I suppose that I have to admit that I am an avid reader. Not so much as my beloved bride, Lady Beth, but an avid reader none-the-less. When you notice that you too have at least a half dozen books &/or periodicals in your bathroom for a little ‘light reading’, then you may also claim the title.
One of my favorite ‘throne room readers’ is a book with the wonderful title of : DUH! The Stupid History of the Human Race, by Bob Fenster. (Published by Barnes & Noble Books of New York.) There is much truth between these pages along with little -to-no political slant. That in itself makes the book notable!
Over the last couple of years I have enjoyed this little book so much that I have decided to share a bit of same here. Particularly excerpts from the chapter titled “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Stupidity but Were Too Smart to Ask“. It is written in a Q&A format. This you will enjoy.
Let’s try this one1 first…
“Who’s dumber:primitive people or us?”
“Primitive people solved their problems. The solutions to the problems of civilized people only create more complex problems. We’re short-term thinkers in a world of long-term consequences.
“Primitive people were short-term thinkers too. But they lived in a short-term world.
“Find food and survive pretty much encompassed the mental requirements of the ancient nomads before they became attendants to the seed.
“When these Hunters, and their sidekicks the Gatherers, came upon a hill, they went around it. They went on with their lives.
“We see a hill: We clear cut it, strip-mine it, zone it, build a shopping mall on it. Later we moan about deforestation, soil erosion, air pollution, lousy shopping.
“Then we try to move on through the twelve-step process of recovering hilloholics.
“When primitive people got cold, they built a fire. When we get cold we build atomic power plants.
“Despite evidence to the contrary, we think we’re more intelligent than our more primitive ancestors. Still, the odds remain high that civilization’s only lasting achievement will be the destruction of civilization.”
See what I mean? Truth about us, the modern human race, in the raw. Seriously consider looking up this book the next time you are near a Barnes & Noble bookstore. If you are even just a little better that the majority of the ’sheeple’ our there you will get a lot from this wee volume.
Bull, out. 
- Page #214.↩
