Saturday, December 30, 2017

The Year in Stupid

Sorry, folks, but my equanimity is challenged by the incurious, ill-educated, superficial, narcissistic, rage addicts who search for a reason to be un-happy, angry, judgmental, and condescending about every single thing that doesn't fit into their desiccated awareness of reality.

I appreciate that much of this is driven by the post-Christian aspect of our society, as well as the  neo-Marxist ideology that politicizes everything in higher education and enables young people to remain ignorant and wholly dependent on their professors' limited world view and values.

The other evening, I listened to someone at a dinner explaining to my wife that the last presidential election had left her [wait for it] "literally shaking" to the extent that she would wake every morning in a fetal position.  Yeah, the person she wanted to win the election didn't and that left her in a state of perpetual mental/emotional derangement.

The fellow to whom I link relates a year's worth of this nonsense.  It's as remarkable as one might imagine.

The Year Reheated: In which we marvel at the mental contortions of our self-imagined betters.

Oh, look.  More of the stupid:
Lincoln Elementary School art teacher Mateo Rueda had no idea what was in store for his career when he wrapped up a lesson Dec. 4 by telling students to look through some art postcards in the classroom library for examples of color usage in notable paintings.
The cards, which were part of an educational package called “The Art Box” produced by Phaidon publishing, were placed in the library before Rueda began working at the Hyrum school. He knew the set portrayed a wide variety of classic artworks, but he has since said he was not aware that three or four of the 100 pieces featured in the box showed nudity.
Before the week was out, Rueda would find himself at the center of a controversy at the school, would be contacted by police after someone filed a classroom pornography complaint against him, and would eventually be out of a job.