Here are some more views you will not like.
Stupefying Universities
Universities make several important contributions to the
structural stupidity of a nation. Large classes, impersonal
processing, irrelevant course requirements and inferior instructors
all contribute their share to naturally stupid societies but there is
a lot more that can be done to prevent intelligence. Selective
screening of students does much to stupefy a nation. Again, if an
educational system does its share to exclude or to expel women,
Blacks, Chicanos, Indians and the children of the working class, it
builds great reservoirs of ignorance in the general population upon
whom great stupidities depends.
Schools assiduously teach young people to take education
seriously when it should be fun. Schools teach young people tons of
stuff that they can never use and wonder why it is forgotten. Schools
teach the literature of dead white males as if those in living color
had nothing of interest to say. The more linear and impersonal the
stuff is, the more important professors say it is when, in fact, the
more mystery and magical a thing it, the more engrossing it is.
The liveliest students with the liveliest imagination are
dumped out of the school system leaving only those who will sit
quietly long hours enduring boring and useless lectures given by
indifferent and arrogant teachers. The thought is that, if one will
sit quietly taking notes for 12, 16, or in the case of psychiatrists,
20 years, one can be entrusted with any really stupid task.
Artificial stupidity is functional to the structure of class,
gender and racial privilege and is to be encouraged by any society
wishing to preserve its larger stupidities. Again, estimate of SQ are
easily derivative; one simply takes the total number of women (or
Blacks or Indians or Chicanos) in the general population as the
numerator; install the number of women (etc) actually in university as
the denominator and one has a quick and dirty reading of the stupidity
quotient of a society. There is much more to be done to refine such
scores but, as a crude indicator, it is not off by any magnitude.
For example, Women can be systematically routed into some of
the more stupefying disciplines (home economics, physical education,
teaching or social work) while men are routed through the more
demanding (but still tunneled) disciplines such as engineering,
military science [sic], medicine, law, or agriculture. Land grant
universities offer a model for structurally stupid societies to
emulate while such elites universities such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT,
and Yale contribute to artificial stupidity in quite another way; they
offer good education to safe constituencies.
Notre Dame, Alabama, Nebraska, Florida State and University of
Nevada at Las Vegas manage to maintain their contribution to
structural stupidity by emphasizing football, basketball or track
while disdaining any effort to build an intelligent knowledge process.
One can say with confidence and pride that a football player or
basketball star coming out of Notre Dame or UNLA is as ignorant about
society and nature as they were when they entered, or perhaps, more
so. It is not an easy accomplishment and should be acknowledged for
its contribution to the general stupidity of a society.
Stupefying Faculty
A society with an extensive educational system, a plethora of
social problems and the unused capacity to solve them requires a
special kind of a faculty if it is to maintain first place on an SQ
scale. In American universities, professors make their special
contribution to artificial stupidity.
Sociology faculty teach the children of the lower classes that
stratification is functional: someone has to do the tedious and the
dirtiest jobs at the lowest possible wages or the stratification
system won't function. Everyone knows that women, workers and
minorities must function as if they were stupid or a structurally
stupid society will fall apart. Everyone knows that strong democracy
is not possible and were it instituted in the work place, in the
market place or in the university, the whole stupid society would
collapse. Sociology faculty teach children of the upper middle
classes that their own privileged place in society is the result of
merit, which, presumably, one day they will display in their display
of artificial rationality.
Sociologists teach premed students that their studies are much
harder than is the labor of the farmer or the factory hand therefore
they deserve higher wages after they graduate. They teach lawyers
that their work is much more important to society than is food or
housing work therefore lawyers deserve to earn 5, 10, and 20 more than
farmers or carpenters. Sociologists teach their students that
sociology is the queen of the sciences therefore they should never
entertain a critique of it.
Economists teach students in economics that there is an
invisible hand that will, someday, make everyone wealthy and
prosperous if only some people stay poor and in ill health now so some
can be wealthy and prosperous. The data from worker-owned and
operated firms are discretely neglected since they tend to show that
costs are lower, quality higher, profits larger, absenteeism absent
and worker moral higher that are firms owned by the leisure class.
Political science professors teach their students that America
is a democratic society but, happily, fail to mention that it is run
by some 200,000 members of elite clubs, schools, corporate firms.
They teach students that a country run by a few special interest
groups is a pluralist country and therefore a democratic nation. They
argue that when a citizenry votes for one of two candidates--both
preselected by corporate and conservative interests--that such a
process is a democratic one. Students are kept assiduously ignorant
of the fact that doctors, lawyers, merchants, corporation executives
and organized crime bosses get together regularly at clubs,
conferences, retreats and restaurants to make sure that this invisible
hand squashes opponents, critics and nay-sayers while it fixes prices,
assigns market share, divides up whole continents and organizes
blacklists.
Psychologists teach students that all behavior, all morality
and all criminality is a product of the single individual acting alone
out of anger and anxiety left over from potty training or from nipple
biting. Infantile desires and frustrations are blamed for crime
rather than disemployment, compulsive consumerism, racial hatred,
profit rates or nationalism. Morality is never a function of a whole
social formation but only the separate acts of a person who follows
the rules. Criminality is not generated by the everyday norms and
values of a society but by the private greed or impulsive violence of
unloved persons. Mother is blamed for much of what goes wrong in
banks, schools, police stations, armies and football teams while
father is blamed for what goes wrong in politics.
Hydrology researchers, forestry instructors, engineering
professors and vet med teachers all contribute to the artificial
stupidity of a society by their enthusiastic service to whatever and
whomever has the funds for research. Ag profs in california invent
hard and tasteless tomatoes so multinational food companies can lower
labor costs. Landowners in Pakistan want to hog all land so they hire
'modernization teams' to build agricultural systems that only big
farms can use and irrigations systems that are too costly for small
farmers. Plywood companies want cheap timber so foresters strip a
forest of its many species and replant one quick growing pine and thus
impoverish the natural variety of a forest and its inhabitants.
Infoxication.
Naturally stupid societies spend a lot of time in praise of
themselves. They are self intoxicating. A society organized to
behave stupidly gathers information about its own behavior, filters
out the negativities, broadcasts its positivities and institutes a
cadre of publicists (called professors, priests, politicians, and
reporters) to redefine negativities and to celebrate positive
accomplishments. Such self administered info-toxins produce ecstacy
and bliss but do little for self knowledge, self healing and self
renewal.
People who fail to admire their own society mindlessly,
enthusiastically, boisterously are driven off, excluded from policy
processes and shunned as unpatriotic. The recent events in the
Persian Gulf are helpful to a theory of naturally stupid societies.
The Iranian media, clergy, academy and state officials dutifully
joined Saddam Hussein in labelling Americans devils, demons, beasts
and Satans. American reporters, professors, priests and local
politicians worked assiduously to celebrate America while reviling and
upbraiding Saddam Hussein as a Hitler. Good looking anchor men and
women everywhere cheerfully label anyone and every one 'enemy,'
'terrorist,' 'criminal,' or 'subversive' as defined by their
presidents and prime ministers. Structurally stupid societies are
unable to see any thing worthy in other societies. This is most
helpful in engineering the death or destruction of others.
T.R.Young
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Edited by unretarded (04/01/09 03:40 PM)
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