People are Capable of Amazing Stupidity

And even more amazingly, they are not aware of this.

In fact, saying they are stupid, is not saying enough. There are many other things you can say about them, all unflattering and all accurate. And, to make it worse - this has gotten worse, because people think they have gotten smarter.

And, by strange coincidence, I bought The Big Short  - about the Financial Crisis of 2008. This was an eye-opener for me, and I could believe it had been overlooked by most people. Note that important phrase most people. Most people, as I have already said, are idiots.

Where can I go from here? Nowhere, really. All I can do is stay pat, and enjoy the feeling of being right - for a change. I can imagine telling my Sister about what I have found. She would simply say "That has nothing to do with me!" She is wrong, of course - in today's world, everyone is affected by everything. Whether we like it or not.

This not something new - the world has always been like that, where everything affected everything else - to a greater or lessor degree. But the Scientific Method, had divided the world into many specialties (commonly referred to as Silos) and communication between them was difficult.

To put this another way - we have become so smart, we have become stupid.