"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" WB Yeats Intelligence is naturally hesitant, it has an appreciation of possible downsides.

I appreciate the ability to extrapolate to consider outcomes and dead ends. From slaughtering students on Ohio State campus to illegal extreme rendition of suspected gang members to El Salvador prisons. The murdered and now the disappeared. Hey US?! You are Scarface.

Alternatively, but equally on point when describing the hard of thinking: ‘Only a closed mind is certain’ ~ Dean Spanley

and the stupid ones never really give thought to responding to anything and repeat what others have said

I've never heard confidence substituted for shit, but I guess it works.

Avoid calling Rs stupid. Soulless. Uninformed work…

Very true!

This cult is the result of religious indoctrination.

Yep, exactly

Precisely

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I am FULLY CONFIDENT that this is correct. Ooops ... 🙃

are you sure?

Positive

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

And now the stupid ones are in charge.

Charles was indeed stupid

And intelligent people are constantly told to not use the fullest extent of their vocabulary, because you are "uppity" if you use words like "caveat".

Cognitive Biases can impairing your judgment. Always keep an open mind, even if you are confident of the answer.

“The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity” - Yates

Just a thought... You win over the people of Texas, you beat Trump. I don't say this to sound like no other state matters, because they do. I say this because Texas holds one of the biggest armories in the land along with California. #WEARETHEFLOOD

That’s one of the truest statements ever uttered.

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generalstrikeus.com It is time to escalate peacefully it numbers that cannot be ignored.

Consciousness has downfalls.

I doubt that.

Excellent point.

Literal definition of Dunning Kruger effect

And here we are

Yep.

And you can’t fix stupid 😬

That's not Bukosky, Yeats instead

Great words of wisdom... Bukowski was a literary gem!

Too bad it wasn’t original, it still.

this is a little outdated now, today, we are all super confident bolstered with infinite data from our ouija boards.

Sadly, the stupid ones get things done, be it good or bad, because they haven't thought themselves into a corner.

'Nahh, Trusk ain't confident. They got crime plans.

Unfortunately

Bingo

The problem is smart people who refuse to accept the facts that are out there for all to see. Instead many are blinded by their lack of education, biases, racism, sexism, delusion, cult mentality (including religion), mental illnesses, seeking a big Daddy to solve all their problems.

Similar to the Dunning Kruger effect

So true - this is the problem.

Bertrand Russell wrote this in the 1930s, when Bukowski was a boy. Perhaps Bukowski and the meme writer were in an alcoholic blackout when they ripped this off? Source: Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.2, p.28. russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM

Where's Hank Chinaski when you need him?

Hank Chinaski and I heartily recommend Tuco's exhortation: "If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?" That has stayed with me since I was a preteen when The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released. Seems like good advice, especially now.

Simple (and wrong) solutions, shouted with absolute confidence, can drown out complicated (but useful) solutions delivered with a tentative voice.

This is a big part of Trump's appeal among his supporters: ambient anxiety about social problems increases hunger for simple solutions. And nothing whets the appetite more than blaming "those black/brown/trans/gay/women-on-the-pill/old/sick/Liberal people over there" for all the problems.

Intelligent caring people try to do things in a thoughtful way while less intelligent people don't take the time to think things out and just do stupid shit/ like Elon he breaks stuff. 🙄

I'm fairly sure the USA had a political party called the Know Nothings. Well, I wouldn't brag about it.

I prefer this quote in the original Yeats.

Oh no they're not 😁😁😁

Bullseye 🎯

True.

This is making me cry now. I’m so tired. 9 years of terror and constant worry that what is happening right now will happen.

Bukowski, Russell, Yeates,.. who said it first? Maybe none of them. " ὃς ἂν μηδὲν εἰδῇ, πάντα δοκεῖ ", Menander, 4th century BC, said basically the same thing. So in this respect things didn't change over 2500 years.

Socrates said it too.

Greek to me...

You are alive!!!

"...... and evil people know that."

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false, doubt creates intellect

No the problem is people period.

8000%

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I have some very dumb relatives who literally think they know everything about everything with full confidence.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” “The Second Coming”, William Butler Yeats. See also: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

W.B.Yeats : “ The Second Coming “ Written in 1919

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Ain’t that the truth.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

Hard facts!

Stupid people don't know they're stupid, because they're stupid... 😐

And today, even smart people are stupid.

SPOT ON

Thanks. I needed that reminder this morning

Wow. Charles Bukowski! Rough hewn, down and dirty real world poet/author who irreverently reflected the grunge & desperation of crappy American life. Another great artist who spent his/her youth in Baltimore, MD, like Frank Zappa & Randy Newman.

Or….put another way.

Lord, what he said! Testify, amen.

The intelligent people are overthinking, too 🙃

brilliant...

That quote is 🔥

And the president is full of shit.

Aww, the indefatigable combination of incompetence and hubris… which btw is exactly how men and women see themselves. Men overestimate their intelligence, skills, looks while women consistently underestimate theirs. Now excuse me while I go overthink this post…

Did he say that confidently?

☝️I said to meself 24h ago🤔 itsa better tobe a shit-for-brains ignorant f..ker in the UK. If ya knowledgeable & sorta see the "writing on the wall" and ..um..get fings in focus itza "capital offence" almost if ya a [Quote]"shithead"..⁉️ This amounts to an ironic but important distinction‼️👽 #novaralive

Dunning-Kruger effect

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Karoline Leavitt

Is Bukowski quoting (or misquoting) Bertrand Russell? "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Russell in turn may be thinking of Yeats' 'The Second Coming'

Certainly Yeats. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" was written in 1919. Doubtful Bukowski would have realized that the crux of the thought had been expressed years earlier, and several degrees of magnitude better, by an actual poet.

Also Pope's "Angels fear to tread...". Common observation.

Probably yes, and probably yes.

Yeats beat him to that sentiment

We're being led by idiots who are always wrong but full of confidence.

Never underestimate the power of stupid

The problem is that we accept confidence over intelligence.

When he was quite young our 3rd son observed that”the people who know the least are the most sure of it.” True.

Always worth a reskeet

Gracias Charlie. Herein lies the difference between libtard and contard.

Full of confidence, whiney as hell and loud as shit.

Socrates said, “I am the wisest man because I know that I am not wise.”

This👆🏻 it took me being a grown ass adult, changing careers at 41, to learn. I'd consider myself intelligent, I have my Masters degree, so why should I doubt myself when I'm more educated than most of the population.

Brilliant

I have no doubt and I have ,for a year been typing what I believe is the true path out of this and most issues of humanity.No bullshit,in fact ,Threads killed me off because I became bolder in my proclamations,so they had to have thought/deemed me a lunatic. My theory is going to panic the 30%'ers.

Anyone specific in your mind?

You never know what "can" is in play. All over the media.

The christian mob arrives again to burn down the library.

A Stone Fleet:;

Yes 😔✨🖤✨

And he was full of booze

I’m intelligent but have to doubts

True Statement!

Never were truer fucking words spoken.