Planet Stupid: How Earth Got Dumber and Dumber

America is approaching MEANING ZERO. Jean Baudrillard wrote, "We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning." When meaning vanishes, emotion fills the vacuum. Emotion is the only thing that means anything to most people these days. They slavishly worship their own feelings and experiences, and trash any notion of objective Truth. They proclaim their own truth. Everyone these days believes whatever they want to believe, regardless of any facts to the contrary. This is the post-facts world, the post-truth world. The only good news is fake news telling you exactly what you want to hear. All fake news with which you agree is true; all fake news with which you disagree is disgusting fake news! That's the way this game is played. Believe whatever serves your agenda, and dismiss anything that doesn't.

This is Planet Stupid, and it's getting stupider with every passing second. Everything that could make it more intelligent is rejected and loathed. If that's not dumb, what is?

The 20th of January, 2017, Donald Trump's Inauguration Day ... a Day that will live in Infamy, the advent of Dumbocalypse Now. The first Dunning-Kruger President has entered the White House. American democracy has gone terminal. As Oswald Spengler predicted in his prophetic masterpiece The Downfall of the West (written in the aftermath of World War One), the Age of the Caesars has dawned.

Have you heard about the man who went to see the doctor, telling him that he felt overcome by a terrible sadness? The man didn't want to get up in the morning. He just couldn't find any meaning in life. The doctor said, "You must go to see the pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose. Tears of laughter ran down my face. I guarantee Grimaldi the clown will cure you completely!"

The man replied gloomily, "I am Grimaldi the clown."

That's how all Americans will be feeling soon.