I spent the day yesterday with three of my immediate beloved family members. We had a lot to talk about (I’m not sure why; maybe you can figure it out).<\/p>\n
At some point up came the subject of how certain people, educated<\/em> people, could vote one particular way. (Short answer: their wallets, i.e., narrow-minded smug selfishness.)<\/p>\n That topic traveled naturally toward obscenely rich people who’d gotten obscenely rich from corporate profits. Which caused me to remark how stupid these people have been when they pompously declaim on a subject of which they are demonstrably ignorant.<\/p>\n We all agreed the problem was obscenely rich people who’d gotten rich because of having knowledge in one limited, if profitable, area, but who, once rich, had decided their wealth and possessions meant they actually knew everything<\/em> about everything<\/em>. They sit on their piles of money and orate as if universally wise.<\/p>\n What always surprises me is not only do they say<\/em> stupid things, they seems not to realize how stupid they sound<\/em> when they publicly voice idiocies. Why would anyone so shame himself?<\/p>\n I’ve had long experience working for very rich people so I have a loose answer: they use their money to pad themselves from criticism. Without listening to criticism, they can’t learn anything.<\/p>\n So I chuckled at this headline in the Times today about maybe one of the loudest dopey “geniuses” of all: Elon Musk.<\/a><\/p>\n You know, the genius who has volunteered his sperm to populate Mars.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent the day yesterday with three of my immediate beloved family members. We had a lot to talk about (I’m not sure why; maybe you can figure it out). At some point up came the subject of how certain … Continue reading