Well, here I am again during another Co-op board meeting and witnessing a HUGE argument over who got the financial report and who didn’t. Everyone is yelling at each other because there are seven board members, and only six got a report but all the reports are gone….someone (gasp) got two. I got one the other day—who knows if I have two...and I told them as much. I’m one of three people that need to read it…everyone else just chucks it.

Why am I still doing this? I mean, in all honesty I am only pitching in because I care about my home—not because I know anything about finances and what not. I’m sitting here typing away because I don’t like dealing with ignorance. If people are going to be ignorant then let them—I just have a problem when ignorance evolves.

So at what point do these arguing people collide with reality? We have an accountant who takes care of all the books. We have a lawyer who takes care of our legal concerns. The only thing we do is sign off on some things because the management company handles most of the stuff.

Now they’re arguing about the proper protocol for calling in a report to the office. You can’t just call in the report to the Management office you know…you have to write it in. Especially on repeat-offenders because what’s the good of the report? We need a paper trail, yadda yadda yadda.

Where was I? Oh yeah, the Evolution of Ignorance which is called Idiocy. I have a problem with idiocy too especially with things that, in the greater scheme of things, don’t matter. I’m often making fun of stuff like this especially with how serious they take these things (like the whole speaking with steepled fingers bit…that’s just ridiculous).

Thing is, this kind of stuff pervades society. You go to work or school and it’s the same thing. People who you don’t know and who don’t know you assigning greater importance to material than it should have. Then the whole flipping out about banal stuff like this just underscores that whole hamster mentality. Run, drink, eat and run some more. Then looking at the other hamsters and saying “What the heck is wrong with you? Run! Come on!” If you don’t run there’s something wrong with you—heck some of us Christian folk might even like to attach verses to this mentality to justify it.

Here’s where it gets worse…when Idiocy progresses. Huge personal problem: I have a low threshold for stupidity. I can deal with ignorance just fine—just ignore it if a person persists in it. I’ve had people prattle on about how they can use the menu items on their computer for everything. I’ll sit on their box when they ask me how I do something, and start using my keyboard shortcuts. They’ll ask me what I’m doing and I’ll tell them. Then when the person says “I think going to the menu is just easier” I shrug. Fine. Stay there.

I’ve taken the same approach with cars, computers and Christianity. Ignorance can remain if the person persists in it. Idiocy can remain as well as long as it doesn’t harm anyone. My problem is that when Idiocy spills over into reality and starts causing an impact to others around it, it evolves into Stupidity, which I have to point out because this can prove potentially dangerous.

Example: someone who doesn’t know how to drive correcting my driving with a constant unending commentary. Fine, they don’t know how to drive. They’re Ignorant. The same person gets a drivers license and they’re a poor driver and they persist in verbally correcting my driving—fine, the person is an Idiot. Lastly, this person starts training other non-drivers with their poor driving putting people behind the wheel that shouldn’t be there—the person is now Stupid and needs to be stopped before something worse happens.

Let me borrow something, I hope you don’t mind if I play with it for my own purposes: avoid Ignorance for Ignorance when it beareth fruit gives birth to Idiocy and Idiocy when it has conceived bringeth forth Stupidity. And when Stupidity has ran its course much will lay wasted.

So as I see these folk arguing I can see that Ignorance can be Ignored, Idiocy can be Cured but you can choose to Ignore it, but Stupidity runs rampant unless you do something. So far these folk are at the Idiocy level. I’ll just stay quiet. 7:15 PM. This is going to be a long meeting.

Update: The meeting ended at 10:01 PM.

-r-

Hope your pet peeve isn't when people capitalize letters they shouldn't giving the words more importance than they should have.  :)

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