I'm not that fond of stupid people. They get on my nerves because some of them actually have plenty of brains, but don't know how to use them. They are only just smart enough to comprehend a problem's existence, but never quite able to really understand it. Thus, when trying to address said problem, they never quite get it right. The result is the world as we see it, filled with a large sophmoronic portion of people who act amazing like Dilbert's boss. The weird thing is that most people can see right off that Dilbert's boss is an idiot, but can't comprehend the same thing in their own actions.

There are less of those people here at MIT than at other places (The unfortunate exception here is the MIT administration; they're normal people, not smart people). "MIT people" don't act like the dipshits that normal people do. That's why we're often viewed as socially inept, or lacking common sense; we have trouble the understanding the meaningless drivel of work-a-day society. At least, I have trouble with it. The point is that there are so many people who almost get it right, but screw it up in the end. Moreover, since its so easy for humans (even smart ones) to convince themselves of falsehoods, normal people often believe that they're doing the right thing.

That's partly what's happening with the MIT administrators. They realize we're smart, but they don't realize exactly what that means, since they've never been smart people themselves. Thus they try to make all these sweeping social policy decisions, which would only make marginal sense (as much as any government's sweeping social policies ever make) for a population of normal people, but make zero sense for a population of entirely smart people. See, to them "smart" is just a word which labels our abilities. They don't realize that we function in a fundamentally different way from them.

Anyway, the point is that stupid people really suck. They suck in the same way that Starbucks Coffee, pop music, micromanagment, Keanu Reeves, and Communism suck. Have you learned anything about me yet?

I can be somewhat biased when it comes to things I care about, so here's an honest, balanced, and accurate article about MIT's problems.