Some time ago, there was a comedian by the name of Ron White. Many of you might remember him from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. He did a skit which is one of the funniest ever and the title was “You can’t fix stupid”. Well tonight, I learned something that will place me at odds with one of my favorite comedians. Tonight, I learned that you indeed can fix stupid.
Stupid is the number one rater given to you by your parents, your peers and yes even society. It is believed that the average person’s intelligence quote or IQ is said to be 100, below average would then have to be anything below 100 but above 70 because 70 is considered mentally challenged. Of course this scale also sees any score above 140 as a genius. IQ is defined as mental age divided by chronological age times 100. Having said all that, would it surprise you to know that none of this really matters? It may matter to those who attempt to map the human brains and understanding so that they can claim to have figured out something that many didn’t know or propel themselves to a level where questioning their results or conclusions may prove daunting and therefore keep others from doing it. Society has decided that these and other scales are now the norm in calculating and labeling people within the society, using it to figure out who matters, who doesn’t and who should be ignored. All of this is not what stupid really is but until we began to understand truly what it is, we will continue to mark ourselves with those scarlet letters and continue to fall for a definition of who we are from people who don’t know anything about us. I learned tonight that you can fix stupid because I learned what stupid really is.
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