VARIOUS MEASURES OF DUMBIVITY

Warning: this is written in first person narration manner. The “I” here doesn’t refer to the author.

Dumbivity: refers to the ability to stay dumb in a large group of normal people equipped with common sense.

What have I done??

What is that I have not done?

I have no idea what I have not done that would help me through this?

I hate “W” questions yet I just am as blank as I could be when it comes to myself. Why the heck is that I can’t control my dumbivity?  Why is that I am so bad at managing my own dumbivity??    - confessions of a you-dunno-who

 People naturally expect people to grow up mentally and physically with time. If one goes dumber, that is just “a” case. Why? Because there are always exceptions among the normals. I just put back their opinions in place in case it had increased by decimals – regarding my growth as a person from a kid. Hey, don’t laugh, okay, they do have the right to.

I have no idea as to why I am SO dumb. I mean, I didn’t take any reverse magic portion that would make me dumber than I naturally am. And this world, now listen here coz I am making a statement similar to the ones often made by philosophers – world famous ones at that - this world is so full of normal men – and when I say normal, I of course mean the mediocre mentioned by Wittgenstein and the “childlike” meant by Hesse’s Siddhartha – and with all their natural aptitude to make mistakes once in a while, and the unwavering strong belief that they possess this rare and precious quality called common sense, believe that dumber people are dumb. And when I say “dumber people”, I mean people who are dumber than the normal people, because, hey, Mr. Mediocre and Ms. Childlike, did you both know that people who believe themselves to be having higher brain levels (okay, I meant higher IQ levels or whatever, you got me and that is the point)than you have named you mediocre and childlike?

Oh…kay, now here is something you should swallow- cause there is no use chewing –the fact is going to remain a fact no matter how long you chew. And please don’t think much about this and heat up your brain about who the idiot called you that. That is my whole point. When you say that someone is a dumb or a senseless idiot (sense doesn’t refer to the 5 essential senses that “normal” human beings have, I refer to here the common sense which is so very uncommon that it is often considered the sixth sense), you must realize that someone else is calling you the same from some corner of the world. So not being able to know that someone DOES call you a dumb idiot doesn’t give you any right to call someone else that. So basically, when a species with higher brain level (which you can find on this planet itself- they call themselves philosophers or scientists) considers the rest of humanity dumb, it includes you and me. So why calling me dumb idiot brother? (no comma here- pun intended) I didn’t do anything harmful to you, did I? When you try to justify yourself by claiming that you are controlling the damage done by me, you mean nothing. Because you don’t know which all acts you did would need damage control.

 There is a method in madness. True. When you consider mad people abnormal, you forget that they can equally consider you the abnormal people and themselves very normal. A whole world of chances that madness can be the method and normal can be not civilization. Now, now, now, don’t start thinking that I am only talking about chances here. How are you so sure that you are right?? Aren’t you being dumb when you think that you are the normal rational people with senses (common sense again of course). What surety do you have about the so-called mad people that you have passed by in the street or put in asylum are sitting together having their glass of drink and laughing at your stupidity that you believe that you are the rational ones while actually you are the absolute dumb ones who look at the uniquely talented and set brains and call them mad or dumb and treat them in a psychiatric ward or with sympathy and feed them with healthy food for free?

Now we can leave the hypothetical situation. Have you ever thought how unique and special a dumb person’s mind is?  Let’s take a party. When there are so many normal people, how many dumb persons can you find in a room? One….or two. And do you have any idea how their mind works? How they think and imagine things so very differently?

So, let’s get this straight and clear.  We all are dumb, varying only by decimal measures. So we can brace or embrace ourselves as we are and treat each other with respect. And when this higher species look down upon you from “up there” and call you dumb, mediocre and childlike, we can tell them that we do respect each other and do not look down upon others on the basis of various measures of dumbivity (I just invented a word – told you about the imagination capability of a so-called dumb mind!!) now say the motto of personality development trainers, ”I am awesome, you are awesome, I love myself”. Now go complete that tub or chocolate ice cream in the refrigerator. Let all the dumb people have at cool stomachs…the dumber ones  have already got cool brains, you know.

 By the way, I have decided to remain an eternal child for myself. So don’t come looking for me grown up.