ASTOUNDED BARELY DESCRIBES MY REACTION when seeing the story recently about all the unvaccinated people dying of Covid and their friends, family, & neighbors still persisting in refusing to get vaccinated. Did you see the video showing the woman who insisted that the vaccine magnetized her, and to prove it, she kept sticking a key on her neck, which persisted in falling ingloriously off? Or the poor fool who thinks it’s a government plot to inject microchips into people? Or kill them? There’s an obvious irony there, of course, but as Oscar Wilde said, “irony is wasted on the stupid.” The problem, of course, is that these idiots’ refusal to act rationally endangers all of us. Italian economist Carlo Cipolla, in his essay “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity,” categorized four essential types of humans: the helpless, the intelligent, the bandit, and the stupid, and pointed out that three of those four groups are destined by character to harm others, themselves, or both. So the plague of Covid continues apace, fed by the refusal of stupid people to obtain a life-saving vaccine. “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity,” said Harlan Ellison. And stupidity, adds Frank Zappa, “has a longer shelf life”
Hi Henry i considerate it as natural selection, they,re too stupid to know whats good for them.
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Hello HenryM.
I did find this post most interesting and, as usual with your posts, they are a pleasure to read. I have rarely ever classified people as 'stupid' because there are so many other designated diagnostic descriptions that often fit perfectly well for ineptitude and/or diminished responsibility as well as so many other socially dysfunctional attributes of people.
However, as I was recently contemplating the concept of 'bullying' as it might relate to the covid pandemic, it occurred to me that people could be classified in terms of their behavioural responses (also reflecting their attitudinal stances). Thus, I’ll reproduce below some of my thoughts on this subject to add and maybe complement your own contributions to such a discussion.
Best wishes
Bill
A COVID METAPHOR & R.I.M. MODEL FOR COVERT BULLIES.
There are surely things we need to learn about ourselves in this time of the Covid19 pandemic.
My interest in dysfunctional people and bullies got me thinking that there are comparisons to be made with the way people are behaving during these times of crisis and, it is perhaps an opportune moment to build a ‘model’ of behaviours to try to explain/expose what is happening.
Covert bullies can be said to be ‘asymptomatic’ because they often do not manifest overt symptoms.
Covert Bullies do not ‘suffer’ their condition but impose it on others so that other people ‘suffer’.
Covert Bullies can be described as ‘carriers’, in much the same way as asymptomatic people ‘carry’ and spread the covid19 condition. However, not all asymptomatic people deliberately want to spread the condition to others who may then consequently ‘suffer’.
We therefore need to make distinctions between (1) those who are responsible, ‘benign-carriers’ and wish nobody else any harm; (2) those who are irresponsible and do not care about the effects of their behaviour on others; and (3) those who are malevolent and wish to harm as many other’s as they can.
Below is a draft model for making the distinction between these three types of people who may not show overt symptoms (of bullying or covid19):
‘A’ (asymptomatic) PEOPLE
R I M
Responsible Irresponsible Malevolent
(Benign) (Care-less) (Dangerous)
caring, uncaring malicious
considerate, inconsiderate vindictive
thoughtful, superficial Machiavellian
helpful, unhelpful spiteful
kind, unkind nasty
unselfish, selfish narcissistic
benevolent, mean spirited hurtful
warm-hearted, indifferent cold/calculating
good-natured, unfavourably disposed bully
friendly, aloof devious
warm, cold manipulative
affectionate, unfeeling unscrupulous
agreeable, disagreeable unpleasant
amiable, indifferent cruel
sympathetic, unsympathetic callous
compassionate, heartless merciless
well disposed, ill-disposed warlike
obliging, unobliging ruthless
liberal, conservative fascist
benignant u nfriendly hostile
generous mean rancorous
accommodating, unaccommodating obstructive
cordial, unfriendly antagonistic
genial, unapproachable dangerous
passive indifferent aggressive
social anti-social treacherous
non-killer occasional-killer serial-killer
WHERE ARE WE - ON THE RIM?
When I refer to on the ‘RIM’
it is, of course, an acronym,
which helps to show what we may know
about the way some people go.
I use the ‘R’, the ‘I’ and ‘M’
to try to identify them
in terms of underlying traits
which might range from love to hate.
We need some guidance as to what
basic traits people have got,
so, we can guess how they will act
long before it is a fact.
Where there are people who don’t show
those outward signs, we still should know
that they might pose to us some harm
so, raise a cognitive alarm.
The ‘R’ stands for ‘Responsible’,
and ‘I’ for ‘Irresponsible’.
‘M’ means they’re ‘Malevolent’
thus, rarely are benevolent.
And here, we have the basic theme,
from people being nice to mean,
especially when other’s can’t see
from outward signs what they might be.
The lists are there to ascertain
if someone else might cause us pain,
based upon their attributes
before they show that they are brutes.
I would maintain for ‘I’ and ‘M’,
we need some strict controls on them,
before they harm, injure, or hurt
even though they are covert.
Be Withers 2020
PS: Sorry if the list did not copy & Paste properly but this is the best I could do!
