Yes and no. Not that knowledge of that planet outside of a vocational application is anything but trivia. But I think what characterizes a Dark Age isn't just the amount of knowledge people posses. We live in an age of profound ignorance coupled with a supreme confidence in ourselves.
That's the true folly. Maybe an 11th century peasant didn't have any celestial knowledge but do you think you could convince him that the more debt a nation was in the better off it was? Do you think you could convince him that if he chopped off his dick and put on a straw wig that he would be happier?
Fuck off with that shit. You could convince an 11th century peasant to remain a peasant, thats worse than anything youve described about modern society. The past was stupid.
how would you measure that? first you would need to explain to them how debt functions, and depending where you are you'd have to explain how currency works. and then probably how countries work. then you would need to explain how countries around the world work, because the whole discussion is scaled up so much. basically you would need to spend years teaching them everything we know now, and then try and get an opinion out of them.
Fuck off with that shit. You could convince an 11th century peasant to remain a peasant, thats worse than anything youve described about modern society. The past was stupid.
People became peasants because the alternative was living outside of a lords protection, only to be raped and killed by wandering migratory tribes of Goths and Huns, you malignant piece of shit.
does paul krugman have a more profound argument for his economic position than i would suggesting an addict to get an eternal supply of their vice?
i'm genuinely interested, tell me how he does?
I would wager that paul krugman (right or wrong) has more profound arguments for his positions than your cute analogy. Haven't seen your CV. Did you just find ronpaul.com?
I'm just a regular old joe here. If the gubmint done do borrow too much money and go into debt then it'll be like the titanic all over again, and the government will go bankrupt. Every post office will be a foreclosure sign cuz Ron paul and Alex Jones told me about Austrian economics.
I remember once in around Grade 5 I had a furious argument with a pretty girl over which is the hottest planet, Venus or Mercury. I explained the greenhouse effect to her to no avail. It was then I realized that women are inherently stupid and I will forever be lonely.
in grade 3 i had to convince a girl that africa wasn't another planet. she had been corrected before when she called africa a country, then someone told her that it was a continent. she thought that continent was another word for planet. she thought they came here on spaceships.
I was listening to this with my face in my hands. I think the worst (for me) is when Jimmy announces that he doesn't believe that nothing can travel faster than light, and says he's going to tell Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Michio Kaku next time. Has he ever brought it up with them?
Later this morning Jim said he didn't fuck with wireless headphones paired with his phone, and only used wired, because of the radiation. Well, shithead, the wifi and mobile radios don't seem to bother you. Do you think there's more energy sending a signal to the headphones two feet from the phone, or to a wifi access point possibly a hundred feet away, or to a cell tower maybe a half mile away?
Nothing beats when Jim Norton was speculating on the chronology for Dinosaurs and estimated their disappearance to be around a million years ago. Or when Opie was trying to figure out evolution and seemed to be of the understanding that multiple members of a species simultaneously evolve into new species for no real apparent reason. I'll paraphrase but his statement was something like, "So uhh they try to say the Cumia family and Hughes family just went from Ape to Human and suddenly evolved? That's soo trippy maaaaannn." Idiot doesn't understand genetic bottlenecking and how there wouldn't be a "cumia" family 250,000 years ago.
Yes and no. Not that knowledge of that planet outside of a vocational application is anything but trivia. But I think what characterizes a Dark Age isn't just the amount of knowledge people posses. We live in an age of profound ignorance coupled with a supreme confidence in ourselves.
That's the true folly. Maybe an 11th century peasant didn't have any celestial knowledge but do you think you could convince him that the more debt a nation was in the better off it was? Do you think you could convince him that if he chopped off his dick and put on a straw wig that he would be happier?
how would you measure that? first you would need to explain to them how debt functions, and depending where you are you'd have to explain how currency works. and then probably how countries work. then you would need to explain how countries around the world work, because the whole discussion is scaled up so much. basically you would need to spend years teaching them everything we know now, and then try and get an opinion out of them.
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n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
I mean, we are in a Dark Age right? People are this fucking stupid?
n/a GullibleGilbert 2017-02-23
So you think people on average had better knowledge about Mars in the past?
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
Yes and no. Not that knowledge of that planet outside of a vocational application is anything but trivia. But I think what characterizes a Dark Age isn't just the amount of knowledge people posses. We live in an age of profound ignorance coupled with a supreme confidence in ourselves.
