Worst case of stupidity

What is stupidity? Stupidity is the inability of a brain to be coherent with circumstances, resulting to unwarranted oversights and displacements. Several types of stupidity plagued our network of minds as lack of comprehension, insensitivity, clumsiness, forgetfulness, irrationality, retardation, gullibility and fallibility, each to their respective levels in severity. The overly simplified excuses to vindicate oneself would be "one is only human" and "nobody is perfect". As with any imperfections in life, the unforgiving level would be breached when one is no longer responsive for any improvement either due to an inability of learning or stubbornness. The worst case of stupidity would be - when one is totally unaware that he or she is guilty of such verdict.

Are you an easy prey for identity theft?

One of the most distinctive effect of mass population growth coupled with technological advancement is - the individual becomes virtually miniature and identities are accessed simply with signatures, alphanumerical data and passwords. How easy is it for someone to pretend to be you?

For anyone to pretend to be you, they need only the following information, combined with some detailed circumstances of your life's events. Viola! You have an identity clone! Your official name, date of birth, birthplace, mother's maiden name, father's name and your address - all key elements vital to cloning your identity. By any combination of above, one can actually secure a birth certificate or even apply for a job under your name.

Identity thieves may not even have to divest from you directly. Your info may have been readily available without your intention of it being so. Each minor data you shared daily represents a piece of the puzzle the thieves will work on. With the help of an unintentional assuming "accessory" fallible enough to complete the otherwise missing link, you are now vulnerable to a takeover by your clone, a swindling and character substitution or defamation. Reconsider before you ever give out any vital data. If it is necessary and why. Unless it's "official" business, you can always use a nick or alias. There are no laws enacted against the use of nicknames, provided you don't violate any other applicable laws in conjunction with using the nick. If you have to give out one vital info, hold on to another unless it becomes absolutely necessary to divulge. This will prevent identity thieves from combining these info to extrapolate a clone. Also avoid yourself becoming an "accessory by assumption". If someone tells you he or she is so and needed this or that, you can always reply that you are "mickey mouse". Remember, the most effective defense against identity theft is to not share your "official" data unless it involves "official" business.

Anti-phishing or pro-stupid?

While using the Internet, you would come across hordes of site warnings and offers to avail of their anti-phis hing programs and blah blah. What then is phis hing or "phishing"? Phis hing is the obtaining of vital information via the process of an assumption. Whereas scheming requires the manipulation of other's thoughts to obtain something, phis hing requires nothing more than the presumptuousness of another. Whereas scheming victimizes both smart and gullible, phis hing works only if the intended victims are gullible and presumptuous. There are no schemes required to phi sh. All that is necessary is to induce an assumption and wait for potentially gullible minds to bait . At its extreme, it's like saying "Hey, tell me where you keep your money so that I can help you find it when you forget". Believe it or not, a big chunk of the human race actually fell for it, that's why phis hing pays well for identity thieves.

Since the human mind continues to be fallible and assuming, entrepreneurs capitalized on this weakness by selling anti-phis hing programs. The anti-phis hing program is a software which will tell or "block" you from being phi sh. By relying on these programs, you no longer have to worry about being duped. Oh yeah, but this in turn makes your brain all the while more gullible. Pretty soon, you won't even be able to tell if something is genuine or not even if the spellings are obviously wrong. In effect, anti-phis hing programs which were designed to be anti-stupid are actually pro-stupid or pro-dummy. If you have to use these, you must be fallible if not gullible.

Do you love to wish?

What is it to wish? Being of higher intelligence, the human dominates the top of the food chain by utilizing his utmost prowess and tool - analytical and rational brain. Ironically, it is also the human who loves most to wish. Where the brain fails to resolve, passion intercedes by subjugating the unforeseeable to wishes.

And so it goes, the more wishes one makes, the less his mind resolves and the more dependent he becomes for longing. Wishing is more of an inferiority than a superiority of trait. It is directly proportional to a person's inability to rationalize and 'strategize' a solution. Wishing also denotes laziness as the brain prefers to long instead of think. This inherent weakness or temptation to wish must have been inherited even as a child and passed on to adulthood. We observed people "wishing" and assumed the habit. And what happens if a wish fails to materialize? We became helpless which in turn activates another negative passion - frustration. Wish not and be not frustrated.

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