There is a familiar checklist for extinction and we are ticking off every item of it. The idiots know only one word: more. They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds where they eat chocolate cake and order missile strikes. They see the state as a projection of their own vanity.



failed evolution





The idiots seen in the decay the chance of personal advancement in profit, takeover in the final days of crumbling civilizations.



Idiot generals wage endless unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation.





Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor. And project economic growth on the basis of myth.





Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air. Slash jobs and depress wages.





Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles and impose crippling debt peonage on the citizens.





Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend despotism is democracy.





Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrowing of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics.





Idiot professors, experts and specialists busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttress the policies of the rulers.





Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, dour and fantasy.



