Fundamental theory of stupidity

People are stupid. It is inevitable, all knowledge is imperfect because we can't possibly know everything. We may at best get a feel for what we do actually know but we're still gonna make mistakes, it happens even to like messiahs and prophets and shit. There isn't one person in the world that hasn't said or done something stupid or caused some harm to some other parties in some way. So what? So fuxking relax. In fact the more people you put together the less they will collectively know. Terry Pratchett of all people said the way to determine the IQ of a crowd is to take the lowest IQ from the crowd and divide it by the number of people there. I gotta admit with the best of intentions I wen't along to protest the outbreak of 'war' in Iraq and was feeling a complete lack of solidarity as I watched I construction worker from trades hall run past me yelling 'Anarchy, yeah anarchy let's spread anarchy yeah wooh!' that was cool he was happy just to have an arvo off work and I dig it.
But we know so much about how to avoid making bad decisions and we still do them all the time, on matters of faith you can argue all the time because there's no way to rationally win on ground that consists entirely of faith but drink driving? using heroin? unprotected sex? replying to unsolicited spam mail? smoking? fucking Noam Chomsky would be hard pressed to come up with rational arguements to merit these poor decisions. The messages have been rammed into our heads again and again yet people still make these decisions all the time. The only answer you ever need is just an exceptance of the fact that people are generally, characteristically stupid. It makes life interesting though and puts money in my pocket. Anti-ageing creams, designer clothes infact any consumer good designed to make you look good. Only a moron would buy these again and again and it may look like a waste because you can always change fashions season after season and rename and repackage and reprice the same old chemicals and it's okay. It's not wasteful, it's just the most effecient means we have to sell intangibles, like confidence and self esteem, contentment. We sell these concepts that people can probably just as easily make at home by putting them into little bottles and stitch them into fabrics, and people can buy them and it has an impact on their self esteem and confidence and contentment they just where out because we have to use tangible goods to hand them over. I imagine one day marketers will just stand around in department stores and you pay them $129.95 to have them say 'you're looking good and feeling better, look your lips are very sensuous and your pretty well built, you got a lot to offer and a pretty good support network that loves you very much. Go think on that.' and you go home and you think on it and the intangible product lasts much longer and actually manages to appreciate. But right now people just need something to spend their surplus money on and it's luxury items, they have to really because otherwise there's no real point going to work. There's no real reason we do half the shit we do. We just don't know what we're sposed to be doing, we've got imperfect knowledge. As yet all meaning in life still requires a bit of faith to make up for missing reason. Some people don't even have cause to dwell on what the point of their life is cause everything is peachy, hence you can just listen and do as your told whether thats saying 12 hail marys or buying into real estate because it always goes up (ou damn speculators!). Just relax, someone may know what the meaning of life is. Many people may know. But knowledge of how to communicate it is imperfect because all knowledge by definition is imperfect because we are born into a universe of everything that's been around forever (two infinite vectors) and we start off knowing nothing and occupying very little space (two finite vectors) there's no way we could catch up, even if we all get together and try and share knowledge there isn't enough time in the day to learn everything your partner knows and you to share what you know cause you have to go on living. So people are fucking morons relatively speaking, devide a finite number by an infinite one and you get a number so close to zero it may as well be. So if you ever ask why? or have lost faith in humanity just remember we're stupid, there's nothing wrong with that, we're trying. Some lessons we may have to learn 7 or 8 times so don't fucking panic. I myself take great pride in the fact that in six months time I'll look at this post and say 'Tohm you fucking moron' it's pretty much the reason I started a blog.
Anyway just thought i'd share, so long as I keep learning eh.