The freedom to be stupid!

We live in a democratic nation that bestows fundamental rights to every citizen irrespective of their religion, caste, economic status and...yes...Intelligence! These rights are afforded to the clever and the dumb alike. So it should not surprise us when a few fatheads misinterpret the freedom of expression and speech as their right to spew poison,  spread hatred or even to share their profound asininity with the rest of us.
Now, the quality of being a dumbass is not limited to those who are illiterate, it actually has very little to do with a lack of education. Imbecility is  rather inherently present in every human being to some extent and I think we are all supposed to make efforts to subdue the moron inside us and that is what books, knowledge and common sense are for.
Of course, there are some people, actually quite a few of late, who are intrinsically immune to intelligence, maybe due to some genetic flaw or maybe by choice and I think the later seems more likely. World leaders, scholars, the so called "saints", people who are apotheosized by their fellow humans have time and again proved that asininity spares neither king nor  jester.
Recently, students of a reputed university, whom you would expect to be intellectuals or at least intellectuals in the making, proved the point I am trying to make here. They spread the poison of hatred and flaunted their ignorance and vacuousness with much swagger,  all on the premise of freedom to speak and express. The rest of the morons followed suit, barring a very few who made some sensible comments about the issue, media, politicos, all went on to make it into a "who is the bigger dumbass" contest. Social media went berserk with blind re-shares like always. At one point, it was painfully obvious, for most, it was a gimmick, a chance to get on the trending news bandwagon.
What surprises me the most though, is that we are living in a time when human intelligence has set new benchmarks and yet the thickheads seem to be increasing in number day by day. Sadly it is a very common phenomenon, the most intelligent species on the planet actually seems to be getting dumber by the day, and the dumbest are making the most of freedom to be mind numbingly stupid and spreading like an unstoppable epidemic. If you think about it, most of the world's problems can actually be resolved with careful thinking, mindful words and a little bit of common sense.
So beware, ignore these pseudo intellectuals, these hate mongers, these poison spreaders, these utterly stupid excuse for human beings are best left to themselves. We are all better off, reading a good book or maybe even a decent blog.