Delusions of Grandeur and Miscellaneous Prats and Permanently Bewildered and Self-appointed Sages14 Sep 2010 07:30 am

I Proclaim Myself As Higher Knowledge Than Thee

By Gainsbourg

Should the government ask you for policy ideas?

I’m sure this is a proper dickhive of idiocy, but I spent five hours the other night trawling an entire Mail thread on Wayne/Jeni/Coleen, and quite frankly, I can’t be arsed having a decent rummage. Y’all will have to be satisfied with what Tony sent our way.

Anything thats of non use needs to be out.I have many ideas of how to save and prosper but its too much to post here.All men have minds and its not just those in charge who have great ideas.The public has men of great minds out there but they are unheard of and mainly have to expierience deaf ears by those who proclaim themselves as higher knowledge than thee.SO most ideas fall by the wayside and common sense is thrown out.Ignorance is of no shortage by those who have title.Most self serving and unwilling to take the publics input are put aside and scoffed at.This is the mistake of the ages and we as a whole are held back by decisions and ideas of these deaf ears and serve none but themselves or their parties.Mans ignorance attests to all this.No wonder we cannot move forward.
Michael

Common sense, and the people who eulogise it – is anything more depressing? Obviously, leave aside all the wars and shit, and the senseless brutality of nature, and the sheer futility of all human endeavour, and the fact that each one of us is ultimately alone, captive on a rock hurtling through a godless universe towards its eventual destruction, and all the other stuff. Put all that to one side, then ask yourselves: is anything more depressing than common sense and the people who eulogise it? Surely not.

Common sense is the artificial inflation of the value of meagre knowledge. It’s the intellectual equivalent of ‘having a good personality’. It’s the consolation prize for those too dim to achieve anything beyond remembering to breathe for long enough to reproduce. It’s the same level of earthy wisdom that deems modern art ‘crap’, pure research ‘a waste of time’ and Strictly Come Dancing ‘entertainment’. It’s the undentable armour of the stupid, and you’ll never catch them without it. You take it away from them, they’ve got nothing. They’re left naked in the laughing face of their own inferiority, with no choice but to confront the meandering pointlessness of their lives. Which is a lot to confront all in one go.

They cling to it out of fear. Pity them.

45 Responses to “I Proclaim Myself As Higher Knowledge Than Thee”

  1. on 14 Sep 2010 at 8:27 am   GiveItAGo

    I think Einstein had something to say about common sense. Can’t remember what it was though.

    Mind you, what the fuck did he ever do for us, eh? He was probably just in it for the research grants. Common sense, innit.

  2. on 14 Sep 2010 at 8:30 am   Rotwatcher

    I’ve never thought of common sense as being a bad thing before. But common sense tells me that there’s a first time for everything.

  3. on 14 Sep 2010 at 8:51 am   Oaf

    He seems to be economising on using the space bar after full stops.

    That should make his keyboard last a little bit longer.

  4. on 14 Sep 2010 at 9:04 am   Sheepless

    Oi! I came here for a cheer up before work, but now I’m all depressed and stuff.

  5. on 14 Sep 2010 at 9:14 am   millicent

    He seems to be economising on using the space bar after full stops.

    That should make his keyboard last a little bit longer.

    That, and making sure no one else gets a word in edgeways.

  6. on 14 Sep 2010 at 9:20 am   Fat Pant

    By “public” he means HYSers, doesn’t he?

    I’m beginning to see why David Icke claims we’re governed by masonic reptiles. He contemplated what democratic rule by the public would entail and lapsed into wishful thinking.

  7. on 14 Sep 2010 at 9:26 am   Bugrat

    I’ve never thought of common sense as being a bad thing before..

    Common sense is fine if you’ve nothing else to go on, but the HYS molluscs seem to think it should be at the heart of any attempt at reasoning (i.e. if something ‘doesn’t make sense’ then it’s wrong).

  8. on 14 Sep 2010 at 10:46 am   tw@basket.com

    I am sure that there are members of the public who have some creative, and perhaps even workable, new ideas about better ways to run the country. Even so, it is perfectly clear, just from that little snippet, that Michael isn’t one of them. In fact, Michael would do well to assume that everybody he meets “as higher knowledge than thee” and just stop engaging in long arguments with parking attendants, bank cashiers and the like about how they should do their jobs.

    The twatterati in general are a big part of the problem here. Governments do like to consult the public, at least up to a point, as it allows them to get an idea whether a policy will be unpopular in advance and also to share the blame if a policy goes wrong. The constant loud braying for knee-jerk policy reactions in the name of “common sense” just drowns out anybody else who might have something more original and constructive to suggest and makes the public seem more mental than it really is. Who deafened all those “deaf ears” in the first place?

