Stupidity,

 

Our usual way of talking – in which our language doesn’t match with our experience – which I call Disembodied Language (DL), is really the language of stupidity. If you would notice this yourself, you would immediately recognize your ability, to have Embodied Language (EL) and leave behind your DL, your old, stupid and unrealistic way of dealing with your language. Stupidity is not freedom and as long as you have DL, you continue to act like a zombie.  

 

You could also say that DL is the language of others, but EL is your language, that is, the language of the individual. Individual freedom requires a different way of dealing with language and since you haven’t made the change from DL to EL, your life is one big, tragic, stupid contradiction. You cannot be free and enjoy your individuality, as long as your language is only allowing you to express your stupidity. You’ve got to stop your DL, so that you can finally instruct yourself with EL, to move away from your stupidity.

 

When you at long last have EL and ask yourself, why you did not have any EL before, you immediately realize the stupidity of this question and you laugh, as you know, you are having it now, but you didn’t know what you know now. Of course, you know it, when you have EL and the whole notion, that you must work on yourself, to have it, is pure stupidity.  When you have EL, you don’t need to ask yourself any questions, as you know what you are talking about. Your stupidity only lasts as long as you are still involved in DL, but when DL stops, it is gone.

 

We imitate each other, to fit in and to, supposedly, feel safe, but acting as others do, is sheer stupidity. If you would have EL, you would know this instantly and acknowledge and accept yourself, but with DL, you tell yourself, to try harder, to be accepted or to get recognized by others. Basically, with your DL, you remain hopelessly stuck in your own stupidity. It isn’t anyone else’s fault, you keep on pretending that your stupidity has any meaning or is something valuable, that needs to be defended or asserted.

 

With DL, you shoot yourself in the foot and you fall victim to your own stupidity. I didn’t make it so, but you did. Only if you stop having your DL, things are going to change for the better. The saying, much ado about nothing, refers the common stupidity, when people create a lot excitement and fuss about something that is actually of little or no importance. Your DL always implies, there is much more activity, thrill, eagerness or expectation, then your situation deserves. Your stupidity always makes a big deal out of nothing. Comedy is a study of human stupidity.

 

Only with EL, will you be able to laugh about your own stupidity. Catching yourself while you have DL, is like catching yourself in a moment of stupidity and switching to EL, allows to be grateful to yourself for being able to laugh about and to learn from your own stupidity. It is about time, that you realize what has been bothering you all along. Your stubbornness is ninety percent of your stupidity and perhaps even more. With EL, you don’t beat yourself up about your own stupidity, because you can laugh about it.

 

Your EL reveals to you, that not listening to yourself while you speak, is the most blatant act of stupidity. You keep having DL, because it is easier to recognize the madness and stupidity in others. With DL, you always want to punish stupidity, as if it was a crime, but your EL shows, this has only made things worse.  The difference between malice and stupidity, is that the former is said to be intentional, and the latter is unintentional. However, it is always after we finally are done arguing, whether it was one or the other, that we realize the stupidity of it all. With EL, we all agree, that malice, of course, is a form of stupidity.

 

Since I am speaking about the difference between DL and EL, on my own authority and not from some officially, socially sanctioned, professional capacity, it is easy to continue with your stupidity of defying me. To me, it makes absolutely no difference at all anymore – it did in the past, but this is no longer the case – whether you agree with me or not. I know for a fact, that if you continue with your dumb DL, you will experience the negative consequences of your own stupidity, but if you engage in EL, you will reap the wonderful fruits of your own intelligence.