Humans Are Stupid

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As uncertainty increases, so does human stupidity.

I have witnessed this on many occasions. As something becomes less familiar, the human mind has to work overtime, which causes mistakes and irrational decisions. This could result from getting lost, being delayed, having major changes to deal with and many more things which all too frequently happen.

For example, I am stuck in traffic because they have to clear the scene of an accident. The woman in the car in front of me isn’t very patient. She sees several trucks cross the median of the road, a huge grassy dip. The trucks can make it, but I very much doubt a car could. She attempts it several times, but each time suddenly decides not to take the risk. At one time, her entire car was off the pavement and it looked like she would actually try it.

There was no traffic coming from the other direction since all four lanes were shut down. It took about thirty minutes for traffic to start flowing again. This wouldn’t have been quite as stupid had she actually gone and made it across. But if she had failed, it would have been so much better.

Happy New Year!

Well let’s hope for a new year of lots of new stupidity! Just to give an update for those of you anxiously anticipating more content, we have over 30 drafts in the works. This is awesome since we are jotting down first hand accounts and will be able to report extensively on it. We are hoping to release our holiday articles first and have corresponding ones in the future.

Also in the works are articles imported from the old site that still make sense. A lot of those articles were written so stupidly… alas by me.

Restoration of Older Posts

So far two of the original articles from HAS have been restored. I plan on restoring more and setting their dates to their proper time frame. This messed up the idea of having a post every 3 days so I may have to come up with some additional ones and just restore the originals over time.

Some HAS articles will not be restored since their content was in context and cannot be made to make sense anymore. I will do my best to lose as few articles as possible.

Money: A Convenient Excuse for Human Evil

It stupefies my tiny human brain when I contemplate the formidable power of a few wrinkled pieces of funny-smelling, dry green paper. It may sound naively obtuse to all of the worldly, complacent materialists out there, but ever since I was a little kid I thought it was funny that pieces of paper should hold so much sway over a person’s very existence. I found it very curious, and I still do.

Essentially, we use money and NEED it because of how stupid we are. People cannot and WILL not give or do anything without getting money in return. “Well, naturally,” you may say, “how else does the world work?” But there are instances in which the demand for money should be superseded by higher obligations. For example, a sick person can be turned right out of the hospital if he/she does not have health insurance or any other means of paying the doctors on the spot. (I actually know two people to whom this has happened. One was having symptoms of a stroke; the other had an aggressive cancer. The latter is now deceased.)

There is something chilling about the fact that people expect one another to pay in order to stay alive, as if buying survival was akin to paying for a magazine subscription, or an iPod. Magazines and iPods are luxuries – they make life pleasurable, but you don’t absolutely need them. But survival is…well…survival.

In cases like the ones I mentioned above, doctors should be willing to accept delayed payment from a patient with a life-threatening or even a potentially life-threatening condition, if said patient cannot pay at that exact moment. I mean, come on! It isn’t as though doctors are such a financially strapped group of people, anyway!

This is just one example I can think of in which the nobility and compassion that humans believe they possess should override their immediate need for compensation now, now, now!

You can lose money, but you can get it back – even vast quantities of it. But an individual life can never be replaced. So which has more value? The expendable, or the irreplaceable?

But that’s exactly the point. People are still too bestial a species to give help to those who desperately need it without expecting something in return. But then, human stupidity has led to this exact same phenomenon – maybe if people felt that they could trust one another, this kind of selfless behavior would occur more often.

The world needs money because people are stupid, but then money makes the more irrational and amoral among us do stupid things, leading to more insecurity, resulting in a greater dependence on money. It’s a tragic cycle that feeds on itself.

Black Friday: Bane of Shoppers & Workers

Ah Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving where many stores offer great deals on select items in an attempt to get people to shop at them for Christmas. It is a headache for the shoppers and store employees alike. Even before you get to the store it becomes a headache just from driving in the traffic. The parking lots are packed as you try to find one single open spot remotely close to the store you want to get into.

