Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwaymans gun.