I wish I was really stupid sometimes. Life would be so much easier. Getting good grades wouldn't matter. I wouldn't think about whether God was real or not, I would just accept it. I would never think up questions about physics, space, and other things that I know will never be answered in my lifetime. Damn.
You mean I wish I were stupid. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! j/k On a more serious note, unless you have already done so, I recommend that you obtain and peruse a copy of Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley. It's a sublime and colorful piece of literature which regards the topic over which you seem so horribly exasperated, comrade. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Yours Truly, Redoubt
I think it's natural to never be truly satisfied with what you are. The young want to be older. The old want to be younger. I'm quite tired of being an adolescent, but there isn't very much I can do about it for the time being. I think that instead of wishing to be stupid, you should wish to be simple. Think Winnie the Pooh. Not stupid, but simple, always happy, always content. Doesn't care about things that don't matter, and hardly anything matters, except for honey.
Pollux, are you reading or have you read The Social Contract? If so, how is it?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I am reading it. At times Rousseau (spelt correctly?) can speak quite eloquently, however it seems that at other times the text degenerates into almost completely unintelligible babble. Maybe it's just my translation. But it is really cool stuff, the first lines of the book automatically prompt you to re-examine the entire world. Getting past his prose is proving to be quite the challenge however... edit: Given the choice, I'd rather read Plato.
I wonder if there is a drug one could take to "dumb himself up" for a day... I heard of a pill that basically shuts down one half of the brain. They use it for experiements.
Not really, not in this case! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Were is a past tense, so that would imply the person in question used to be stupid, but is now not stupid. This does not seem to be what the writer here meant; She seems to wish to still be stupid. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! No mgwisni, you're not stupid. I know what you mean; if someone was stupid they wouldn't know any different. However this would have some downsides: they would be missin gout on some things, while they are there for others to appreciate. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
In Italy (I did a Philosophy course in Italy this summer) there was a girl in my class who was the epitome of stuck-in-a-bubble. If this were the matrix she would be so locked in they'd have to kill her, there'd be no chance of pulling her out. She lived in her own little wealthy world with no knowledge of reality and not a single bit of understanding on how people truly functioned or that people different than her actually existed. What was hilarious was one day we had the matrix discussion in class; would you rather remain in a happy matrix or know the truth? Her answer - in a purely hypothetical setting, of course.... "I don't think I could deal with not understanding what's around me. I'd feel like I was trapped and locked up." Everyone has at one point said the words "I wish I was dumb". What you eventually learn is, you might be. I once repeated that phrase quite often to myself, and I was one of those who eventually just realized I am already. And before we get into the whole debate again, I do not consider myself a complete idiot. Just simply far from intelligent in any kind of true or valuable way. The same goes for being "aware" - a phrase people here love to use. I don't consider myself that aware either. When you're in the process of realizing everything you know is wrong, you tend not to consider yourself very aware.
Oh - and it is my experience that there is not a single human being who has been educated at all that does not ponder the existence of god. You'd be surprised the kind of people I've had this discussion with. Think of the most thugged out, ridiculous stoner dumb-ass at your high school... Trust me, he's pondered the existence of a higher power.
mgwisni, I must give you congrats for accomplishing your goalPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Completely agree with Pollux and Tyler. I often hear the phrase "the most ingenious things are the simplest" or something to that affect. There have been numerous times where that might apply. For instance when something is wrong with your computer what is the first thing the tech support personnel will tell you? "Is it plugged in?" And unless a peron knows everything there is to know in this universe, then that person is already plain and simply dumb. But if you were to say you wish to be "dumber" then I suppose it's just all relative.
Tyler, don't we need someone to make a comparison to, in order to place ourselves relative to him/her intellectually? You can't say that your car is slow when you've never seen a fast car. Who do you consider "aware"--"enlightened," and for what reasons? What puts them above you?
the less you know the better you sleep at nite. ignorance is bliss, really. i wish i was stupid. re: matrix, i'd totally rather be in the matrix. that guy who betrayed the team when he made a deal with the robots, i completely understand him. if i'm in the matrix now and some dude in some metal desert "unplugs" me, i'd kick his ass. i wish i was a sheep...not understanding anything.. just blindly believing what i was told. its much easier to live that way.
