When Critical Thinking Fails

Comrade X never ceases to be amazed at the complete dearth of critical thinking skills in this world. He offers the ill-thought-out logic of the sign above. Surely the person who wrote it, even if completely overwhelmed with anti-capitalist, anti-oil-company fervor, could see the complete illogic of the boast (and why is it that the stupidest among us actually DO boast of their stupidity? One is reminded of the Dittoheads who would blindly repeat utterly ridiculous, racist, homophobic, anti-rational, anti-liberal [oftentimes even anti-conservative!], anti-humanist phrases uttered by the incomparable -- no, that's not true, there are many to compare to him -- Rush Limbaugh, that drug-addled collapsed black hole of complete idiocy. Where is he now, I wonder?)? Are these the people we want in Our Revolution? I think not. And lest you think this is an isolated incident, Comrade X offers this from Irritable Blog Syndrome itself, a response to our post in horror of the Friskies cat food commercial (v. "Hey Purina! Cats Don't Take Psychedelic Drugs!" 3/18/10):

"Anonymous said...

Wow. You're an idiot. You spent how much time deconstructing a 30 second commercial? Example #2,987,483 why the blogosphere is filled with idiots. I only clicked on this link because I was trying to find out who the singer is because she sounded a lot like Kim Deal."

Now, Comrade X is certainly a proponent of free speech, and did not delete this comment from the blog, but he wants here to point out the many ways in which this post has failed in terms of critical thinking and added to Comrade X's despair for the sorry state of human rational capacity, not to mention writing skills:

1. This person cannot recognize the difference between humor and what he (for the sake of pronoun simplicity, Comrade X will continue to refer to this fuckwit as a male) mistakes as a serious attempt at "deconstruction," which of course this person doesn't even understand because:

2. Deconstruction is an attempt to point out the ways in which texts fail to make meaning, not the ways in which the meaning of texts is completely ludicrous. But this guy wouldn't know that because:

3. He is an example of the absolute worst aspect of what he refers to as the "blogosphere": the anonymous flame. He complains that we complained about a commercial, and takes umbrage at the very act of complaining while himself committing that very act. Oh, and did I mention that he's an idiot because:

4. He used the term "blogosphere," as if the vast ethereal activity of the internet had shape, form, solidity, and material existence. It is not a sphere. That should not even be said in an attempt to make a metaphor, because the use of metaphor is only useful in an attempt to better explain something, and the use of "blogosphere" not only does nothing to better explain the complicated nature of the internet online environment (even that fails as a metaphor -- we have yet to come up with a good way to describe this phenomenon), but actually confuses it, as if the "blogosphere" were a coherent and united unit of individual parts, as opposed to millions of individuals all acting separately and at times in unison to achieve a multitude of tasks in an unstructured and non-ruled manner. So:

5. HE is actually example #2,987,483 of "why the blogosphere is filled with idiots" (I have corrected the syntax here). Can people not see their own stupidity? As I have been trying to point out: no. Even Comrade X doesn't see his own stupidity. I am certainly not immune. But at least I TRY, unlike this individual. And why the specific number? Is that an attempt at humor, or did he actually count all the "ways in which" etc.? And if it was humor, then that indicates that this person has a sense of one, but then goes on to completely disabuse us of that notion by:

6. Being OBVIOUSLY a "friend" and follower of a website that is merely a clearing-house for old Purina cat food commercials, which this person has an unhealthy interest in, even going so far as to:

7. Wonder about who sang the stupid song. Really? You CARE about that? REALLY? What the fuck is WRONG with you!? Freak.

AND THEN the idiot goes on to tell me WHY he clicked on the link, AS IF I FUCKING CARE after he just told me I was an idiot! What the fuck? Like I need to know WHY he was there? Or what his stupid interests are? (Who the fuck is Kim Deal anyway?) WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THE WORLD GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THEM? Why are people so consumed with a sense of unearned self-importance? Comrade X is under no such delusion. He recognizes his unimportance in the vast scale of things, even in the small scale of things, and would certainly never write someone to tell them they were an idiot (which in itself seems to be THE EXACT THING this person claims is wrong with Comrade X: that he wastes time on unimportant matters, like, you know, writing people to tell them that they are idiots), and even if I did, I would NOT bother to tell them WHY I was looking at their particular piece of idiocy in the first place.

KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOU! Confine your comments to the Friskies cat food page, or perhaps the Kim Deal fan site, you pathetic twit, you fucking Friskies Dittohead.

Is the Revolution here yet? Comrade X grows increasingly impatient!