Warning: This reply is extremely pessimistic and sardonic. My grandfather is dying of kidney failure right now, so my vain attempts at optimism are failing right now, and all you're going to get from this response is my unbridled, most pessimistic view of human beings imaginable. Also, it's only kind of on topic, so, you know, ignore it if you want to keep talking cop-stuff.
It was more of a joke at the expense of the population because saying "we have the literacy and general comprehensive ability of seventh graders" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. The average (being 100 that it is) is dimwitted and generally incapable of perceiving much beyond their inherent beliefs. Ergo why you can have millions of people screeching incoherently about many various ideologies from the religious to the political to the economic. Even things as completely idiotic and unimportant as "dem vidya gaemz have titties" gets tens of thousands riled up and screeching, news media rolling propagandist black and white pieces on one side or the other, and so on.
The reason giant parties like the Democrats and the Republicans exist in the US is specifically
because the median average is borderline retarded and entirely incapable of seeing beyond their own conceptions of what the universe should be. Instead of having several views, you always wind up with a few powerhouses because people get indoctrinated into a viewpoint and then never question it. Not many people accept the universe for what it is and how very infantile we are in our general understanding of it, leave alone on complex socioeconomic issues like poverty and cop abuse against blacks. There are hundreds of thousands of cops and millions of blacks, and we're supposed to draw conclusions on the
entirety of all cops or black people based on a handful of examples from news media that has been time and again proven to be
politically biased? Or from facebook posts that talk about personal experiences that nobody can even physically verify if they occurred in real life most of the time? Hell, look at this
raving stupidity where someone attached a quote from the
fucking unabomber to a picture of Bernie Sanders. It got over 9,000 shares. Only a few people actually clued in that this was nonsense.
The average, 100 IQ level human being in the United States of America, is borderline fucking retarded. They could save themselves very easily if they wanted to by manipulating the very political system they have by starting from the bottom up. They don't do so because they're too busy staring at pictures of Kim Kardashian, or playing video games, or watching movies, or fighting over stupid, pointless, idiotic nonsense. Change in society--meaningful, productive change--comes incredibly slowly because the majority of people are content to live in a fantasy world where everything they believe to be right,
is right, without question. Look at the sheer number of petitions on Change.org. Look at the sheer volume of people who are too fucking lazy to do anything about real problems, so they throw off a single 60-second "signing" of a petition that has only as much political power as those in charge allow it to have.
As much as I believe in and seek to protect core individual rights, it's not because I think the individual is in any way, shape, or form, important or meaningful. The vast majority of individuals are popcorn eating fucktards who think that Transformers is good film, who think that blatant over-sexualization and stereotypical minority roles are somehow reflective of the real world. People who never, ever change their views of the world, who never consider another side, who preach tolerance only if it conforms to their interests. No, I believe in individual rights, because those few not-retarded people, are the only thing keeping this species going, and the laws which best enable them to slowly implement changes necessary to society, should be kept sacrosanct.
Orwell was wrong: We're not going to get fucked by a 1984 government. We're going to fuck ourselves over, as Huxley predicted. This is just going to be yet another pointless story about how not all cops are bad, and then the other side is going to screech pitifully "yes all cops are bad", and this cycle is going to repeat itself another thousand fucking times.
So as amusing a topic as this is to discuss, the fact of the matter is, I made the IQ joke fully well knowing that 100 is the median average. Because our median average is
frustratingly retarded. It doesn't matter what you believe, for every one rational thinker in your camp, there's gonna be at least 10 screeching idiots that follow along.