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Aug. 9, 2022 - Lionel Nation
15:05
How America Is Plummeting Into Vapidity

It's a very scary thing certainty. And I'm certain we are facing a horror that is inconceivable lest we refuse to change collision course.

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I'm able to say right now, unequivocally, that America, and I can only pretty much stick with America here, the U.S., I can't really speak about elsewhere, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, but America.
Is hitting new flavors and new textures and new iterations of stupid that I never even thought possible.
I mean, it's like the umami of vapidity, where, you know, stupid used to be kind of like sweet, savory, whatever, but now there are levels and textures of stupidity mixed with incuriosity, ignorance.
Then, a kind of a psych-med added dullness, a vapidity, a kind of an indolence, this torpor, this concretized, mentally oseous, kind of created by...
Perhaps years now of inhaling your own exhale in this mask that you wear in a car by yourself because somehow you're going to die because of something.
This idiocy, this stupidity, this absolute doltish, dumbass I mean, the flavors, the textures, the colors, the subtleties, the hues, the, oh my God, the spectra, the strata of stupid.
That's what we're about right now.
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I admit it.
For a long time, I was a little bit careful not to call people stupid.
Sometimes people were...
They couldn't help things.
And we'll just leave it at that.
You know, we don't want to ever make fun of somebody who...
Has a difficult time by virtue of something biomechanical or psychoneuronal or cognitive or neurological or whatever.
Especially Joe Biden, who, let's face it, is gone.
The man who walks around telling me who ordered the veal cutlet, but I digress.
But we've seen something now, and I've seen something that is so...
I never thought this was possible.
So many layers.
Certain things are absolute.
But for example, pregnant.
I know, even despite Roe and Casey, there is a thing.
You're pregnant.
Not you're really pregnant.
You're somewhat pregnant.
And dead.
You're dead.
Not somewhat dead.
Not kind of dead.
You're dead.
Stupid.
Different.
Different.
Layers, colors, hues, flavors.
Ignorant.
Now, ignorant isn't stupid.
I'm ignorant in French.
Because I don't speak French.
I'm not stupid.
And I could learn French, but I don't.
So, I'm ignorant.
Okay.
I don't need to speak French.
Now, if I move to France, move to Paris, let's see.
And I, after six years, refused to learn the language.
I don't think they would have that, but if I did, then I would move from ignorant into stupid.
And throw in stubborn.
Pig-headed and stupid.
Because we've left the ignorant stage.
Ignorance almost will give you a pass.
But you cannot remain ignorant over years.
You can't use that term anymore.
No, no, you're stupid or you're...
Something.
There's something wrong with you.
You're demented.
And then we get into something else where people cannot think correctly.
They can't follow an argument.
They don't have any critical thinking skills.
They don't know, as we used to in law school refer to the IRAC rule.
I-R-A-C.
Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion.
You know, what's the issue?
What are we talking about?
How many times have you argued with somebody?
Who's arguing about something else?
It's like, that's not even the issue.
You're not even off.
We're arguing about the wrong thing.
That's not the issue.
It's issue analysis.
It's, okay, that's issue.
The rule.
What are we talking about?
Well, I think if you wear a mask...
Well, what's the rule regarding viral transmissibility?
I don't know.
Well, we've got a problem with that.
Then there's analysis.
You take the issue, you take the rule, you kind of blend them together, you kind of look at them.
And then there's a conclusion.
Then you follow this linear kind of logical sequencing, which makes so, so much sense.
It's perfect, isn't it?
It's perfect.
I love that.
Maybe it's the lawyer in me.
Maybe that's it.
We saw it all the time in Roe against Wade.
Well, this is illegal.
No.
No, that's not what Roe said.
In fact, Casey overruled Roe.
What?
No, it's true.
You're not.
You didn't read this, did you?
No.
Well, why are you talking about this?
I don't know.
Because you're stupid.
Because you're stubborn and you're pig-headed.
And you're reading headlines.
And you just don't know.
I don't think you're in climate change.
Can you define climate change?
What is the issue?
I don't know.
Okay, fine.
There we go.
See?
See how this works?
You see how this goes?
And then we have this thing.
This device.
The phone.
This.
This is the library at Alexandria.
This is everything.
