I hate being in public spaces with stupid people. Most of the time when I hear people saying moronic things, I want to either slap them across the face or yell at them and tell them never to speak again. But alas, I am too nice or at least timid to do or say such things, so I just sit there and get angrier and occasionally direct angry faces in the stupid person’s direction. I’ve been told my stare has powerful qualities, but most of the time the stupid people are too busy spouting off idiocy to notice.
Evangelical Institution has masses and masses of stupid people. I was on the campus-run bus line today and overheard two horrible conversations. One was from a rather fat and ugly guy in glasses with a beard who, as I overheard him saying in a very loud, stupid voice, is a Communications major. He was talking about how he wants to write a book by the “Common Man.” According to him, his book would not even be original: he would just take a book by an “educated, learned” person and reinterpret it so that the “Common Man” would understand. It would be his very own interpretation and he apparently doesn’t care if he is right or if no one agrees with him. Who needs those educated people, right? They’re just pompous windbags (much like this stupid person who was speaking) with nothing to say to the common folk. Why not take some Derrida and make it his own?
The worst thing about the asinine conversations of stupid people is that they always think they need to talk as loud as they possibly can so that everyone in the room/bus/store can hear their brilliance and dedication to higher thought. I swear that the volume is directly proportionate to the stupidity of the speaker. You could even chart a z-line which would indicate the level of religiousity of the speaker. Most stupid people at Evangelical Institution are some kind of major which involves religion. Bonus points for being in seminary or other graduate institution related to religion. I would rate the above stupid person among the highest echelons of stupidity based on his volume and the fact that he is applying to Evangelical Institution’s seminary if “nothing else works out.”
Now I must listen to possibly the most stupid professor who was ever given a doctorate degree.