  9. on 14 Sep 2010 at 10:47 am   Dizzy

    Classic. Gold star.

  10. on 14 Sep 2010 at 11:25 am   RIPOFF BRITIAN

    Right now, I would like Michael to post his ideas, although I suspect I’m going to regret it because he comes across as a pompous cock.

  11. on 14 Sep 2010 at 11:44 am   RIPOFF BRITIAN

    After a quick look in that thread:

    8. At 12:23pm on 10 Sep 2010, Beige Rage wrote:

    There is only one thing worse than the decisions made by this ConDem government, and that is asking the general public for policy ideas.

    All it will do is encourage know-it-all numpties and the lynch mob to come up with stupid suggestions.

    …

    35. At 12:49pm on 10 Sep 2010, cnmarland wrote:

    My brother and his wife both work in the employment dept. The best thing the government could do is to bring in business leaders

    His brother and his wife do not work in the employment dept.

    43. At 12:55pm on 10 Sep 2010, KenThompson wrote:

    A quite simple way of saving A FORTUNE would be by abolishing hearings, debates, reviews and endless enquiries. Mostly these are into matters that just need plain old good fashioned COMMON SENSE. But of course there always has to be somebody to blame to keep the compensation vultures busy!

    People die, buildings collapse, cars crash. SO WHAT! GET ON WITH LIFE!

    We DO NOT need costly reviews, usually chaired by pompous people with little experience of life or the real world, to tell us the blindingly obvious every time something happens.

    44. At 12:57pm on 10 Sep 2010, MrWonderfulReality wrote:

    I reckon that if we just took over the heroin poppy fields in Afganistan we could make a few £billion a year = less cuts = at least it would/could pay for our forces being there.

  12. on 14 Sep 2010 at 11:58 am   Kris

    I’ve heard the idea of not burning the Afghan poppy fields and instead selling the the crop to medicinal companies before, but I’m fair sure there’s some wishy washy ethical problem with nicking the profit for ourselves.

    I might be wrong. S’probably common sense or something.

  13. on 14 Sep 2010 at 12:15 pm   Undemocratic Speed Bump

    I must say, Gainsbourg, that is a hefty dose of cynicism. I like it. Tastes like tears.

    This poster is amusing:

    58. At 1:07pm on 10 Sep 2010, corum-populo-2010 wrote:

    Am so angry at being ‘fooled’ by this Government website scam inviting genuine concerns contributing to so-called policy and costs reductions?

    My contributions were focussed on reducing energy bills in all areas of government – and publishing those costs to the tax-payers?

    Is that an issue, NO!!!

    Stop asking questions you idiot.

  14. on 14 Sep 2010 at 12:33 pm   Tony

    Absolute cracker of a thread, this one. A chorus in the key of cunt.

  15. on 14 Sep 2010 at 12:45 pm   Tony

    Although not as good as this one

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/09/is_aid_the_answer.html

    Nothing gives the HYS’ers a greater collective throbbing woody than the chance to berate the ignorant savage on how their problems would go away if they just stopped shagging.

  16. on 14 Sep 2010 at 12:57 pm   Edwin

    Tony

    For a moment I thought that link might be about Wayne Rooney.

  17. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:04 pm   Van Gogh

    Modern art is crap though.

  18. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:12 pm   Gauguin

    You always say that when you get pissed, Vincent.

  19. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:14 pm   dirigible

    “It’s just common sense” is a kind of homeopathic “it’s God’s will” or “it’s historical necessity”.

  20. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:15 pm   Piero Manzoni

    Vincent is quite correct.

  21. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:25 pm   Undemocratic Speed Bump

    Thanks to the link to the “Begging Savages” thread, I’ve discovered Laturnich. It could possibly be that English is not his first language. But far more likely is that he’s just a twat:

    How important is your online image?

    The self-conscience can’t be Deceived. An amateurish scope of the issue at hand here. Is Dishonesty a sport uniquely free from repercussions on the Internet? Is far more a question which pertains.

    Can Gen Petraeus win in Afghanistan?

    Yes, of course. Succeeding in PC fashion is the trick. For Anti-civility, Its a weaponised fact which ranks high in their quiver.

    US oil spill?

    The nearing Trillion dollar clean-up deposit to drill at revolutionary depths needs grow greater as the depths grow deeper.

    He mentions common sense at some point, in a discussion on speeding fines. I like him because his entire output is utterly incomprehensible.

  22. on 14 Sep 2010 at 1:26 pm   Pierre Wong

    I’m a master painter from 500 years in the future and we all really like the watercolours of Danny Dyer, despite the shameful manner of his death.

