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Stupidity only have one face 
Human
You can't fight stupidity
Nor can you defeat or 
turn it off. 

It spreads its violence
Grins at you in every dark corner of society
And there's world wide shortage 
But not of the ones
Who willingly open their frontal cortex
and gets raped by the world's collected
stupidity.

It knows no limits
travels faster than Earth through space
And can make an entire Nation
shrink into one shabby apartment
Where idiocy flow down the walls 
and urges to be seen
demands to be raised to the skies and loved 
by everyone.

Poem "Dumheten" by swedish poet Bruno K Öijer, 
--> free translation from Swedish to English.

Who made the swan and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean –
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down –
who is grazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face,
now she snaps her wings open and floats away

I don’t know exactly what prayer is
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down into the grass
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The Summer Day By Mary Oliver