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The Fight Against Stupidity

11/23/2025

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One can protest against evil; it can be exposed and prevented by the use of force. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment are simply not believed—in such moments the stupid person becomes dangerous because they are so easily roused to anger and violence.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Stupidity has been on my mind a lot this year and how America can attempt to combat its rapid growth. It seems nothing can be done at the current moment, when the president and complicit sensationalist media, ushered into America around 1895 with the New York Journal, push a society to worship individuals based on their wealth &/or exterior appearance. After 130 years of this being prioritized, we have a mass that are drowning in stupidity, occupying their time with meaningless trivialities pushed on them by the elite. The current circus, which has been in production since 2016, rivalling a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey event, immediately brings my focus to Idiocracy, the 2006 film by Mike Judge. This film, that is often overshadowed by its brilliant predecessor of 7 years, Office Space, introduces us to librarian Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and Rita (Maya Rudolph), a prostitute. This duo is noted of average intelligence and is put into hibernation for a government experiment. They are forgotten through time and wake up 500 years later to find a planet overrun by literal stupidity.

Joe is quickly arrested after he is unable to produce the proper identification to the police officers who seem to have the IQ of a 10 year old. At his court hearing, we witness a scene straight out of a Kafka novel. Incompetent lawyers speaking to an incompetent judge, all agree the defendant is guilty and should be thrown in prison for not paying his hospital bill and for speaking in a rational manner that is threatening to those in power. After Joe takes an IQ test in prison, brought to you by Carl’s Jr, the staff at the rundown White House comes to find out Joe is the smartest person in the world. It seems side effects may occur if we prioritize consumerism, anti-intellectualism, and hate for 500 years, as in Idiocracy. Diseases some would say on par with cordyceps.

In a move perceived as sheer genius, Joe suggests to the president, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews), a name I hope David Foster Wallace was able to witness, the failing crop issue might be resolved if they irrigate with water instead of the sports drink Brawndo, whose parent company is owned by the FDA, Department of Health, and the FCC.

President Camacho likes the plan and has the idea of bringing it up in his State of the Union. After his UFC-like entrance of an unnecessary light show, machine-gun fire and threatening the crowd, he promises that Joe will not only solve the crop issues, but will cure acne, car sickness, dust storms, and the economy as a whole, in one week, or else Joe will be put back into prison. This scene comes off more like the 2024 RNC convention with Hulk Hogan, Dana White, and President Trump rather than a fictitious movie filmed 20 years ago. President Camacho, in a fury, promises Joe will “Make the Crops Grow Again,” awfully close to another overused slogan that people are unable to explicate or tie the slogan theft to the Neoliberal monarch Ronald Reagan.

Joe becomes president of the United States after convincing the uneducated masses that crops will grow if water is implemented instead of a sugary sports drink. As we have witnessed since 2016, it seems there is no need to wait 500 years to watch the standards of becoming president of the United States sink to a depth equal to the Titanic.

In other news, it was announced this week, President Trump listed certain college degree paths as not being “Professional.” Whatever that means. Some of those degrees include: nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists, audiologists, architects, accountants, educators, and social workers. For those not aware, John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board (“GEB”) in 1902, funding it with $180mm from 1902-1964, roughly $7B in 2025 value.

Rockefeller’s GEB put the focus on educating the youth to wind up as compliant workers in mainly industrial, farming and scientific occupations, stripping the importance of liberal arts and critical thinking, as these routes aren’t viewed as profitable (in our modern standards) to those funding and creating the curriculum.

In a Trumpian future, writers, philosophers, artists, and anyone wanting to put their physical and intellectual health above profit will be extinct; finance bros, AI programmers, and lawyers will continue to clog the labyrinth of American society. This will occur not by accident, as the ruling class knows an exit from this Borgesian nightmare we are currently living in, may result in a society that prioritizes health, happiness, and peace rather than illness, anxiety, and war. They will not allow this outcome.

If empathy, compassion, critical thinking, and the truth of our country’s past are continually stripped from our education system, our plunge into an un-thinking plutocracy becomes wholly inevitable. We will continue to be ruled by hateful narcissistic trust fund incels who know nothing about struggle or eudaimonia.

If we continue to let the ruling class corral us into a life where our occupational duties are more important than pursuing our passions, or worrying about who Taylor Swift is dating rather than putting that effort towards bettering ones physical and intellectual health, we all will continue to live a life chained to wage slavery and debt peonage.    

There is still time to alter the course of society so Idiocracy doesn’t become a biopic of Donald Trump.