Oh, isn’t she cute?
Rather than choosing to explain why a fifth of Americans can’t find the US on a world map, Miss South Carolina apparently chose to demonstrate why.
This is a perfect example of the sort of person who goes on to a bright future in government or corporate communications departments. They string overtly intelligent-sounding but vapid catch-phrases together regardless of actual semantic content (or lack thereof). Expressing a coherent thought is at best optional and often to risky within the context of jockeying for status within hierarchies.
This is what the US education/indoctrination system produces because this is what the authoritarian US political system demands. We are fast approaching what the late Robert Anton Wilson (Goddess rest his soul) referred to as “Optimum Fuckup” in his discussions of communications theory.
Hat tip: Last Free Voice
UPDATE: We find a relevant factoid in this article that also happens to briefly mention a beauty queen (sort of…), but otherwise is not particularly relevant in toto…
“Miller’s routine is called “Incredible Feats of Stupidity” and highlights Pentagon programs such as the one that provided landlocked Zimbabwe with anti-submarine rockets.”
Not that stupid when you realize a fundamental purpose of the US defense budget is simply to act as an overt rationale to transfer wealth from the productive class to political class defense contractors.
Knowledge of geography is now fucking subversive…
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