Supporting evidence for my hypothesis:

• The writers of second season of Heroes are so incompetent that they have managed to make me retrospectively hate the first season, which I had originally quite enjoyed. The basic premise for Heroes season 2 is that all the characters forget everything they learned from the first season and run about behaving like utter douchebags. They get angry at the wrong things, they trust the wrong people, they forget to use their powers at crucial times. It is so dumb it makes the later seasons of the X-Files seem like high art.
• Sherri Shepherd is co-host of a US television show, and yet she is so unbelievably stupid that she believes Christianity predates everything and doesn’t know whether or not the Earth is flat.
• The advertising I see here in New Zealand seems to consistently need to have narration added, leading me to believe that we are all so stupid that we can’t understand subtext* And now there’s a service which lets you bypass the actual content and just watch ads online for “mint dollars” STUPID!
• Publishers of most webcomics tend to provide RSS feeds without images and so even though I try to subscribe, I’ll never notice their new comics when they update. Apparently it hasn’t occurred to them to at least provide a preview image, and I can only assume this is because they too are morons.
• Feature stickers on big screen televisions in consumer electronic stores which betray the complete technical ignorance of the staff. Full HD Ready 1024 + 76 DPI!

• Atheism makes people do bad things
• Astrology is useful
• Bumblebees fly despite the fact that science says it is impossible
• God created man and all the animals in more or less the forms we know today– meaning evolution is just a giant atheistic conspiracy to discredit the teachings of the bible
• Aliens have visited the Earth and the governments have been covering it up
• John Edward can talk to dead people, learning all about the initials and favorite nick-nacks of loved ones
• Uri Geller can bend spoons with his mind
• Homeopathy is more than a placebo
• 9/11 was an inside job
• People will go to hell if they don’t embrace the one correct religion
• Reincarnation allows people to live multiple lives (but only if they are historically interesting)
• Everything happens for a reason (ie events are part of a grand plan, rather than a logical sequence of cause and effect)
• Crop circles are created by Aliens (or some other non-human agency)
• Oil companies bought out and covered up the technology to run a car on water
• Vaccinating children can cause autism
• Spontaneous Human Combustion (ok so maybe people don’t still believe in this, but it was big in the 80′s [CORRECTION: Yes they do apparently])
• Global warming isn’t happening
• Global warning is happening but it has nothing to do with us, and is in fact a Marxist conspiracy to destroy free-market capitalism, the greatest force for good that has ever existed

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* Some examples of moronic advertising in New Zealand:

• Stupid Rexona Antiperspirant ad… first version of the ad was kind of cute, boy meets girl, montage of shots of them dating, spoiled only by the firehose spray of sweat coming out from under his arms. Second version has girl describing to camera how sweat would spray from under his arms, totally detroying the whole visual gag by referring to it directly.
• Stupid Euro Chocolates ad… again, first run was at least slightly stylish, and had no dialogue– The whole story was told in images and music. Sensual young woman comes home to run-down apartment building and her mere presence appears to bring life back to her fellow residents, who suddenly feel like dancing and singing and shagging, and her magic comes from eating brand X chocolate. The second run added a stupid voiceover, explaining that this was exactly what was going on, because we were clearly too goddam thick to work it out for ourselves.
• Stupid “V” energy drink ad… these ads suck anyway, but adding a stupid sniggering narrator telling us what is going on makes them even worse. One of these animated commercial spots begins with a bouncy-titted girl crying hysterically while her skeezy boyfriend glowers at her from across the room, no doubt annoyed that she won’t stop bawling when all he did was give the stupid bitch a slap. Hahaha.
• Stupid radio contest/campaign… the prize is to live rent-free for a year, and somehow it is implied this will lead to bikini clad women cramming into your house to be showered by trampolining midgets, because apparently having subsidized rent for a year makes you a magnet for this kind of thing. This is a campaign developed by morons, for morons. But then, it’s hosted by a commercial FM radio station, so no frikkin surprises there. Actually this is not narration related but is just so unbelievably stupid I felt I had to squeeze it in here, and the ad for this campaign was voiced by the same chortling fucknut who does the aforementioned V ad, which is why I thought of it just now.