We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Carl BernsteinTags: life humanity culture idiocy
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin CrispThe problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."
(The Decider, July 21, 2007)
Tags: politics humour ideas ridicule idiocy folly dunning-kruger-effect
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
Alfred de VignyNow that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.
Julio CortázarTags: criticism enthusiasm critics idiocy
You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed to be otherwise.
There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
Jim ButcherTags: idiocy harry-dresden audacity
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct,
Mark L. ShurtleffTags: murder god death religion mercy idiocy death-penalty victims executions psychopathy attorney-generals firing-squads press-conferences ronnie-lee-gardner utah utah-department-of-corrections
Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go."
"You're not?"
Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out.
"No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot.
Tags: humor romance sarcasm idiocy
Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.
John IrvingTags: america self-importance george-w-bush idiocy incompetence
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