A Response to Carl Sagan on American Stupidity

People in the fifties hated Cowboy Shows, and said the same thing. It’s not the glorification of stupidity, but the technology that amplifies it, and gives it a bullhorn… and then wicked people who know how to manipulate the masses through symbols, images and black and white ideas.

People are not very brilliant. And never were. You read something like the Ulster Cycle, it’s hilarious the kind of politics they did, such as presenting bare chested women to invading armies and getting offended at pig roasts.

Like, Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great—both having about 140iqs—were just those rare sorts who came in an advanced society, and those advanced societies were cultured by traditions. That’s where we went wrong, was attacking the traditions. As that’s the education of the lowest common denominator, is religion, myths, history and tall tales. Which, for the most intelligent, they must also grapple with the genius of someone like Jesus in order to shepherd the people right.

Christianity is just true. The simple need it. The intelligent need it. Everyone needs it. But, they need tradition, too. George Washington and the Cherry Tree they need, they need to know about the World Wars, the Revolution, Slavery, Abolitionism, the Civil Rights Movement, The Civil War, they need the old Nursery Rhymes… the old movies preserved a historical tradition and connected us to an authentic history. That was destroyed around 2010, and also the language got reinvented and simplified.

We’re dealing with a malicious actor, but it’s no person or bodily entity. It is indeed the devil working through many seared consciences wanting to sincerely improve the world.