In the disingenuous pretenses of social fakery, fraud and foolhardy performances, the cowardly behaviors of a devolving society hasten dystopic consequences. Contriving with the scheme of superficial memes, con artistry underscores the shallowness of interpersonal communication among many people. A glance and subtle view of facial expressions often returns the unspoken feedback of lingering ignorance as to any significant information exchange. Yet, in the short run, attention spans lurk back, look away or glaze over to the two-dimension screen of three-dimensional simulation.
The sham, the hoax, the fake news for instance, as well as the unproved conspiracy theory, forsake logical rationality for the satiation of the moment in emotion reassurance. Courage in the confrontation with the bluster and banter of social psychobabble frequently goes unchallenged for the want of political politeness. Of snake oil ruses and wooden nickel collective currencies, the double-dealing emanates from every cultural institution. Frauds and fools enjoy the safe mediocrity in secure conformity, from the cloakrooms of governing enterprises, to the boardrooms purveying gluttonous consumption.
Cons and schemes in social media and mass marking advertising insult and betray the few who seek a higher plane of civil enlightenment. Regardless of valiant adventurers, many choose mundane of paths of conformity. Like a zombie infection or an alien pre-invasion virus, communal stupidity spreads with pandemic proportions. By comparison, the fake or acts of fakery suggest the dishonest daily dealings of one person with another. As one investigator has lectured from a segment in the skeptical realm, humans are adept at things involving deception. So good at it, people easily deceive themselves.
Toxicity of “anti-thinking” dehumanizes, defrauds and degrades the very essence of human creativity and the quest for an evolved ascendency. Some have called the intentional communal schemes as that which “sissifies” the majority of the population. Others describe the diverse inclinations as a means for “dumbing down” most of the populace. Yet another unfortunate description has been that of “stupidity” or “idiocracy”. For such, additional detractors toward the mainstream include a variety of negative ascriptions. Oppressive conformity in status quo perpetrations are many faceted and insidious.
In the somewhat antagonistic proclamation as to the public, the “sheeple” foment the degradation of the human species in continues regressive stumbling into extinction. Flocks of the majority easy believe in the most simplistic hastily drawn conclusions about serious socio-economic and political issues. By the unvirtuous intentions of purposeful gullibility, most people flaunt their deceptions in sordid varied manners. Quick to follow the group, the crowd, the mainstream, or any other collective conception of “magical beliefs”, the majority recklessly engage in stupid thinking more often than not.
As some see it, the effects of human fakery, fraudulent actions and foolish behaviors mark an era that eventually culminates in the collapse of global societies. It is reflective of a time when arrogance smugly values unsubstantiated conjecture over profound intellectual analysis. Among families and coworkers, most are not honestly engaged in serious efforts directed toward mature growth and development. Satisfied with their static existence, the woeful lack of creativity, of stirring enlightenment, the many jeopardize and frustrate the few who long for change and transformation. Stupidity is rampant.
Deception weaves an intricate framework within the amative purposes of intentional stupidity. Foolishness in the immaturity of fraudulent perpetrations stems from the absurdity of using various means to achieve gain at the expense of others. Immediately someone might object that sometimes deception is necessary as in warfare, espionage or hostage taking. If common sense, as might be applied here, has degraded to that level for that person to counter such a claim, then perhaps an intelligent conversation is not possible. Of that posture, the generality suggested herein refers to social situations.
Noted, exceptions always occur, yet they are few and often remote. Regardless, in this slant, idiocy, silliness and generally being a nitwit, or a “yawner”, as in not enough oxygen to the brain, concerns purposeful illicit premeditated actions to deceive and mislead another person. By trickery and guile, one individual or a group intend to cause others to be harmed, discredited or misdirected in some way. Whether by information manipulation, or active inducement, persistent cons and schemes take place many times every day. From advertising to alleged “news reporting”, cowardly acts of dishonesty instigate all kinds of fakery. Rather than bold straightforward honest interactions, spineless performances of pretentious “transparencies” conceal a more sinister reality. In every organization, the majority will play the games of one-upmanship to selfish advantage.
