“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The preceding quote was penned by Leo Tolstoy and gained prominence in Anna Karenina (1877). In some quarters this is related to what’s known as the Anna Karenina principle. That denotes a means of determining whether a marriage is even going…
I’m getting married in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the stopper, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get me to the church on time. Even better is how the above ought to go…. I’m getting born in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the umbilical, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get…
Neil de Grasse Tyson runs a regular series called Star Talk along with occasional and special guests. His regular co host is Chuck Nice and Star Talk is a great programme often involving scientific fact, scientific debate and scientific curiosity. Almost every episode has a good sprinkling of humour, necessary because its a way of…
When one considers the current war – instigated by Trump and Netanyahu – there can be no doubt its driven by leaders with a huge idiotic sense of things. Their actions are akin to using a nuclear bomb to kill a canary. Steinbeck was right – All war is a symptom of man’s failure as…
Gen Z is said to be less intelligent. Does that mean humanity is getting thicker? Or is it the woke mind that suffers? A trawl through a number of posts from X reveal an interesting mix of thoughts and perceptions – clouding what is really happening when stats show a discernible drop in the comprehension…
In our modern world, intelligent individuals regularly make baffling decisions. These could be any number of professionals whose contradictions raise concerns. Why such poor decisions? Immanuel Kant identified this trait centuries ago, calling it ‘immaturity’ – the refusal to use one’s own understandings without guidance from another. Kant says society educates and meshes people together in…
While many see war as a terrible and often irrational act (no doubt its a stupid thing too), war is frequently treated by governments as some kind of ‘necessary evil’ in defending sovereignty or response to extreme aggression. The prevailing modern view, especially in the context of advanced, destructive weaponry, is that war is an…
Two X posts on stupidity were made in January 2026 – on consecutive days. The first by Wayne Mathison on 25 January and the other by TonyS. on the 26th, both cover Bonhoeffer in detail. These discuss the state of Germany during WWII and how Dietrich Bonhoeffer sought to analyse why the country was becoming…
One might think this post about what entails to be elements of a belief system is naff, but its certainly factual even if the very tangibility that is presented can be easily challenged. There are elements which can be paralleled in terms of how the hearing construct certain scenarios. This was also a time when…
What if the sentences in your head, the choices you make, even the tone of your speech, are not really you at all, but the output of something living inside your mind? And in fact what one says or speaks is essentially not stuff of their own making. Is this why humans are basically stupid…