Saturday, September 22, 2007
Elite stupidity
I am baffled about the M.I.T. woman who strapped a bomb - or a pretend bomb, depending on whom you believe - to herself and went to Logan Airport. Is she insane or what? Even pre-9/11, it would have been ridiculous. Post-9/11, it's a new word that means ridiculous-to-the-third-or-fourth-power. Logan was the airport of departure for 9/11 airplanes, for one thing (to its eternal regret, I'm sure). And what would the point be of such a stunt? I might be able to get a little bit around it if she wanted to test whether security caught on, but she's way too elite-snotty for that. No, she just wanted to do it. Whatever that means. I've always thought M.I.T. was the best of the best, a place where rationality and cleverness nurtured each other. It never occurred to me that stupidity might enter that equation.

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Blogger Barb the Evil Genius — at 1:25 PM, September 23, 2007:
Now she gets to play victimized martyr, which was probably her point all along.
 

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Blogger ligneus — at 9:44 PM, September 23, 2007:
Never underestimate the stupidity of intellectuals. As Orwell said, [from memory] There is nothing so stupid that an intellectual hasn't said it. A truck driver or a bar maid would have more common sense.
 

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Blogger Tat — at 10:34 AM, September 24, 2007:
We've discussed possible explanations here.
 

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