But you must get that TV that is 60% less then normal or the new gadget that is 80% discounted. For some this is worth the headache and hassle. What about the others though? Some dread going out on this day for the simple fact that most humans turn into primal animals. Their lust and desire for the deals turned them into hardened fiends. They must get to the deals no matter the cost and before the store runs out.

This takes a toll on those who are using their day off to start Christmas shopping and general goods shopping, ignoring the “black deals” that others directly aim for. These innocent people are sometimes caught in the crossfire. The Black Deal shoppers will take their rage and anger out on them if there is any interference. This can lead to physical and emotional damage on both sides.

For the workers it can even be more damaging. They have to endure the ridicules and crassness from these customers! While you may think that the workers are just doing their job sometimes the stores have them come in at the early hours of the morning. When the store then opens people flood in like a wave and try to grab all the good deals before anyone else does. What then happens when a deal is gone? Those customers take it out on the workers.

What can be done to avoid this? Stay indoors! Don’t go out on this day. Avoid anything that will cause you to leave the safety of your home. Only go out if there is absolutely no choice. If you do go out remember the above and try to keep it in mind as you work your way through the horror and confusion that is Black Friday.

Have your cake and eat it too?

Mmmmm cake. So if you were given a piece of cake what would you do with it? Look at it? Sit on it? Throw it? Well no matter what YOU would do with it most people would eat it. This is called having a piece of cake and putting it in your mouth and swallowing it.

So what’s with the expression “Have your cake and eat it too”? I mean if you’re going to get a piece of cake you’re going to want to eat it. Well according to Wikipedia that isn’t the original expression. The original is actually reversed so it goes more like “Eat your cake and have it too”. This implies that you can’t eat your cake and then have it.

Somewhere, sometime, something went stupid. Someone reversed the expression and we got this whole new illogical one. I mean, what fun would a completely logical and sensible expression be anyway? Someone said it wrong and then spreading like wildfire, it became adopted as canon and BAM!, we have a whole new expression, as stupid as it may be, with the original being forgotten.

So next time someone says that expression, please try and correct them. Let them know why it is wrong how they said it. Maybe together we can restore it to its proper usage and this will be a forgotten entry in time.

HAS is almost back!

That’s right! We’re gearing up and having stuff ready and prepped. Once we start this snowball rolling we’re afraid what’s going to get rolled over on the way down! We have a couple more authors in mind to ensure that there is a nice flow of material constantly so we don’t get dry.

Get ready and be prepared!

Life is Boxes - School

Every morning, you are torn from your deep sleep, pulled out of your bed, and put into a moving box. This moving box takes you to a large box with other people. Now, in this box, some people are in charge, regardless of how smart they are. For some reason, age determines superiority. Well anyway, in this large box, you get to have a box of your own… except, you really don’t get to keep anything good in your box. Only the stuff that they give you is allowed in there. And forget about privacy, the older people can get in your box and look at your stuff at any time.

Now, in this large box, there are medium size boxes. In these boxes, you learn things that you can apply to the Very Large box of life. Well, when it is time, your bell rings, allowing you to leave your box and head for the feeding box. You are granted 30 mins. to eat (I have never found a Union of workers that would settle for 30 mins. of lunch) and leave for… yep, your next box!

After your day of boxes is over, you get on the moving box for your living box. Welcome home, or should I say “Welcome box”.

Ruling of Money

It rules everything you do. Plain and simple, money is NOT the root of all evil, it just provides fuel for what version evil you want to play with.

Answer me this: Would you work if you didn’t get paid? No, of course not. Greed is good. It makes us want to work harder, to get that car, that house, that lovely retirement fund. Yes folks, money is what makes you get up in the morning, and go to work. We would all lead boring plain lives without the want for money.

Would you do something that causes you bodily harm for large sums of money? Many people do. Hockey and football players injure themselves every time they step into the arena, for millions of dollars a year. Professional sports are a multi-million-dollar-a-year business. Why? People like to watch things that they can’t do. AND WITHOUT MONEY, THEY COULDN’T SEE IT HAPPEN!

I crave money… I will work as hard as I can for it, because I need the stuff to live. And so do you.