Extinction Level Idiocy
When an entity (can be an organism or a society or a ...) starts exhibiting behavior wholly enabled by excess that simultaneously reduces the level of (what one might call) progressive entropy available to the entity then that entity is doomed to failure.
A behavioral detractor that causes an species to devolve, creating a feedback loop of degradation and thus inevitable extinction.
A behavioral detractor that causes an species to devolve, creating a feedback loop of degradation and thus inevitable extinction.
That the Zeitgeist is defined more by the pending release of a white iPhone than mass starvation in Somalia is an example of extinction level idiocy on a societal level.
The high incumbency rate for members of Congress reflects an alarming level of extinction level idiocy present in the general electorate.
The high incumbency rate for members of Congress reflects an alarming level of extinction level idiocy present in the general electorate.