That's the true folly. Maybe an 11th century peasant didn't have any celestial knowledge but do you think you could convince him that the more debt a nation was in the better off it was? Do you think you could convince him that if he chopped off his dick and put on a straw wig that he would be happier?
Which age was wiser, then?
n/a JohnQNo1 2017-02-23
Fuck off with that shit. You could convince an 11th century peasant to remain a peasant, thats worse than anything youve described about modern society. The past was stupid.
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
Yeah because it's not like anyone living today can be convinced to know their place in society. It was abolished in the 60's, right friend?
n/a TriangleDimes 2017-02-23
what the fuck are you even trying to say, that 11th century peasants were smarter than us?
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
Wiser.
n/a TriangleDimes 2017-02-23
how would you measure that? first you would need to explain to them how debt functions, and depending where you are you'd have to explain how currency works. and then probably how countries work. then you would need to explain how countries around the world work, because the whole discussion is scaled up so much. basically you would need to spend years teaching them everything we know now, and then try and get an opinion out of them.
n/a FlashVirus 2017-02-23
I don't that's a very fair portrayal of peasants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbl16vTovU
n/a Jack_Decker_CIA 2017-02-23
People became peasants because the alternative was living outside of a lords protection, only to be raped and killed by wandering migratory tribes of Goths and Huns, you malignant piece of shit.
n/a GullibleGilbert 2017-02-23
exactly. Some people even think their superficial knowledge on economics entitles them to have an opinion on things like the national debt
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
does paul krugman have a more profound argument for his economic position than i would suggesting an addict to get an eternal supply of their vice?
i'm genuinely interested, tell me how he does?
n/a GullibleGilbert 2017-02-23
They don't think it be like it is, but it do!
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
so you can't. solid quote though. it's old but still kind of funny.
n/a DSMProper 2017-02-23
I would wager that paul krugman (right or wrong) has more profound arguments for his positions than your cute analogy. Haven't seen your CV. Did you just find ronpaul.com?
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
that was funny.
n/a FlashVirus 2017-02-23
I'm just a regular old joe here. If the gubmint done do borrow too much money and go into debt then it'll be like the titanic all over again, and the government will go bankrupt. Every post office will be a foreclosure sign cuz Ron paul and Alex Jones told me about Austrian economics.
n/a goo-gobbler 2017-02-23
I remember once in around Grade 5 I had a furious argument with a pretty girl over which is the hottest planet, Venus or Mercury. I explained the greenhouse effect to her to no avail. It was then I realized that women are inherently stupid and I will forever be lonely.
n/a NinthReich 2017-02-23
in grade 3 i had to convince a girl that africa wasn't another planet. she had been corrected before when she called africa a country, then someone told her that it was a continent. she thought that continent was another word for planet. she thought they came here on spaceships.
n/a Thomas_Daly 2017-02-23
Last week I had to convince a girl in grade 3 to not tell her parents about what I made her do.
n/a NinthReich 2017-02-23
fuck off anth
n/a EskimoEscrow 2017-02-23
I know how you feel, I once had to convince myself that Africans were people.
n/a ElectricHellKnight 2017-02-23
And now she is a producer for the Alex Jones program.
n/a NinthReich 2017-02-23
Nah she wasn't jewish.
n/a Clean-Ween 2017-02-23
WE WUZ ASTRONAUTZ
n/a pj530i 2017-02-23
Well I just learned that venus is the hottest planet.
Have an upvote, brothaman
n/a lowend73 2017-02-23
He has pubes on the top of his head, right guys???
n/a UnwarrantedArrogance 2017-02-23
That would be adorable if he were 10 years younger and more attractive.
n/a I_want_Forbin 2017-02-23
ITS RUST YOU HALF BREED HALF WIT!!
n/a xaway3 2017-02-23
To be fair, the WWE doesn't cover much astronomy shit.
n/a kingship75 2017-02-23
You obviously forgot about Max Moon.
n/a strappingyoungladdie 2017-02-23
Val Venus
n/a lifeobenreilly 2017-02-23
Perry Saturn
n/a SolomonKull 2017-02-23
Stardust.
n/a I_Hate_Knickers 2017-02-23
Goldberg.
