ARE WE CAUGHT UP IN THE AGE OF STUPIDITY?
- Hans Ebert
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
It's kinda irritating when discovering the hard way that those working for me or with me know nothing about music- and I mean nothing- because pretty much everything I do is built around the magic of music.
It's a Duh moment and not unlike being a "creative" in advertising but not bothering to learn how to write good copy nor having an interest in what makes a piece of communication brilliant.
It's also probably why some had no interest in watching the "Mad Men" television series and following the career path of the complex character named Don Draper, brilliantly portrayed by Jon Hamm.
I'm talking here about having that inquisitive mind and always making the effort, plus taking the initiative to be better than you are purely for the personal love of inhaling knowledge, because one was taught or saw how knowledge can be used and what a powerful tool it is in life.
This is especially true when something like this comes naturally through osmosis and is not more Wikipedia wisdom, or where, these days, the "thoughts" of many are coming straight from ChatGPT and AI.
Sorry, but to me, this is cheating, and if there are salaried staff using AI for work and presenting this as their own thinking, why have them on the payroll?
All this is why I believe that we have entered The Duh Age Of The Stupid People. They, however, don't see this.
Some truly believe that they are multi talented and indispensable when we all should know by now that no one is ever indispensable.
Yeah, The Age Of The Stupid People is upon us, earthlings,?and it's not going away anywhere anytime soon.
Stupid is as stupid does, and if never having been brought up this way, there's the possibility of being dumb fluxed by this weird melange we have today of arrogance mixed with ignorance and those suffering from this condition trying all manner of ways to hide their deficiencies- and stupidity.
When it comes to music, I can challenge almost anyone on the history of contemporary music, and realised long ago that not everyone knows the work of Peggy Lee, Ahmed Jamahl and drummers like Steve Gadd or Russ Kunkel. They have no interest in knowing about any of them and which I perfectly understand.
Where I get close to being somewhat annoyed is when those who wish to be seen as "creative musicians" have no idea who Pharrell Williams is, have never even heard a million selling track like "Happy" and have no idea about the entrepreneur's creative work with Louis Vuitton and Lego.
Some of us have spent almost all of our lives fine-tuning and trying to improve our craft because we take pride in being part of the global creative community and don't need to con ourselves into thinking we are not who we are.
Deep?
Maybe this is because there's a big part of us that despised cheats in schools and didn't grow up to work with those who are not worthy of gainful employment?
With more and more companies and governments becoming AI driven and businesses feeling the economic downturn, it has come down to cutting corners and pretty much everything being on Remote.
It doesn't exactly take an Einstein to realise that this is going to create such a whacked out new world order where the humans will probably end up being like bit players in a Gary Larson cartoon featuring Neanderthals.
Who knows? Seriously though, get smart. And always keep it real.
Copyright © Hans Ebert May 2026
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