Stupidity, democracy, and blogging

Although I could really care less about the honor bestowed on me by Time magazine, comrade Faber raises some important points in his screed below. Specifically, are people truly stupid, and if so, do they like it that way?

Socrates used this as his main argument against democratic governance, and similar complaints have been made about the wisdom of wikipedia and the banality of blogs. Despite the nay-sayers, I think overall stupid people manage to govern themselves somewhat reasonably and even create content which is at least amusing, and in certain ways improves on the traditional derided MSM, mostly by cannibalizing the information, and regurgitating it with added digestive juices of opinion. And we all eat it up like the dogs we are.

So I thought it appropriate to share something that relates at once to (allegedly) democratic self-governance, bloggy content, and stupidity. The back story is horrendously complicated, but to summarize, it started with a show trial of Comrade Clarke for his offenses against the We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball Now Party (WAAGNFNP). In his defense, he presented the following video: