Stephen Fry Twitter - Depression

So Mr Fry is without doubt a very nice man, thoughtful at times, intelligent, sometimes witty although often over complicates his humour and doesn't just say something instinctive so it feels contrived but certainly reasonably witty yet he is annoying... why?

He has announced to the world he suffers from bi-polar, he has done shows about depression does that truly really help anyone. It is a problem that people have, that is difficult and challenging as he mentioned Churchill had it but didn't he get on with life. He didn't tell people, is it right that we put everything in front of people, doesn't that tend to make us feel sorry for ourselves, doesn't it make us more likely to accept it?

Someone is being mean to him, Christ Churchill had depression and led the country against the Nazis come on Stephen don't slide into self pity. Am i being too hard i don't know.

What bothers me most about Stephen is jealousy, he has travelled around the world, he is free, he has money, he can make movies, he can act, he can write, he can read, he can influence people yet what does he do? What does he truly do? He worries about himself and his depression. I say Stephen get on with it. You are incredibly lucky go write a book, go make a film, don't leave twitter because people are being mean, do it because you have a brain and should be writing something meaningful, you are a decent human being with a seriously good brain do something with meaning, then perhaps you will feel better.

Depressed - The BBC, State of the World and Marx

So it is with some sadness that the reality of the situation confronts me. Humans we are intrinsically selfish and self serving. Remove some of the fierce structure of religion and deep seated moral training from childhood and we revert to type, we are fundamentally selfish. The BBC, employers of vast numbers of highly educated liberal and otherwise worthy types is also a centre for massive abuse of public money, where the acquisition of personal comfort and wealth has become an obsession.

They exploit every legal loophole to prevent the public from knowing the true extent of waste. Presenters, who are supposed to be defenders of democracy, have their snouts in the trough of tax payers money. They are one and the same of as the fat cats that sit atop the city banks plundering every last penny, overcharging customers exploiting their oligopoly status.

There is no god of that i truly believe, but is a godless valueless society able to function when the rich or those in a position to be self serving exploit the system so brazenly and extensively. When our most educated, those with access to perhaps the most liberal and broad ranging education in history are so self serving then is Richard Dawkins truly correct. We are a selfish animal and we need some common values and a necessary obligation of duty, perhaps we do need religion.

We have lost that obligation now, and our elite exploit it in every walk of life, in every position irrespective of background and education. The elite at the BBC are no better than the Eastern European mafia, or the city investment bosses, they are one and the same self serving homo sapiens. Those at the BBC may be able to justify it much more and feel they are serving the public by going to war zones, and some will be very brave and heroic, most though are simply after number one and exploiting the system for every last penny they can. The scale and ruthlessness are on a different scale to that of the Mafia but in one way it is far worse the scale of their mendacity, self denial and pomposity.

Mr Dawkins you should write a book titled the Selfish Ape as we truly are and Marx you are wrong as you fundamentally misjudged human nature. We are the naked, selfish ape, held together by the most fragile of means, by the force of our belief, religion and national structures. These are prone to crumble and break and we revert to our fundamentally selfish, self seeking nature and this happens in every environment, culture and country. There we are stripped naked. We are capable of amazing acts of sacrifice when there are strong bonds of loyalty, belief, and conviction, when these disappear we are not left with much and no amount of education seems to prevent our worst traits from dominating.

A matter of intelligence.

What is intelligence, we think every day and we are labeled in one way or another people continually make judgments, but around us the world never quite matches up to our thoughts and ideas. Clever people do stupid things, dumb people make some astute observations. There are broadly several types as far as i can see:

- Memory and the ability to memorize details.

- Ability to to see through detail and pick out the pertinent points in an argument.

- Wisdom the ability to learn from experience and apply it to your decision making.

- Ability to digest a complex problem with many sides and facets and work through and apply techniques of analysis to it such as mathematics.

We simplify to make the world understandable, to allow us to function and progress, we ignore pain and suffering to allow ourselves to move on, i live in relative comfort in a European country whilst in the world people are being tortured murdered and killed.

So i read about scientific solutions to fix the problems of global warming they are talking about putting a hose spewing volcanic particles into the atmosphere, apparently some guy who Bill Gates thinks is the most intelligent guy he ever met... well that already shows a crass lack of wisdom, how many humans do we truly meet who have all the intelligence skills, zero or close to zero and they are never the types who spent years at large corporations.

Geeks should be praised for their contribution to humanity and that men in sheds have given us what we have today, yet let's never forget that the most difficult skill to acquire is wisdom and that the problem which afflicts highly intelligent individuals is arrogance, they sometimes don't step back and reflect.

So the most complex system on planet earth they think they can fix with a hosepipe into the atmosphere, perhaps they have created the cheapest weapon of war, it ignores some basic ideas. Global warming is part of the equation which involves, population, consumption, declining resources... idiots, bloody idiots... damn these highly educated Harvard types and their inability to know their own limitations, their lack of understanding of the limits of their own intelligence.....

Thanks for the contribution guys but criticize what it lacks, show us also why it is a bad idea as well, put both sides, talk about the whole problem, how are you going to solve population, declining food stocks.. good start but must do better and acknowledge in some ways you lack wisdom and go and see James Lovelock.......