Our leading cause of death was ignorance and our leading cause of emotion was music, but everybody blamed both of these on something else -- death on people and disease; emotion on people and religion.

Finally, one day, a charismatic leader arose and exhorted the people to fight the war against stupidity, because "stupidity is too much fun -- we won't willingly give it up without a fight".

First, he asked the museums to come forward and confess their profound hatred of art -- not that it wasn't already obvious to everyone. And not that their campaign against it under the guise of presenting it, hadn't already had a long-lasting effect on human culture and, by implication, the human psyche.

Then he instructed the army to wage relentless war against all militarism. "Kill All Militarist Scumballs," was the slogan written boldly across the armbands that members of all armed services wore. Ditto the craft services -- and it was legal to poison the fast food of anyone suspected of being a militarist scumball.

Finally a plan for orderly evacuation was discussed.

It was to be an orderly evacuation by the mind from its former "human" machinery.

Yet the machinery claimed credit for the mind existing at all, and wasn't willing to give it up without a fight -- the same fight that we are unwilling to give up stupidity without.

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