This documentary about stupidity tells us the history of the word
“moron”, the difference between stupid, moron, smart, intelligent,
genius and questions the regular practice of classifying peoples
intelligence through standardized IQ tests. Of course also Mr. Bush is
examined in this report. A well educated guy who, nevertheless, acts
in a completely dumb way – or at least wants us to believe so.
Albert Einstein said:
“Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity.
And I am not sure about the former.”
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November 30, 2010 at 12:58 am | GuerillaOntology
This documentary is pretty, well, stupid.
Not only do they completely fail to define stupidity, or quantify it, or demonstrate what it is.
Just a bunch of insecure intellectuals, relating their opinions, about a subject that they have completely failed to understand.
One big old facepalm of a documentary.
November 30, 2010 at 6:46 am | A
Guerilla is not as you say. As you saw only 7,8 books were wrriten about stupidy and it can’t be measured or stuff like that. I don’t know if you watched the documentary but is not that bad as you are saying. It has some good and funny parts.
November 30, 2010 at 3:52 pm | black_alex98
stupid=stagnant
stupid=inevolution
stupid=uneducated
stupid=bad maners
stupid=evil at heart
stupid=ignorant
stupid=fun for the moment
stupid=childish
stupid=freedom
stupid=instict
stupid=revolutionary
stupid=IQ 1…..X
stupid=why not?
stupid=human nature
stupid=me
stupid=you
stupid=past,present and future
stupid=genius
stupid=Kanye West
stupid=greed
stupid=lieing to one self
stupid=money
stupid=simple
stupid=polution
stupid=do not brag about it
stupid=necesary for “The Man”
stupid=relateable
stupid=evident pt cei ce nu sunt
stupid=sheep
stupid=nuke
December 1, 2010 at 4:36 am | BaltimoreJen
Kanye LOL
August 29, 2011 at 8:47 am | Anonymous
” I am not gay…and I am not a fish! So how can I be a gay fish?! ” – Kanye
August 29, 2011 at 8:47 am | Anonymous
” I am not gay…and I am not a fish! So how can I be a gay fish?! ” – Kanye
December 1, 2010 at 5:03 am | Viewer
This movie is pure garbage. It’s in such poor taste. Nice job getting cheap laughs off interviewing obviously slow individuals.
December 1, 2010 at 6:37 pm | alfredo
good documentary worth a watch,
the problem defining the word as the documentary reveals was that in its infancy was applied to people with serious Cognitive declines , unable to fend for themselves. Over time the term has been degenerating and used to offend others or as a qualifier non-rational actions.
if an action (stupid) is rewarded through a stimulus (peer recognition), the action is going to be strengthened (and worse, improved), Its the Same in this case.
the biggest problem is not with the one who performs the stupid action but in the ones that celebrate or encourage the act.
February 10, 2011 at 12:30 am | AurusBoreal
I don’t that, “non-rational” actions is a good definition of stupidity. For one thing, most of our actions are non-rational, we mostly operate intuitively, on unconscious psychological motivations and modal behavior. This is because unconscious action is generally more useful (evolutionarily fit) than conscious rational behavior.
Like art and pornography we all just “know it when we see it” when it comes to stupidity. Personally, I don’t believe that it exists, I don’t think that there is even a nearly objective way to measure it, we aren’t at that point in understanding cognition.
I think that, what we mean by “stupid” has to do with affinity. The people who are closest to us in their thinking we consider smart. People who have advanced beyond us in the same line of thinking are considered brilliant. People who are on a completely different line are considered ignorant, particularly if they are intolerant of our line of thinking. So, it’s not a matter of how smart or stupid someone is, it’s how closely their brain functions to our own, and in what way. In that sense, attaching a value judgement to stupidity is pretty, well, stupid.
December 2, 2010 at 6:46 am | Melanie
What’s kind of sad is that really when watching this, I was just getting excited to see Canadian locations (definitely the Banff springs hotel) and actors (Fubar, made in my own city!). So I guess if that’s what I’m most excited about, this documentary must not be very good. It’s pretty stupid.
December 10, 2010 at 3:49 am | Resh
Everyone is stupid in one aspect of life.
Did Americans produce this?
December 23, 2010 at 12:49 am | me
shit doco.
March 22, 2011 at 10:07 pm | scout
Bush, really? Are you people ever EVER gonna stop with that juvenile nonsense about Bush being dumb? The facts simply don’t serve your narrative. Dragging out this cheap trite silliness makes you look like someone with a lazy brain, to put it kindly, and makes the Title of this POS more that a little ironic
March 23, 2011 at 1:23 am | Come on....
I’m not dumb enough to think that Bush isnt!
August 28, 2011 at 11:34 am | Orin
Bush is unintelligent and has little knowledge of the world.In my book that makes him dumb. His daddy probably bought him his degree and made him president. If his daddy was not Bush senior he would probably clean bathrooms or park cars. He was a retarded leader that had advisers that did most of the work for him. He didn’t have to understand anything. Same thing with Sarah Palin. If you think they are smart, than what do you consider stupid?
November 28, 2011 at 11:48 pm | Claire
Obama. The man is so stupid he can’t even speak without having a teleprompter hooked up in front of him. The man is so completely out of touch with reality it’s both sad and absolutely terrifying. Scout is right, no pun intended. People who think Bush is stupid obviously don’t care enough to think for themselves and buy into the crap that he is stupid. At least he had his own ideas instead of being a mindless puppet that has a panic attack when his script fails.
July 11, 2011 at 2:26 pm | jimmy
yep, most valid statement in this doc,
Yo mrs D, bum sex!!
August 28, 2011 at 11:48 am | Orin
IQ test’s test your cognitive skills (language, arithmetic, associative, analytic, spatial). Basically they evaluate how well/quick can you learn. Some people understand right away, some need more time. The IQ test doesn’t take into consideration the capability of training your brain by learning, remembering etc. So the more you train your brain the better your cognitive skills become. Nowadays many things are done automatically without involving ant thinking process. If one does not use his brain often enough his cognitive skills get worse.
September 10, 2011 at 9:25 pm | Bremelo
Frustratingly pedantic.
December 29, 2011 at 2:35 pm | ChucklesLeDeHand
f**king idiots, fun viewing! soo inspirational I wrote a song about it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxxe0tO61c&feature=channel_video_title