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Stupidity Sucks

I was doing some research tonight on a few topics for school and for my new business and I came across a couple of blogs where people were ranting about things as though they were the experts on the subject. However, the spelling in both of the blogs was outrageous. What was intended to say "weak" was spelled as "week", "welfare" was spelled "wellfare", and numerous other seemingly simple words were incorrectly spelled. Many of these mistakes would have been easily corrected simply by using the spell check function before posting.

How can people speak as though they know all things when they can't spell words that were learned in the first grade? What makes people think that it is okay to go through life being stupid and pretending to be intelligent? These people were arguing until their fingers fell off about how they knew best, but they couldn't likely spell the word "best"!

I think the certainty with which these people wrote their mistakenly spelled words says something about our society today. We have become so self-centered and so self-indulgent that we actually believe that we could be the expert--despite never finishing high school, despite never studying the topic, despite being incapable of writing a sentence without a mistake of spelling or grammar. We actually think that we are right devoid of any factors that would indicate correctness. We believe that "right" is what we believe. What I think is what is intelligent. What I believe is what is true. All of the standards of reason and provability are gone. It doesn't need to make sense. I just have to have said it or thought it. "Common censce" was another of the mistakes in spelling. The person calling for sense of a common sort couldn't even spell it. What makes them think they have any "common censce"? They don't even know how to use a dictionary.

What is the world coming to?

Please stop arguing if you are stupid. At least learn to spell before you try to make an intelligent argument. What you think is not necessarily what is correct or true. Only the people who understand that fact are the people who are not stupid. Only the people who know they don't know all the answers are truly intelligent. Stop being so self-centered. Listen to people. Learn something. Pretending to know something does not make you look smart. It makes you look even more stupid.

Yup, I was right. Spell check picked out every one of those misspelled words.

posted by CT @ 10:11 PM