The reason idiots get away with being idiots is that they’re more intelligent than the average person.

Over the years, people have said to me (as though I’ve committed an ideological crime), “You think most people are stupid!” Well, yeah, of course. I’d say ‘foolish’, but I’ll accept stupid if it means that. People are idiots. What do you want? Need evidence? Come on, turn on any media source. It doesn’t even have to be the news – just look at what people are doing for entertainment, or what they eat, or how they drive. People are idiots. Idiocy is the fastest growing commodity – if you can find a way to invest in it, you’ll get rich. That’s what Bernie Madoff did – it’s just smarter to find a legal way to invest in stupidity. The only reason I don’t is ethics and morality – I think it’s wrong to take advantage of people’s stupidity. Doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s there. And look carefully whenever the ‘common person’ is exalted and raised up; it is not a common person at all, but a lord of the common people. That applies to idiots, too. You see some guy who does something incredibly stupid on a news program, or in traffic? He may indeed be an idiot, but he only gets away with it, because he’s cleverer than the people providing the context for his idiocy – he’s a Lord of the idiots, but otherwise he’s not unique. What’s smarter, the bull that dashes out into traffic and gets hit by a car, or the cow that stands there watching and just going moo? At first glance, the cow didn’t do anything stupid. Yeah, the cow didn’t do anything – anything at all. Sharp as a tack, right? No, not standing out doesn’t make you a genius. Eventually, though, all the cows would have followed the bull out into traffic – it’s just the perspective of time.