Stultus est sicut stultus facit
sometimes I like to think I'm fairly well-read, fairly knowledgeable. I mean, I know the difference between platelets and Plato; between hobs, Hobbes, hobos and Hobsbawm. I can pronounce Descartes and Goethe and not sound like a moron. but I'm always conscious of knowledge frontiers, i.e. there are none. I haven't read everything. also, I've come to terms with the fact that there are some things I will never ever understand. in fact, here's a list.
1. Why people in Hollywood bother getting married
Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd (8 months), Jennifer Lopez and Ojani Noa (13 months), Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (3 years), Britney Spears and Jason Alexander (48 HOURS), Billy Bob Thornton and [everyone, including Angelina Jolie], Nicholas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley (107 days), Drew Barrymore and Tom Green (1 year), Mariah Carey and [all her producers], Shannon Doherty and Ashley Hamilton (5 months), etc, etc, etc. I would propose that marriage in Hollywood should operate on a five-year license renewal system, but evidently, five years is optimistic.
although really, how little I care: I had to actually google "celebrity divorces" to find names to put on this list, and then google all of them to check that they hadn't remarried their ex-spouses, or died, or something.
2. Fake tans
You know which ones I'm talking about. It's winter, and there are orange women walking about town.
3. Leggings under skirts
I will never understand how anyone really, truly believes this is fashionable. I mean, consider what being seen in public in this ensemble requires: 1) buying a dress, 2) buying leggings that vaguely match, 3) putting them on together, 4) scrutinizing oneself in the mirror, 5) thinking, hot damn, I look good, 6) leaving the house. I have trouble from about #3 onwards.
4. Trousers under skirts
ditto.
5. Why people smoke
I mean, surely not to make their lungs look like this.
6. Tongue piercings
not hot:
not hot:
I mean, but, WHY?
7. Jackass (Movie/TV show)
the only redeeming factor is that with every stupid thing they do to themselves, they increase the probability that they will moron themselves out of the human race, and preserve our gene pool.
8. In the knowledge that human stupidity, like knowledge, seems utterly boundless, why I started this list in the first place.