{"id":72213,"date":"2012-07-11T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17287"},"modified":"2012-07-11T22:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:19:35","slug":"the-stupid-is-the-mind-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/11\/the-stupid-is-the-mind-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"The stupid is the mind-killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments below I expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/07\/still-not-understanding-the-nature-of-affairs\/#comment-141738\">anger<\/a> when I realized one of the readers who I had hoped was <em>not<\/em> stupid was really rather stupid. I don&#8217;t have a high toleration for this sort of stuff, which has supposedly become somewhat well known in the blogosphere (judging from comments about me on other weblogs). When I was younger I suspect I had more toleration for this sort of thing, and engaging with the dull is something that needs to be done, just like you need to change a baby&#8217;s diaper because you know they&#8217;ll soil themselves, and they can&#8217;t be left that way. Perhaps there&#8217;s a fixed amount of sympathy for people who shit themselves because they don&#8217;t know any better, literally or metaphorically. I&#8217;ve got to deal with the former right now, so maybe I&#8217;m not having any of the latter anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\nSometimes I wonder what world I&#8217;m living in, where rank stupidity can get passed along by newspapers as &#8220;letters to the editor.&#8221; For example, you have to read this whole piece from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephen.chauvin\">Stephen Chauvin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/courier\/opinion\/state-board-of-education-is-correct-on-evolution\/article_3949bd46-5dbe-500c-8cd6-d44225adbbf6.html\">State Board of Education is correct on evolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About once every six months or so, either Bill Barnes or Karyl Paige &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/QolRWI1KLpM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments below I expressed anger when I realized one of the readers who I had hoped was not stupid was really rather stupid. I don&#8217;t have a high toleration for this sort of stuff, which has supposedly become somewhat well known in the blog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}