Open Letter To The Humanoids

We've known it since well before we hit puberty, but more proof arrives every day:

It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

Two new academic studies suggest all roads lead to ignorance.

The first, by Harvard’s Michael Norton and Duke’s Dan Ariely, finds that Americans grossly underestimate how much inequality our economy produces.

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As Northwestern University’s David Gal and Derek Rucker recently documented in a paper titled “When in Doubt, Shout!” many Americans respond to convention-challenging facts not by re-evaluating their worldview. Shaken by an assault on their assumptions, many become more adamant in defense of wrongheaded ideas.

There is obviously no reason or purpose to the continued existence of people, so please do one of your betters (US!) a favor & vanish from the face of the earth, before our righteous rage gets us off our ass & over to the sarin dispenser.

File this under: Threats, Maybe Not So Idle.