With few personal examples of exceptional maturity and transforming differentiation, the majority within any human framework can be counted on to do juvenile and self-serving actions. Not on every occasions, but periodically stupid things will be committed for selfish reasons. As such, a framework is the organizational configuration in which people attempt to function, some successfully and others not so much, from day to day. Whether boardroom, classroom or playground, foolish behavioral antics will happen. The “organization” used here is the social matrix of interaction for the groupings people select in which to associate. Within these realms, a certain amount of collective conformity takes place. From which, immaturity spans a spectrum that exhibits a variety of behaviors.
From various mindful dimensional aspects of thinking complexity, choices are made with intentional effort directed toward satisfying personal gain. From a classical criminology standpoint, everyone freely engages in a deliberate and premeditated effort to maximize gain and minimize risk. Externalities such as the usual “suspects” used to excuse anti-social behavior, like poverty, bad parenting, poor environments, socio-economic disadvantage, too many guns, social media, etc., do not cause people to misbehave. People decide by self-interest the means and manner of their communal dysfunction. In the example often cited in the mainstream, many are quick to blame an “entity”.
These inanimate objects, processes or other non-human properties are easily called into perspective as “causative agents” by which human actors are “forced” to do dastardly deeds. Instantly, as though demon possessed by an unreal non-corporal entity, the pitiful human losses control of his or her will and weird things happen. It is as though fantasy and science fiction, along with every aspect of pseudoscience, becomes part of exaggerated storytelling. Reality is overwhelmed by stupidity of fakes, frauds and fools.
For instance, the internet in particular is often reviled as a perpetrator. In this unique realm of telecommunications, people become “radicalized”. Specifically, social media is labeled as a chief “conspirator”. While explanation as to how this actually happens remain nebulously questionable, the evidence to support such a claim is woefully deficient. Nonetheless, it makes people feel good to have some explanation even if false. From the standpoint of “magical thinking”, reinforced by the myriad fallacies of inference, people do not suddenly end up “snapping” as a result of exposure to assorted or sordid information found on the world wide web. Such a notion is foolishly immature.
Not only lacking in wiser spheres of realistic analysis, reinventing history at every opportunity to fit the feelings of the moment, and faltering in critical thinking, social interactivity degrades to purposefully shallow interactions. The superficiality of post-modern “anti-thinking” is an expression of moral cowardice. Spineless weakness is the fearful mantra of those too timid and unevolved to go what some have termed, the “hero’s quest”. To go out into the world, and serve others in selfless capacity.
For instance, as in policing or firefighting, the military, public health services, or other community forms of communal interactivity. For country absent a “public service” requirement, the post-high school learning process fails to ensure the adventure of growing up. Less than 3% of the population take advantage of such opportunities. Yet, growing numbers of successive generations play out their limited perspectives, and diminishing intellectual capacity, in the safe and secure fabrications of electronic mechanisms.
Why take risks and appreciate the value of pain, pleasure and the trials and tribulations of dealing with real world experiences? Why be honest, straight forward, bluntly candid and openly discerning, with a zealousness for wisdom in personal transformation? Instead, two thirds of the population are overweight and noncreative. Fat, complacent and bloated, overly consumptive in a burgeoning consumer culture, many default to the fakery of the unreal and the deceptive. Stupidity is rewarded instead of chastised.
Fiction is more emotionally gratifying than facts, proof and evidence that adhere to the rigors of scientific validation, based on a thorough investigation, and does not fit the personal agenda. Meanwhile, the pseudosciences, including the philosophies of the big three, criminology, sociology and psychology, and toss in the alliances with psychiatry, perpetrate diverse mythic illusions. With pretenses to being scientific, such philosophical endeavors have been successful in gaining widespread acceptance over a wide spectrum of mainstream society. The collusions are illicit and detrimental.
In the perpetration of the fakery, particular schools of thought, or perhaps better stated as philosophies, have gained what might be called a monopoly over the so-called “mental health” field. To protect the earning potential for the lucrative prospects in this realm, the complicity has successfully permeated every social institution throughout the U.S. Satirically labeled, “PIMP”, the “pharmaceutical industrial medical psychological” complex encourages easy acquiesce to simplistic notions of personal health.
