Platinum said:
oy thats annoying.
This even worse ,
But I am shure you have better things to do ,like jack to a set of nasty milk bags.
In terms of social control, a really stupid society would put
more and more people in prison while ignoring the social factors which
produce criminality. One would wait until the cost of police, prison,
and probation exceeded the cost of child care, effective schooling and
full employment programs. Then, once safely pass the point of no
return, such a society would continue to put more and more people in
prison, build more prisons to accommodate them and brutalize the
inmates so that they are more likely to return to a life of crime thus
maintaining its structural stupidity.
A naturally stupid society, lacking information about its debt
ratio, its real income, its ability to produce wealth and about the
social problems mentioned above, would continue to increase national
debt, consumer debt and foreign debt until it exceeded the point at
which it could avoid bankruptcy. An artificially stupid society would
collect tax the poor to fund programs that benefit the rich thus
eliminating the base for taxes upon which its own problem solving
capacity depends.
Grants, tax holidays, free tax zones, tax rebates and tax
abatement for the rich are most helpful to artificial stupidity since
the rich do not need better housing, safer autos, more education or
pollution control. One can lower the demand cycle by taxing the poor;
by disemploying them; by lowering wages or by increasing prices. Thus
one can give the dramaturgical appearance that there is no real need
for decent housing, effective education, or pollution control since
there is no market demand for them.
Info-cryption
Artificially stupid societies are designed to conceal or
withhold information from those who need it by a variety of means.
The USA, as a case in point, has developed artificial stupidity to an
art form, i.e., its stupidity is crafted by tens of thousands of
highly paid artisans. It has very sophisticated information
processing capacities. All that technology is narrowly focussed and
used to serve the information needs of the most powerful which, in the
USA, begin with the military and end with multinational finance
corporations.
Profoundly stupid societies give those with money and power
effective control over the deployment of whatever research capacity it
has. Those who are closest to the problems and in possession of the
best data are systematically excluded from setting research programs
or providing information about the faults and flaws in a society while
those who benefit from existing conditions are selected as sponsors or
experts in such problems. Much as a stupid shepherd would ask a wolf
what is killing the sheep, a stupid society would ask American doctors
why minority children have higher death rates than those in Nicaragua
or Cuba. They would argue for free enterprize and thus exclude still
more kids from prenatal care, vaccination, food and a clean
environment. Likewise one would ask professors why students fail; ask
owners why workers go on strike; ask racists why Blacks are not in
college; ask men why women are raped.
In the USA, the best computers, best satellites, best
scientists and best software are focussed upon the problematics set by
military and by multinational corporate elites while other social
institutions are starved for information. Much as great cathedrals
exist in societies which systematically murder their neighbors signal
failing grades in MQ, great edifices of learning, knowledge and
information amidst hovels, shacks, and huts filled with ignorant,
frustrated and violent denizens, signal those societies with the
highest SQ scores.
Artificially stupid societies permit a few people to have a
monopoly on information and sell it for profit, status or political
power. Societies which have a lot of information about health and
medical matters and which permit 700 thousand doctors to keep 150
million others waiting for it is an artificially stupid society.
Monopolies by lawyers on law and legal matters as well as copyrights,
patent laws, licensing and registration of trademarks and proprietary
information all work to increase the artificial stupidity of a
society.
The remainder of the information flow capacity of a thoroughly
stupid society is given over to sports, soap operas, nature shows and
trivia quiz games on the commercial networks. Such networks
constitute cheerleaders during wars of economic predation and serve as
PR agents for corporations which close factories, abandon cities,
pollute oceans and conspire with each other to fix prices. Again, in
America if not in the world, broadcast networks and news monopolies
enable the nation to increase its SQ.
Although the Public Broadcast System and National Public Radio
with its in-depth news reports and its critical documentaries threaten
to lower the overall SQ of the Nation, the Nixon administration took
steps to maintain the structural stupidity of the country. It opened
the door for commercial sponsorship of PBS programs. In turn, private
corporations funneled its monies into nature shows, concerts, sports
programming, conservative commentary, money and stock reports and
other kindred programming which helped keep the SQ score in the upper
ranges of all societies.
Perhaps the largest single body of experts engineering
artificial stupidity are in the advertizing industry and its close
cousin, Public Relations. This industry absorbs $200 billion (1990
figures) to manufacture images in lieu of quality. It uses the best
artists, best musicians, best actors, best cinematographers and best
engineers to manufacture images of quality, images of utility and
images of necessity for cheap, useless, and even harmful products. It
uses the best ideas from psychology and the most clever innovations in
stage, screen, radio, or religion to shape the desires and needs of
consumers, voters, taxpayers, students, women and children. It uses
advanced demographics and social research data to create the
dramaturgical impression of greatness in product, in education or in
health care for those who have the price to pay $250,000 or more for a
30 second ad.
The advertizing industry uses the liveliness and loveliness of
human sexuality to peddle ugly dead things. It uses the elegance and
beauty of sports as an envelope into which to transfer human desire
from human beings toward beer, batteries, panty hose, muscle cars or
military goods. The advertizing industry has created the postmodern
condition and is using postmodern art, music, comedy and color to
redeem it in a fictive world is creates on television, in magazines,
political campaigns and history books. An intelligent being might
think that there are better uses to which postmodernity might be put.
Such selective use of whatever intelligence capacity of which
a society is capable is most functional to the preservation of the
natural stupidity of the nation. Were the same resources available to
deal with housing, health care, child care or to problems of crime,
the stupidity quotient of a society would decline precipitously.
Tunnel vision produces, in a way of speaking, a crises in artificial
stupidity; too much knowledge seeking too few outlets.
T.R.Young
Now you can get back to your man juice squirtings.
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