Now at home, what my job is, for the most part, is I will.
My job is to see who's alive.
When did they die?
Is she alive?
Where did Mrs. Howell die?
Hang on, honey.
Let me check.
That's my thing.
I've got...
The answers are right here.
Even that stupid Wikipedia, it'll give you basic answers, not the truth necessarily, but it'll give you kind of, you know, like, what's the capital of whatever.
You think anybody looks at that?
No.
You think anybody cares to review maybe all of it?
No.
You know how many great...
I saw...
This morning I was curious how to descale a coffee pot.
All of a sudden this light goes on.
You need to descale.
I happen to have my tablet open.
I looked at YouTube under descaling.
It's like 9,000 videos on descaling.
Anything you need, you can find out.
Anything from, just name it.
To yourself surgery, to how do you pronounce this?
There's no interest in getting the answer.
There's no interest in, I can't do it.
No, no, go ahead.
What's that word you use?
Look it up.
No!
Look it up.
I don't look it.
No, try it.
Just hit the dictionary.
No!
I can't do this.
I don't look up things.
I don't know what the Seventh Amendment is.
I don't look up things.
I don't.
I don't research.
I don't care.
I don't read.
I don't.
I just react.
I sit back.
Throw it at me.
Hit me with this information.
Hit me with that which I have to know.
One of the reasons why, believe it or not, this is so interesting, One of the reasons why kids are not able to read as well or as they should is because of social media instruments and devices.
Things are thrown at them, so they don't have to learn how to track something.
When we were kids, inadvertently, whether it was meant to be good or not, we would follow, we would play.
Target practice.
We would throw a ball.
By the way, interesting too, being able to hold a ball, throw a ball, being able to touch something, grab something, feel something.
Notice the sphericality to this.
You know, all of that.
Placement, parietal lobe stuff.
We were able to hold pencils.
And now, did you ever see people today, can I write that?
I don't know how to write it.
What are you doing?
What, did you break your fingers?
No.
We even had the Palmer method.
Remember when you were a kid?
No, you don't.
You probably don't.
But we don't look up.
And here's the thing, too.
This, I find, part of this incredible paradox.
We write constantly.
Well, we don't really write.
It's not prose or poetry or whatever.
But we're always, we're always.
We write notes and emails more today than our parents ever did.
They wrote, for the most part, maybe on a birthday card, maybe on a...
Shopping list.
But people really, unless it was your job and you're making notes, but everybody's like this, doing this, right?
They're always writing.
So don't you think their skill would be better?
Don't you think that if you all of a sudden, if I said, here, just run a few feet today, and then the next day, run a little more.
Hey, that wasn't that bad.
Next thing you know, you're running a mile.
You can't help but improve if you do.
A particular introductory behavior first, right?
Okay.
You would think that because of all the writing that we do, even with thumbs, you would think that we would be able to write.
We can't.
We can't write anything.
We can't put words in front of another word.
We can't explain a thought.
Remember the old story was, explain how to play an accordion without using your hands.
You can't do it.
So we can't write.
We don't know anything.
And we can't write even though we write every day.
We don't know anything even though we have this incredible reference library in our pocket.
Library.
Or library as George W. Bush was.
And we're stupid!
Not only that, it's encouraged.
Not only is it not the subject of finger-pointing and laughing and derision, it's expected.
And if you're from Gen Z or some Gen, whatever this Gen is, forget it.
You don't even have to make noises.
You don't have to make eye contact.
You don't have to shake hands.
You don't have to sign a name.
You don't even have to show up.
You're going to have anxiety.
You can stay at home with your CBD and your service ferret and not go out because you're anxious and you have anxiety and you're weak and you're strange and that's the way that is.
We are so gone.
We are so bereft of value.
We are so intellectually Spiritually, emotionally concretized and defunct and derailed and deplatformed and discombobulated.
We are at the nadir.
We are at rock bottom.
Oh my, how we're stupid.
We have hit a level of stupid that, I'm telling you, it's off the charts.
Off the charts, off the rails, and off the chains.
Now, my dear friend, I'd ask you what you think about this.
I'd love for you to comment, but it involves, for the most part, this thing called English and a language and something that even kind of rudimentarily resembles a sentence structure.
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