To say conspiracy might be a stretch. Nonetheless, why not make the reference as an apt descriptor of the purposeful and intentional collusions to control and dominate an entire society. Where nearly an entire culture accepts a remedy for everything, a quick and painless fix, using some type of drug for whatever reasons, a concern is raised as to the long-term viability of society. Exceptionality always applies in certain narrow and descriptive applications. Seemingly, endless commercialization of almost every aspect of life, 24/7 infotainment advertising, and gluttonous consumerism abounds.
Regardless, by plots and schemes, intrigue of memes, social media, pretentious news organizations and movie making industries, promote myriad fallacies of inferences that become foundational “theologies” for the greedy to manipulate the stupid. In a devolving diverse culture, so many options are rampant to blaspheme intellectual advancement and healthy personal self-discipline, in favor of modern forms of magic and mysticism. Whether “dis-ease” possession or demonically possessed, the illusions continue, as mythologies assume respectability by sleight of hand trickery.
By way of research from a major “think tank”, working on behalf of the U.S. government, a glimpse into the deteriorating aspects of faltering creativity suggests the gloomy downturn of inventive artistic activities across the social spectrum. In furtherance of the perspective in the referenced investigative study, diminishing innovation, or critical thinking in purposed inventiveness, relates to authenticity of social advancement. To this end, prevailing expert opinion concludes that imaginative self-evolution, based on facts and reliable data are essential to the survival of the human species.
More so now than ever before, accordingly, “facts and data” devolved to mere speculation and regurgitation of anecdotal superficiality. With notable exception in small niches of science, the shallowness of contemporary opinion, notably in the pseudosciences, perpetrates a pompous social discourse that overwhelms and ignores scientific validation. Fiction stifles facts as specious conjecture goes unchallenged on many occasions.
Nonetheless, survivability of productive social interaction depends upon the veracity of factual evidence to ensure reasonable discourse. Decisive action requires the quality of relevant data to substantiate diverse actions. Critical policymaking decisions, for instance, rely upon the objective validation of factual representations. Inaccurate, unfounded and doubtful information does not contribute to efficient and productive processes.
Throughout the spectrum of socio-political and economic intricacy, success or failure in the real world depends upon complex processes. Of these interactions, reliability in the trustworthiness of information, and the authenticity of the claimants are to prosocial endeavors. Irrelevant and incompetent assertions and foolhardy actions do little to enhance the advancement of the human species. It’s disheartening to say the least that planet earth, given the current state of human habitation is barely a “type 0” civilization. According to some physicists, such a notion does not infer a complimentary status.
When there is agreement upon the factuality of evidentiary materials, following subjective yet mature well-reasoned analysis, even amidst controversy, confident decisions can be made more effectively. In post-modern American society, it frequently appears that counterproductive clashes offer more emotional reactivity, less sufficiency of proof, than well-found evidence driven discussion. Among some educators, there is the belief that a “dumbing down” has occurred in contemporary educational institutions.
Others would offer an explanation that explores the realm of I.Q. sustainability in the 21st century. Questions arise as to whether or not the majority of population is becoming increasingly less intelligent. To several researchers there is a growing body of data that suggests human I.Q. potential is regressing, as well as concerns regarding the devolution of humankind. As civil discourse degrades to a scheme of “tolerance for intolerance”, or one person’s feelings are more important than another’s, the human species devolves toward extinction. Most life forms on this planet have already done that.
Why would human beings be any different? Extinction has a way of rectifying evolutionary dysfunction. Foolishness in the smug piety of self-importance, with the arrogance of pleasurable ignorance, steeped in the sheep dip of immature superficiality, many allow their seduction to the cowardly fallacies of inference nexus. Stupidity relishes in the façade of disingenuous musings of emotional sensitivity. In one of several British studies appearing in a major business magazine, the assertion made as to how easy it is to deceive most people, since many quickly acquiesce to the path of least resistance.
As such, in the absence of self-willed, intentional and reasoned investigative analysis, the illusion becomes a rush toward the simplistic answer. Such effortless seduction become that which is the best choice over more complex solutions. Cognitive bias in the persistence to safeguard subjective validation assures a world of fakes, frauds and fools.
