The Dunciad

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift

"Never argue with stupid people. They'll drag you down to their level..." - Mark Twain

This is a book about stupid people. Dunces are everywhere. They are infecting the world with their ignorance, their irrationalism, their illogic. They are blocking human evolution. There is no more pressing question for smart people than what to do about the idiots. The intelligent cannot succeed while the unintelligent are wrecking everything, dragging everything down to the lowest common denominator, manically racing to the bottom.

This subject is nothing new. All intelligent people have always been aware of the dreadful force of stupidity, which has, if truth be told, been the most powerful and ubiquitous force in human history, to the extreme detriment of humanity.

A modern expression of this moronic force is trolling, whereby anomic retards try to sabotage and mock all things high-minded and intelligent.

This book is an exploration - through case studies of real trolls - of the modern phenomenon of vicious, sadistic, cretinous trolling.

The 18th century expert on dunces and trolls was the English poet Alexander Pope. In his mock-epic The Dunciad, he mercilessly satirized the stupid people all around him.

We shall use his work as a starting point for our adventure into the underworld of dim, dull, dense people. Without fail, these idiots manifest the Dunning-Kruger effect: they all suffer from an astonishing superiority complex. Their own estimation of their abilities bears no resemblance to the objective reality of their meagre and usually non-existent talents.

We shall delve into The Dunciad to show how all of its central themes and concerns are even more pressing in today's world.