  23. on 14 Sep 2010 at 2:17 pm   Timmy Taylor

    I would have said get rid of the sham government and their expenses and use BBC HYS to govern the country, but has they have removed the recomend facility, it is impossible to judge public opinion on HYS now.
    The only alternative is to use the Daily Mail opinions page and construct government policy from there. A fairer Britain for all.

  24. on 14 Sep 2010 at 2:18 pm   lentil molester

    The self-conscience can’t be Deceived. An amateurish scope of the issue at hand here. Is Dishonesty a sport uniquely free from repercussions on the Internet? Is far more a question which pertains.

    I’m sure I got an email saying exactly that. Turned out it was advertising cock pills.

    Think of it.

  25. on 14 Sep 2010 at 3:05 pm   Atom Antsy

    He mentions common sense at some point, in a discussion on speeding fines. I like him because his entire output is utterly incomprehensible.

    I get the feeling this is because he originally wrote it in some un-English language that only terrists speak (like Swahili), translated it into Korean, then into German and finally into English.

    At least I hope to high heaven that this is what happened. There can be no other explanation.

  26. on 14 Sep 2010 at 3:05 pm   Atom Antsy

    Cocking buggering blockquotes fail.

    Minge.

  27. on 14 Sep 2010 at 3:16 pm   Dave

    I think Michael’s sending us a coded message that he wants to repatriate all deaf people back to Deafistan.

  28. on 14 Sep 2010 at 4:34 pm   Twat in a Hat

    I’ve heard the idea of not burning the Afghan poppy fields and instead selling the the crop to medicinal companies before, but I’m fair sure there’s some wishy washy ethical problem with nicking the profit for ourselves.

    Not at all. Just pay the farmers fair-trade prices, in any case more
    than the local gangsters are willing to pay, and leave them to it.
    I’m sure it would still work out cheaper than cultivating lower-grade
    opium in Essex and waging a spurious “war on drugs”.

  29. on 14 Sep 2010 at 5:35 pm   Kris

    @Twat in a Hat

    Yeah man, that’s what I meant. The HYSer seemed to be suggesting stealing all the heroin and selling it to addicts for quick cash.

  30. on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:30 pm   tw@basket.com

    Vincent is quite correct.

    Can it, Manzoni!

  31. on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:44 pm   Mr Poo

    stealing all the heroin and selling it to addicts for quick cash.

    I’d suggest stealing the land, then leasing it back to the poppy farmers at extortionate rates. That way you get an ongoing cashflow , and you don’t have to deal with junkies.

  32. on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:45 pm   Tracey emin

    Will all of you dead bastards please just Fuck off!

  33. on 14 Sep 2010 at 6:47 pm   Yourockyourule

    @Timmy Taylor
    I really can’t believe you haven’t got the hang of this yet…

  34. on 14 Sep 2010 at 9:47 pm   Michael Barrymore

    Oops – sorry Danny. That pool’s a deathtrap…

  35. on 15 Sep 2010 at 12:23 am   Hog Lumps

    Finally, someone else who hates common sense as much as me. The refuge of people who call everyone ‘mate’. Bunch of unimaginative, boring cunts, they all are.
    If I’m right.

  36. on 15 Sep 2010 at 12:43 am   Thomas Paine

    Fuckers.

  37. on 15 Sep 2010 at 4:01 am   Antonio Gramsci

    What a bunch of cunts.

  38. on 15 Sep 2010 at 8:31 am   Laurence Stephen Lowry

    Bunch of soft southern cockwombles

  39. on 15 Sep 2010 at 8:35 am   Laurence Stephen Lowry

    Quote from the proposed “Republican” representative for Delaware:

    O’Donnell was the leader of the Christian lobby group Saviour’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth. In a television interview a decade ago, she said: “The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can’t masturbate without lust.”

    ..or ANGER, sooo much ANGER

  40. on 15 Sep 2010 at 9:16 am   Hubert Cumberdale

    Utterly sublime writing. If only someone had told Hague…

  41. on 15 Sep 2010 at 9:28 am   ceannair

    So you can’t masturbate without lust.

    You can, it’s just not as much fun.

  42. on 15 Sep 2010 at 9:31 am   Theodor Adorno

    Told you so.

  43. on 15 Sep 2010 at 10:30 am   Max Horkheimer

    Ironically enough you did, Theo, yes…

  44. on 15 Sep 2010 at 9:07 pm   Have Your Lurk

    People die, buildings collapse, cars crash. SO WHAT! GET ON WITH LIFE!

    Yeah. I mean, who needs architects and civil servants and building regulations and so on, eh? Buildings collapse. So what. Get on with it.

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