The Voice of Reason-A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment by Chael Sonnen

Author:Chael Sonnen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Humour, Biography
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Published: 2012-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Occupy And The Turkey Corollary

hen I was in college, I studied sociology, which is a sophisticated way of saying I spent five years watching how people become more idiotic as they band together.

I like to refer to this as the “turkey corollary”: as a group grows larger and larger, the group’s average IQ is only as high as the dumbest lump of nerves in the bunch. You could have a roomful of Nobel Prize winners, Mensa members, and ten flawless clones of me, but the moment a halfwit walks in, our collective powers are diminished by the bowl of brain pudding that is violently allergic to reason and common sense. Yes, stupidity is contagious.

A fine contemporary example of the turkey corollary at work is the Occupy movement. Don’t get me wrong, I think people should be brave enough to speak up when they see injustice in the world. I just don’t think they should follow the loudest voices (which are usually the dumbest) into some kind of pretend version of homelessness that disturbs honest people’s lives. I am sure that there are some bright people somewhere among the Occupy activists, probably hidden by drum circles and the “concerned” parent dragging her five-year-old child into the opium tent for a “learning experience,” but their critical thinking has been sucked into the black hole of embarrassing incompetence, hacky sacks, and acid trips dominating the movement.

The Occupy movement interests me on an intellectual level. Thousands of unhappy people who wanted something but couldn’t quite articulate it banded together to create a big urban camping party and yelled, hoping that someone in the “one percent” would notice, read their minds, and then give them what they wanted in a gift-wrapped package without any political consequences whatsoever. Why did I ever run for office when there are so many much more brilliant analytical minds in the world? I’ll tell you why, because I know that if I want the government to listen to me, I have to speak like an economist. I can’t just, like, you know, man, I can’t just think about how the world is, like, so messed up and stuff. I have to put my thoughts into a coherent message, approach the appropriate agency with my thoughts, and explain why my needs and the government’s needs are compatible.

It has never been quite clear what the movement wants. Apparently, it’s equality, but no one has offered any suggestions for how to accomplish that. People wanted their work to matter, so they quit actually going to work so they could park their butts in a public place. They wanted to create more jobs, and so they railed against companies that employed thousands of people. They wanted redistribution of wealth, but to no reasonable ends. Worst of all, they didn’t bother to think through how they expected these demands to be met because they were more concerned with having other people get the job done for them. They wanted change, but a poem about a tree is not a credible voice, nor is an acoustic-guitar song about peace.

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