the lowest common denominator

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"I see dumb people." - some t-shirt

what's your definition of stupid or stupidity? if you think about it hard enough, you'll find that it truly is a difficult question to answer. we all find certain stupid things annoying. yet some stupid things are very amusing and totally laughable. how many people actually paid money to see "jackass" the movie? exactly. and how many people watched mr. bean? ok, so stupidity actually seems to be a attractive quality if shown in the correct way. (could w. really be smart and is actually acting dumb??) why? i believe it is because stupidity, like sex, is to something that which we all can relate. (uh, sorry to all the people practising celibacy (wtfuwt?), abstainers 'til marriage (ditto), and guys who want to but can't and probably never will for whatever reason. take consolation in the fact that you may also qualify to be excluded from relating to this entire post.) take another step and we could call this "common sense". i mean, do we not often say after some stupid episode, "if only common sense was used..." alas, on first reading, it appears to describe the lack of common sense as stupidity, but after some thought, common sense is stupidity, itself. we have to think of all the stupid things that we could do in order to avoid doing something stupid i.e. showing some common sense. therefore showing some common sense indicates that you can imagine all of the stupid situations that may arise proving that you can think stupid, stupid.