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To: letters@nytimes.com Re: What blinds us to our stupidity Date: Monday, 2 May 05 |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Perhaps what blinds us is having given ourselves the wrong name: Homo sapiens, when it should have been Homo stupidus. Americans, like the Europeans they are largely descended from, belong to the subspecies, Homo stupidus economicus (The $6.66-a-Gallon Solution). It is difficult for us to
comprehend just how stupid
we are (all of us), but for
our children’s sake we
urgently need to do so,
because we are quite literally
plundering our planet,
destroying the very basis of
our own existence. The American administration
is deeply in denial, as are
the Americans who elected it,
while you at the NYT are
less deeply in denial, but in
denial nevertheless. If we do not come out of
denial soon, this is going to
be an even worse century than
the last one. It may even be
our last.
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