Comments on: The Stupidity Register http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Mon, 21 May 2012 15:39:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-47046 Donagh Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:46:22 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-47046 I'm not sure if it more drugs or less that you need Gareth. This comment though is not nearly as good as your last contribution ;-) http://dublinopinion.com/2007/06/25/beirut-snapped-from-a-tri-pod/ I’m not sure if it more drugs or less that you need Gareth. This comment though is not nearly as good as your last contribution ;-)
http://dublinopinion.com/2007/06/25/beirut-snapped-from-a-tri-pod/

]]> By: gareth http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-47005 gareth Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:59:03 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-47005 yo site is bangin bro,,, more chiks wud make it fly tho - hey that rimes mother- AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHh yo site is bangin bro,,, more chiks wud make it fly tho - hey that rimes mother- AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHh

]]> By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-46540 Donagh Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:25:51 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-46540 Yea, the burning of books as a practice of cultural and intellectual control is to be condemned by every right minded citizen...except of course when it comes to Dan Brown's corpus. And indeed why stop with Dan Brown. Once you've got the lighter out you might as well move through anything which can be categorized as Mind, Body, Spirit - or homeopathy in a bookshop. On the people bit James Watson entitled his latest memoir Avoid Boring People. Wise words perhaps, but look what a <a>nut</a> he turned out to be. "A priori, there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so." Yea, the burning of books as a practice of cultural and intellectual control is to be condemned by every right minded citizen…except of course when it comes to Dan Brown’s corpus. And indeed why stop with Dan Brown. Once you’ve got the lighter out you might as well move through anything which can be categorized as Mind, Body, Spirit - or homeopathy in a bookshop.

On the people bit James Watson entitled his latest memoir Avoid Boring People. Wise words perhaps, but look what a nut he turned out to be.

“A priori, there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

]]> By: Tomaltach http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-46539 Tomaltach Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:02:25 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/11/20/the-stupidity-register/#comment-46539 My wife and I always have this discussion about high culture versus low culture. (She claims that much of high culture is just up its own as and that while low brow stuff is generally crap it has always been thus and it in a certain way reflects real life) But anyway. The point I wanted to make was this: if we are to create a stupid filter, please let's not stop at the internet. Let's get one for the TV - after we apply it those 1020 channels will become one part time channel. Let's apply it to books, and haul the real books out of the corner and onto the stands which now carry all that celebrity horseshit. Let's apply it to music stores, to radio, perhaps, de nen de nen, to people. Reminds me of a song whose provenance I forget "Why should I share the air with foolish men". My wife and I always have this discussion about high culture versus low culture. (She claims that much of high culture is just up its own as and that while low brow stuff is generally crap it has always been thus and it in a certain way reflects real life) But anyway. The point I wanted to make was this: if we are to create a stupid filter, please let’s not stop at the internet. Let’s get one for the TV - after we apply it those 1020 channels will become one part time channel. Let’s apply it to books, and haul the real books out of the corner and onto the stands which now carry all that celebrity horseshit. Let’s apply it to music stores, to radio, perhaps, de nen de nen, to people. Reminds me of a song whose provenance I forget “Why should I share the air with foolish men”.

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