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Despite the flaws in execution, this book’s intent is something that academia needs. Intelligence may be something of a cult, but stupidity only receives cursory treatment. IQ tests, Mensa societies and SAT scores all measure intelligence, but stupidity remains the butt of crude humour and careless thought. Precisely because the state of being dumb has no analogue to being smart, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid provides valuable insight into a subject that eludes, but intrigues...
...bunch of four-foot tall humanoids standing around in snowsuits twelve months a year is not an uncommon sight where I live, and, surprisingly enough, neither are fat children who can't stop cursing. But that, I suppose, was never the root of South Park’s humour. It was those bi-visaged flatulent Canadian television stars, Terrence and Phillip, who destroyed the moral fibre of South Park, thus igniting the war against the neighbours to the north and spurring the immortal war ballad, “Blame Canada.” Like I said, I just didn?...
...such humour is not offensive to any Canadian. In fact, it’s a relief that when the average American laughs at Canada, he’s only laughing at his own ignorance. I fear that the Canadian side of the enmity is far more insidious. See, we’re really laughing...
...However, I have come to realize that our sense of humour is a hypocritical one. After growing up as a tried-and-true Americanthrope, then residing for two years in the country I was raised to laugh at, and then returning home to a country at the mercy of a beer commercial, it is easier to gain a little more perspective. While it’s not nice to laugh at the unfamiliar, it’s also not nice to laugh at the ignorant. And, now that I know better, I’ve realized that Canadians know very...
...also indulged in some self-depracating humour, describing his difficulty in trying to compose a speech that was even more “banal” and “cliched” than last year’s address...