Dowbrigade

90% of the problems in the world are
caused by smart people. The other day our son was wondering "Why are
there so many stupid people?" Wrong question. It should be, "Why do the
smart people get to tell everyone else what to do?"

Despite their best efforts to pretend otherwise, being
very smart does not make one a better person, or any wiser or fairer
or better able to understand their fellow Americans, any more than being
very rich or being a very good athlete does. And yet it is the smart
and rich who take it upon themselves to tell the rest of us what to wear,
watch, read, talk about and think.

The core problem with our system is those it calls to
power. Smart, ambitious power-mongers, many with an ax to grind and a
few with certifiable psychoses. They are rewarded for cutthroat treachery
and back-door deal making, and eviscerated for showing weakness or human
foibles.

Gone are the citizen civic leaders, called briefly and
reluctantly to public service and happy to return to their farms and
families afterward.  We have bred a soulless class of civil servants
led by anointed families and legions of power-starved, manipulative,
type "A" assholes.

In a cruel, condescending emasculation of the spirit
that made America great, these smartasses have the temerity to decide
what normal people should think about, and what they should think about
them! They try to sell stuff to us by pretending to be "dumb" and figuring
out what they think "dumb" people want to hear. And because people buy
their shit, they think they have us pegged.

The misery, misfortune and angst of the intelligensia
is constant evidence that intelligence is not all its cracked up to be.
We are working on a multi-volume series titled "Why Smart People do Stupid
Things". The tragedy of our times is than in order to prove and re-prove
these truisms, millions of just regular people need to suffer and die.