If Ignorance is bliss, then what is, Stupid?

They say "ignorance is bliss".
Maybe Yes, maybe No. But being ignorant is very different from being,
Stupid. And ignorant person may be very wise in many areas, but lacks
training or natural abilities to gain enough information to rise above
ignorance in a specific subject.
Ignorant people often rise above their ignorance. But stupid people
wallow in the Pig Pen they have helped to create. Ignorant people are
often able to educate themselves and become knowledgeable. Stupid
people are mentally lazy, and revel in their own stupidity, building
on it and refusing to allow any outside influence to enter.
An ignorant person may come to question what they know or do not know
on a particular subject. A stupid person is so dull witted that they
actually believe that their opinion is the only truth.
When I was a young man, I believed we had many ignorant young people.
But, said I, with proper education they will rise above this ignorance
and come to a wiser place. In retrospect, I believe I was young and
foolish, and unable to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
This morning I listened to Donald Trump spew venom to the nation.
Around him came cheers and frantic cries. A cunning man gathering his
stupid forces of hate.
Heil Trump! Heil Trump! Heil Trump!

Carl Jarvis
On 11/24/15, R. E. Driscoll Sr <llocsirdsr@att.net> wrote:
> All:
> A beautifully written article.
> R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
>
> On 11/24/2015 8:29 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
>>
>> Herzog writes: "There's a secret intelligence network funded by evil
>> billionaire brothers determined to choose the next American president.
>> No,
>> that's not the plot of the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A.
>> circa 2015."
>>
>> David Koch and his brother Charles are trying to buy young peoples minds.
>> (photo: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters/Corbis)
>>
>>
>> No, You're Not Paranoid: The Koch Brothers Really Are Spying on You
>> By Katie Herzog, Grist
>> 23 November 15
>>
>> There's a secret intelligence network funded by evil billionaire brothers
>> determined to choose the next American president. No, that's not the plot
>> of
>> the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A. circa 2015.
>> A Politico article reveals that industrialist brothers Charles and David
>> Koch have a team of 25 - including at least one former CIA operative -
>> quietly gathering intelligence on the American left. "The operation,"
>> reporter Kenneth Vogel writes, "which is little-known even within the
>> Koch
>> network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as 'competitive
>> intelligence'
>> that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to
>> identify
>> potential threats to the expansive network."
>> Terrifying! But is it really all that surprising? The Kochs are
>> reportedly
>> sinking $889 million into this campaign season. Why not have a secret
>> agency
>> to spy on the opposition too?! Gotta cover all your bases when you're
>> dropping nearly a billion dollars on an election.
>> The motivation for this secret spy network, according to Politico, was
>> the
>> 2012 presidential election, when the Kochs' handpicked heir to the White
>> House was trounced by the Democratic incumbent. But the brothers want
>> more
>> than just a president in their pocket. "While the Republican Party
>> focuses
>> on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics,
>> government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope
>> to
>> spread more broadly," Vogel writes. That's right: Welcome to Earth,
>> brought
>> to you by Koch Industries.
>> Here's more from Politico:
>> In addition to delving into the left, the competitive intelligence team
>> also
>> monitors potential Koch network threats, according to sources familiar
>> with
>> it. It tracks people deemed suspicious outside the offices of Koch
>> network
>> groups, circulating be-on-the-lookout photos to internal network email
>> lists, while keeping an eye on the network's own ranks for possible
>> leakers
>> or disloyal employees.
>>
>> One former network executive remembers an email containing a photo of a
>> man
>> identified as an operative with the environmental group Greenpeace who
>> allegedly had been spotted taking his own photos outside the network's
>> cluster of offices in the Courthouse neighborhood of Arlington.
>>
>> Connor Gibson, a Greenpeace researcher who focuses on the Koch network,
>> said
>> he visits its component groups' offices once a year to pick up their tax
>> filings, and he speculated he could have been the operative photographed
>> by
>> the competitive intelligence unit. While he said he's never sought to
>> conceal his identity during such visits, he added "If the Kochs consider
>> me
>> an opponent, I'm flattered."
