Society?!

People are really dumb.

Actually, that statement is wrong. Every person alone isn’t dumb; in fact, people can be really smart as individuals. It’s society that’s the problem.

Humans have somehow managed to create a society in which value is based on some arbitrary property, like the size of a house or the size of one’s brain or even the number of likes on a profile picture. This classification system isn’t something that develops with age—in fact, high school is arguably the biggest perpetrator of this structure. Walk through the halls during passing time and you’ll see many different groups, ranging from “the nerds” to “the jocks,” from “the popular kids” to “the Goths.”  Somehow, the environment around us makes us separate ourselves into different groups. This in itself isn’t the problem, because different friend groups are a natural and beneficial part of society; the problem is when each group decides the other groups are worthless and isolates itself from the others, effectively creating its own mini-society. These social orders only cause problems within society, instead of helping it—because every individual is encouraged to find their own niche and socialize exclusively within it, people miss out on a lot of productive and enjoyable relationships.

Instead of isolating ourselves within just our own friend groups, we should learn to work together as one community. But first, we need to stop thinking about ourselves and instead focus on the bigger picture.

This person is probably just dumb.