As a mnemonic, the “pint’s a pound” rhyme is memorable. It is also applicable in this case. I didn’t author it, I simply quoted it to show my work.

I want you to resent it. I want you to hate me for hating everything British. And I want you filthy fuckers to return the Elgin marbles. M’kay?

Sounds like Francois Tremblay.

By the way, did you ever hear the advice to debaters to “resort to abuse when argument fails”?

Naturally, I would not like to go through every day what Somalis go through. Having the UN attempt to impose one government after another on Somalia, having USA military troops slaughter civilians with impunity, having the USA send proxy fighters from Ethiopia to slaughter civilians, these are difficult to tolerate even when they happen only occasionally, rather than every few days, or every day. Calling one of the places the powers that be makes a hell on Earth so that filth like Michael can lord it over them “anarchy” isn’t a good use of the term. But they do have very good cell service.

Stupidity is the opposite of intelligence; intelligence is the capacity to learn, and thus to be stupid is to be unable to, or only poorly able to, learn. Intelligence and stupidity are distinct from being knowledgeable and being ignorant; if someone makes the same mistake repeatedly because they lack the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, then they’re ignorant (of reality), not stupid.

As for the insanity quote, it’s most likely been misattributed to Einstein, but in any case, though he was a clever physicist, and the man who convinced FDR to develop the means to incinerate hundreds of thousands of innocent people in an instant, he was no linguist.

Further, the inability to distinguish right from wrong is sociopathy which is only one particular form of insanity and therefore can not be referred to as a definition for insanity in general. Actual insanity is the inability to distinguish reality for fantasy in some form. In the case of sociopaths it’s the inability to distinguish their version of right and wrong from that of society in general.

Stupidity is merely a colloquial term for those who’s mental acuity is not quite up to snuff, so to speak. Generally it’s used to indicate someone who makes silly or ignorant errors when associating commonly known facts, such as Harry Carry (was that his name?) who was well known for malapropisms and horribly slaughtered metaphors.

The inability to learn from one’s mistakes is certainly a form of stupidity, but if that is due to an inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, then it’s insanity. Repeating the same actions and expecting different results is a lot different from failing to learn from one’s mistakes; it’s a specific form of delusion called “magical thinking”. Commonly considered a form of mental disorder/disease.

If I’m wrong about any of these things, or my innuendo, perhaps someone might link to expert definitions.

Good luck

He couldn’t have been all that smart, considering that’s the definition of stupidity, not insanity. Insanity is the inability to distinguish right from wrong; it is the inability to engage in moral reasoning. Stupidity is the inability to learn, such as from one’s own mistakes; someone who makes the same mistake over and over again, each time expecting the results to be different, is stupid by definition.

Ireland, from the mid-7th to mid-17th centuries, and half of that time was spent successfully repelling military invasions from England; the only state which was as long-lived was the Byzantine Empire. While mainland Europeans were busy burning any women with minds of their own at the stake, the Irish had full gender equality (something even modern “democracies” have thus far failed to achieve).

Iceland, from the early-10th to mid-13th centuries; it was longer-lived than most nation states, including the US. It was technically a quasi-anarchy though, following the conversion to Christianity in the 11th century. After the religious conversion, the “chieftains”, private competitive security providers and arbitrators of disputes, became fixed in number and were the only ones who could collect tithes for the Church; from that point on, no one could become a “chieftain” except by buying out an existing “chieftain”, and after a couple of centuries this led to very few chieftains, which resulted in civil war between the few who remained. They ended the civil war by ending their independence from Norway (essentially, they would’ve seen it as making the Norwegian king their sole “chieftain”). Even in their civil war though, their per capita level of violence was still much lower than it is in modern “developed” nations. Note also that it wasn’t that their society was too anarchic, but not anarchic enough, that led ultimately to its downfall; had they not accepted the reintroduction of privilege into their society, Iceland might still be an anarchy today.

Pennsylvania, in the late 16th century, for about a decade; they were always pretty close to anarchism, but for the decade-long absence of William Penn, what little formal government they had disappeared with him.

Utopia, Ohio and Modern Times, New York, in the mid-19th century, for a few decades; both were mutualist communities founded by Josiah Warren.

Somalia, mid-1990s to present. When they had government, Somalia was the worst shithole in Africa, and still getting worse every day; without government, the standard of living has steadily improved, as has average life expectancy, and not only have both improved, they’ve improved more than most other African countries in the same time period. It’s still far from perfect, but they’re already far better off than the people in neighboring countries. The violence level there normally trends downward, and only spikes whenever some foreign jackasses try to force another government on them; Somalis aren’t stupid enough to think a new government will be any less oppressive than their previous governments, so they all fight for control of it, because the only alternative is to end up a victim of it.

There are plenty of other examples, far too many for me to remember, and almost certainly several I’ve yet to hear about, so I’ll leave it at those six.