>>
>> In another instance, sources say, [the surveillance] team set out to
>> identify an IT contractor who was working for one of the network's groups
>> and was posting anonymous messages to Reddit, proclaiming that he worked
>> for
>> the Koch brothers but despised their stances. Within 48 hours, the team
>> had
>> sleuthed out the offender and his contract was terminated.
>>
>> "They were scared to death of moles," said the former executive.
>> And the rest of us should be scared to death of them.
>>
>> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
>> valid.
>>
>> David Koch and his brother Charles are trying to buy young peoples minds.
>> (photo: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters/Corbis)
>> http://grist.org/article/no-youre-not-paranoid-the-koch-brothers-really-are-
>> spying-on-you/http://grist.org/article/no-youre-not-paranoid-the-koch-brothe
>> rs-really-are-spying-on-you/
>> No, You're Not Paranoid: The Koch Brothers Really Are Spying on You
>> By Katie Herzog, Grist
>> 23 November 15
>> here's a secret intelligence network funded by evil billionaire
>> brothers
>> determined to choose the next American president. No, that's not the plot
>> of
>> the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A. circa 2015.
>> A Politico article reveals that industrialist brothers Charles and David
>> Koch have a team of 25 - including at least one former CIA operative -
>> quietly gathering intelligence on the American left. "The operation,"
>> reporter Kenneth Vogel writes, "which is little-known even within the
>> Koch
>> network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as 'competitive
>> intelligence'
>> that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to
>> identify
>> potential threats to the expansive network."
>> Terrifying! But is it really all that surprising? The Kochs are
>> reportedly
>> sinking $889 million into this campaign season. Why not have a secret
>> agency
>> to spy on the opposition too?! Gotta cover all your bases when you're
>> dropping nearly a billion dollars on an election.
>> The motivation for this secret spy network, according to Politico, was
>> the
>> 2012 presidential election, when the Kochs' handpicked heir to the White
>> House was trounced by the Democratic incumbent. But the brothers want
>> more
>> than just a president in their pocket. "While the Republican Party
>> focuses
>> on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics,
>> government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope
>> to
>> spread more broadly," Vogel writes. That's right: Welcome to Earth,
>> brought
>> to you by Koch Industries.
>> Here's more from Politico:
>> In addition to delving into the left, the competitive intelligence team
>> also
>> monitors potential Koch network threats, according to sources familiar
>> with
>> it. It tracks people deemed suspicious outside the offices of Koch
>> network
>> groups, circulating be-on-the-lookout photos to internal network email
>> lists, while keeping an eye on the network's own ranks for possible
>> leakers
>> or disloyal employees.
>>
>> One former network executive remembers an email containing a photo of a
>> man
>> identified as an operative with the environmental group Greenpeace who
>> allegedly had been spotted taking his own photos outside the network's
>> cluster of offices in the Courthouse neighborhood of Arlington.
>>
>> Connor Gibson, a Greenpeace researcher who focuses on the Koch network,
>> said
>> he visits its component groups' offices once a year to pick up their tax
>> filings, and he speculated he could have been the operative photographed
>> by
>> the competitive intelligence unit. While he said he's never sought to
>> conceal his identity during such visits, he added "If the Kochs consider
>> me
>> an opponent, I'm flattered."
>>
>> In another instance, sources say, [the surveillance] team set out to
>> identify an IT contractor who was working for one of the network's groups
>> and was posting anonymous messages to Reddit, proclaiming that he worked
>> for
>> the Koch brothers but despised their stances. Within 48 hours, the team
>> had
>> sleuthed out the offender and his contract was terminated.
>>
>> "They were scared to death of moles," said the former executive.
>> And the rest of us should be scared to death of them.
>> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>>
>>
>>
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