel while holding the bowl with her thumb and index finger. Apparently she felt that her three finger grip allowed her total control of her vehicle. And believe it or not, the judge did not buy her explanation.
I am so looking forward to discovering more evidence next week that further illustrates the rising tide of global stupidity! I am sure I won’t be disappointed!
2 comments:
Well Ken when we look at what we have running our countries(you noticed I said what not who) what can we expect? We have hovering parents giving their children what ever they want and when they want it. They don’t allow them to make any decisions for themselves in many instances and even go as far as doing the talking for them,.As is the case with our illustrious PM if they do get into any trouble it is always someone else’s fault and never any consequences for their actions. When they do get out on their own many are very “ drummed” down and make very bad decisions , some of them being fatal , and it is still societies fault and they have this mentality is not going to happen to them only others. They have no idea how to be responsible for a lot of things as parents have looked after them socially and financially and like our PM think budgets look after themselves so when they find it doesn’t work that way we have depression, turn to drugs to obtain their comfort zone and then end up suicidal . Yes we are living with a society that is more stupid and many parents should be looking in the mirror to find the answers.
AMEN to that , Norma.
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