Snoop,
Perhaps the best definition of stupidity belongs to Carlo M Cipolla, once professor of economic history at Berkeley and author of a 1988 essay "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity". Cipolla says that... "a stupid person is one who causes damage to self or others without corresponding advantage".
His other four laws are:
1. We always underestimate the number of stupid people.
2. The probability of someone being stupid is independent of other characteristics.
3. The 20 per cent of us who are not stupid tend, stupidly, to underestimate the threat posed by the stupid majority.
4. A stupid person is dangerous.
I have uploaded a PDF of the whole thing at my place for your perusal.
See here and download.
I almost blogged on that Milne article myself. His other example of Western hypocrisy over Georgia was that Israel invaded the sovereign democatic nation of Hizbullah!
He he. Yep, that would be Seumas...
The only Seumas could ever reach the limits of his stupidity would be never to write or speak publicily.
Hmm if there was anyway of converting Milne's stupidity into electricity then UK could slash its oil imports and forget building new nuclear power stations. THe sad thing about stupidity is that is seems to be utterly renewable...
The only Seumas could ever reach the limits of his stupidity would be never to write or speak utube publicily.
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