Dec 10, 2011 / Topic Ideas

Is there a cure for stupidity?

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  2. I blamed my self to cure it, I say to my self Bad boy Jake Your a bad boy,
    After that I arrange everything i said again to my self Good work Jake Good Work He,he )

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  4. Personally, I don’t think anybody is stupid it’s just the choices that they make and the interest they posses. If you are doing something you don’t like, or you have difficulty with the quality of your work is going to decrease. It’s all about the effort and motivation people have to complete the task. Unless we paid people to be motivated, “stupidity” is going to always exist.

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  8. I’d open a Think Centre – a relaxed coffee shop and library where people are welcome to come for conversation and intellectual self-improvement. It would be marketed at adults who didn’t gain as much from conventional schooling as they could have, and now have the maturity and curiosity to improve their minds. Activities would include courses, mentoring, book groups, life skills, guided conversations.

    I have thought a lot about this – it’s my dream job.

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  9. I had that same idea a few weeks ago! I want to open a prestigious coffee shop somewhere in a metropolis where the average person can get an amazing coffee for a low price, and relax in the main room with live jazz music in the background, but also have a lounge for the more wealthy costumers with private rooms for presentations, business meetings, and think tanks. Why not, right?

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    1. I quite agree, although I wouldn’t separate the well off into lounges. Mixing with people from all walks of life is another strategy in the battle against stupidity. After all, stupidity transcends all barriers, classes, races and religions.

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    2. That’s mad! That’s similar to my idea. I see a gap in the market here. Have you got a million dollars? If we put our money together we could create the ultimate place! 🙂
      Even franchise!

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  11. There are so many kinds of stupidity. Not knowing from a lack of education.
    Being brought up with two morons on drugs. Shooting someone for overtaking on the road. Banks that hand out rifles when you open up a new account. Cheap media TV a brainless way of dying slowly. Toddlers in Tiarres a kind of child abuse glittered and presented as good TV.A Fun Gift Shop

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  16. This is a good question and I like what most have to say about it. I do however agree that it is not always about being stupid but the choices that one makes and what the concequences are to those choices. I did see the movie Forrest Gump not that long ago on cable TV… and the statement he makes about stupid is as stupid does… comes to mind. I feel that when we are left with a difficult choice sometimes we make a decision based on the first thing that comes to mind and if it turns out to be a bad choice then we say that was “stupid” and move on and don’t do it again. Where the problem gets out of hand is one the lesson is learned and we continue the same behavior expecting a different result… this is stupidity.

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  17. This question is posed to us in a way that somehow assumes that we, the people who are answering this post, are “above” the stupidity…which is a pretty STUPID assumption, if you think about it.

    So, with that in mind – I’d spend the money on myself, since I’d be pretty STUPID to assume that everyone around me, besides myself, is less intelligent than I am.

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  19. There is no cure for stupid. Take it from an MD that deals with some real ones every day. Stupid is a person who is too dumb to know they are stupid, so why would they ask for a cure?
    If you knew you were stupid, you would try to do something about it.

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  20. Buena la respuesta de “trixie gabriel”.
    Todos lo somos en alguna medida y circunstancias. Reconocerse no es fácil, aceptarlo y tratar de ya no serlo. requiere actitud personal y colaborativa.

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