{"id":3046,"date":"2009-08-25T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2009-08-25T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T10:00:08","slug":"looking-for-a-class-in-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/looking-for-a-class-in-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Class in Stupidity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/viva-stupidity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3048\" title=\"viva-stupidity\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/viva-stupidity-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"viva-stupidity\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/viva-stupidity.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/viva-stupidity.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re in luck.&nbsp;\u00a0 The Occidental College Course Catalog for 2008\/2009 offers a course in <a href=\"http:\/\/departments.oxy.edu\/registrar\/catalog\/ctsj.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stupidity<\/a>. Here is the description:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stupidity is neither  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tignorance nor  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\torganicity, but rather,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta corollary of knowing  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand an element of  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnormalcy, the double of  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintelligence rather than  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tits opposite. It is an  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tartifact of our nature  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas finite beings and one  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the most powerful  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdeterminants of human  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdestiny. Stupidity is  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talways the name of the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOther, and it is the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsign of the feminine.  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis course in Critical  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPsychology follows the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork of Friedrich  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNietzsche, Gilles  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeleuze, and most  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trecently, Avital Ronell,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin a philosophical  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texamination of those  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toperations and  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttechnologies that we  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconduct in order to  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trender ourselves  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuncomprehending.  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStupidity, which has  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeen evicted from the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tphilosophical premises  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand dumbed down by  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpsychometric psychology,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thas returned in the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpostmodern discourse  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst Nation, Self,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Truth and makes  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\titself felt in political  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlife ranging from the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpresidency to Beevis and  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tButthead. This course  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texamines stupidity. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you still conscious? What do they mean, &#8220;it&#8217;s a sign of the feminine?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Um excuse me, I disagree. Not that I even know what they&#8217;re trying to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re in luck.&nbsp;\u00a0 The Occidental College Course Catalog for 2008\/2009 offers a course in Stupidity. Here is the description: Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/looking-for-a-class-in-stupidity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,694,210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-N8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}