n/a kingship75 2017-02-23
Wait. What?
n/a JMueller2012 2017-02-23
Jewish
n/a JoeCumiaSr 2017-02-23
Hey little fella
n/a Come_Honor_Cheeks 2017-02-23
Wait wait, I got it, what about 'Pal Penis' or something, because you're gay and you love your Pals Penis
n/a doxxbrown 2017-02-23
Planet Stasiak
n/a assreaper 2017-02-23
he meant hot puerto rican
n/a dankfranklin 2017-02-23
Jesus Christ he's a moron.
n/a Dorjan 2017-02-23
Believing he wasn't joking is pretty dumb too...
n/a Wolosocu 2017-02-23
He also doesn't know the different between impotent and sterile.
n/a kevin_k 2017-02-23
I was listening to this with my face in my hands. I think the worst (for me) is when Jimmy announces that he doesn't believe that nothing can travel faster than light, and says he's going to tell Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Michio Kaku next time. Has he ever brought it up with them?
Later this morning Jim said he didn't fuck with wireless headphones paired with his phone, and only used wired, because of the radiation. Well, shithead, the wifi and mobile radios don't seem to bother you. Do you think there's more energy sending a signal to the headphones two feet from the phone, or to a wifi access point possibly a hundred feet away, or to a cell tower maybe a half mile away?
n/a dankfranklin 2017-02-23
There's probably more radiation in a banana than Jim's stupid headphones.
Then again, bananas are far too indulgent for James to snack on.
n/a Fart_Parfait 2017-02-23
He cemented his idiocy moments after the headphone statement by informing us that he doesn't even know how fucking SIM cards work
Jim is the truest form of pseudo intellectual.He's more concerned with appearing smart than actually being smart
n/a Pacman999 2017-02-23
So is anyone who uses the term pseudo intellectual. FYI
n/a Fart_Parfait 2017-02-23
I hope the weakest member of your family drowns in a pond FYI
n/a chip902 2017-02-23
DAYMMNNN THATS A GOOD PLANET
n/a SkepticSloth 2017-02-23
"The yellow one is the sun"
n/a glasswork 2017-02-23
Wait isn't Mars their engineer? What a dope
n/a bmfanboy 2017-02-23
I HAVE CANDY ON MY HEAD
n/a HologramChicken 2017-02-23
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away....."
Sam: "That's not in our universe, right?"
n/a packitchofsositch 2017-02-23
Obviously he got it confused with Mercury. He should have admitted it though instead of trying to say something pot talkish.
n/a MedicatedHead 2017-02-23
He begged his parents to buy him a faggot costume.
n/a throwawaymanthrows 2017-02-23
This man is a father.
n/a opi3dope 2017-02-23
Pretty sure he was joshin ya.
n/a radiospringy 2017-02-23
Damn, that's a hot planet!
n/a FlashVirus 2017-02-23
Nothing beats when Jim Norton was speculating on the chronology for Dinosaurs and estimated their disappearance to be around a million years ago. Or when Opie was trying to figure out evolution and seemed to be of the understanding that multiple members of a species simultaneously evolve into new species for no real apparent reason. I'll paraphrase but his statement was something like, "So uhh they try to say the Cumia family and Hughes family just went from Ape to Human and suddenly evolved? That's soo trippy maaaaannn." Idiot doesn't understand genetic bottlenecking and how there wouldn't be a "cumia" family 250,000 years ago.
n/a literalotherkin 2017-02-23
Yes and no. Not that knowledge of that planet outside of a vocational application is anything but trivia. But I think what characterizes a Dark Age isn't just the amount of knowledge people posses. We live in an age of profound ignorance coupled with a supreme confidence in ourselves.
That's the true folly. Maybe an 11th century peasant didn't have any celestial knowledge but do you think you could convince him that the more debt a nation was in the better off it was? Do you think you could convince him that if he chopped off his dick and put on a straw wig that he would be happier?
Which age was wiser, then?
n/a TriangleDimes 2017-02-23
how would you measure that? first you would need to explain to them how debt functions, and depending where you are you'd have to explain how currency works. and then probably how countries work. then you would need to explain how countries around the world work, because the whole discussion is scaled up so much. basically you would need to spend years teaching them everything we know now, and then try and get an opinion out of them.