THE FOLKSY PROVERB (February 7, 2014)

One of the restaurants to which my beloved and I go for late lunch or early dinner about once a fortnight is decorated with folksy proverbs lining all the walls. They all come in their own frames. Most of them are neither here nor there, but one of the proverbs is quite to my liking, and I often find myself staring at it. “Human intelligence is limited,” it declares blithely, “but stupidity is unlimited!” One cannot argue about intelligence, but there is something almost appealing about stupidity. Perhaps it is the only human trait that is unlimited, indeed. In fact, I cannot come up with any other trait of such distinction. Judging by the historical record, human stupidity is no less than prodigious, as well. But the future promises new flights of stupidity, some of which will surely be remarkable in their daring. Go humans, go! The historical record is there to be broken over and over again. And the folksy proverb is squarely on your side. The sky is the limit!