Idiots: people who are only self-interested. Who have no conception of the public good or shared values or common wealth.

Umair Haque has done it again. He’s written another Epic, Awesome, Blog Post titled: The Year of the Idiot, in which he succinctly calls an ace an ace. I consider the paragraph below to be the piece de resistance of the whole essay in terms of pin pointing the SHAME AND BANE of the American people:

What on earth? You begin to see what I mean by “idiots.” The Greeks, who coined the term, meant it in a certain way: people who are only self-interested. Who have no conception of the public good or shared values or common wealth. The Greeks believed they were the most dangerous people of all, idiots, because enough of them in a society, and soon enough, any semblance of democracy would cease. People have to be more than idiots to make a functioning society: they have to care about, be considerate of, others, too, not just go for walks in the park without masks in the middle of a surging pandemic whose death toll is already astronomical. People that would have made the Greeks laugh, cry, and say: “Now that’s what we mean by idiots.”

We work with and live among “idiots”. They’re everywhere. There’s no escaping them, and Haque says as much in his article.