Stupidity, from the day Ruth turned around to look at Sodom to George Bush (The Lesser) running the "most powerful nation on earth," has been the real force that has run the world up from the ground, and back into the ground, time and time again.
The Hall Wall of Fame Shame will closely study the evolution(?) and importance of stupidity.
Welcome to the Mad Dog Mental Institution's Stupidology 101.
Definitions:
1) System in Natural Stupidity (SINS): A system which does not have the capacity to read, store, interpret, or apply information about its environment (e.g. three rocks on the ground or Administrators)
2) System Organized Stupidly (SOS): A system which lack the abiliby to reflect on its own behavior with respect to the environment and its own trends (e.g. a girlfriend or Language Art Department).
3) Artificially Stupid System (ASS): A system that possesses the technical capacities to know and understand itself but fails to use them (e.g. a College).
Gustave Flaubert once noted that "to be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless." Of course Flaubert was expelled from elementary school and failed his law exams, so it's possible he wasn't the carrying brightest torch in the night rally. He also managed to get several cases of venereal disease and died in a welter of financial difficulties.
And he's a literary hero.
The Hall Wall of Fame Shame will explore the proposition that everyone else is big, stupid, idiot. We will go on to test the proposal that it is we tortured few who are the only smart ones, and that our intelligence is actually a curse. If people are so freaking stupid, how can mankind survive? Surprisingly, it may be that stupidity is an evolutionary positive.
If it could get hairy people dressed in mastodon-hide frocks our of their caves and into patent-leather loafers and cheeseburgers, it certainly had something going on.
Fortunately, an institution of higher education is an excellent place to investigate stupidity, for unlimited tenure permits unlimited stupidity.
If you came to learn about stupidity, the Mad Dog Mental Institution is the place!