Do you believe that most people are stupid and must be told what to do?
Do you believe that most people are stupid and must be told what to do?
I think that you can guess how I have voted
People at all levels of intellect are blinded by passions and preconceptions, but (mind you I work with people who are MR and/or have dementia) almost everyone is capable of reasoning through situations. So I voted “no.”
Xanderman,
I think that’s a rather unfair question. Many people may be easily influenced by marketing and the consumer culture, but that does not mean that they are stupid and it does not mean that they need to be told what to do.
A good question might be: are people easily tricked into doing things that make them look stupid.
How is it unfair? It may be blunt, it may be rude, but it isn’t unfair.
Where is the fish that in uninfluences by the water in which it swims? Every American is influenced by marketing and the consumer culture because that is our culture. Nobody here is above it, beyond it or outside of it. Not you and not me, not even the Ludite who lives in a cabin without running water or electricity.
The criticism of our culture is part of our culture.
Ok, what is that question good for? Tricked by whom? Look stupid to whom?
The word “stupid” is loaded and has an absolute quality to it.
“tricked by whom”
Whomever!
How does the adage go? “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
well MissAnchovy got a scholarship…
yeah yeah, it was cheezy and only to fishy pizza college, but still…
-Imp
It doesn’t at all surprise me that, as of this posting, yes votes are leading no votes. I wish the attitude was harmless, reserved for places like this one. Unfortunately the danger comes when pseudointellectuals, such as populate this site, go on to take positions of authority…“servants” of the people. Subjective, arbitrary laws are made and enforced against innocent individuals in the name of “helping” them because they are deemed “stupid” and “must be told what to do.”
“pseudointellectuals, such as populate this site”
I assume that only a real intellectual could identify a pseudo, so I am suspicious of your assessment Jerry.
The world is stratified. Get over it
It’s not the stratification that bothers me. It’s what is imposed upon us (I’m counting myself as one of “most people”) in its name.
Not only are most people stupid, but most of them have no right to be alive.
Well, unless they are put to good use. 
No.
Most people are not stupid, only conditioned.
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Wow, the last time I checked this I was the only person who’d voted that people are stupid.
People are manifestly stupid, just watch them trying to, say, work out which movie to watch. If we were as intelligent as we think that we are then such a decision would take a moment, nothing more.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with the entire human race not being as smart as it thinks it is…
People may lack perception but they are not stupid. Choosing a film has nothing to do with IQ, rather it has to do with not knowing what one wants. That means they are confused, not stupid. And since when did someone have to be dumb to be told what to do?
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Hi Jerry, could you share your credentials with us? Thanks
Hi, Obw. I have none. I have already made it clear that I count myself as one of “most people.”
I never said that IQ has anything to do with choosing a film, merely intelligence of a sort. I see intelligence as encompassing a very broad spectrum, but nonetheless I respect the intelligent more than the unintelligent.
As to being told what to do - why not? They won’t necessarily listen, people are stubborn…
This is true people are stubborn to their conditioning in the face of reality.
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