ALL THE STUPID PEOPLE - Parody of Eleanor Rigby | Don Caron
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2020
- Written and performed by Don Caron | Executive producer: Sally Headley
Came across a Wiki about a guy named Carlo M. Cipolla who developed a list that he called The Fundamental Laws of Stupidity. He died it 2000 at the age of 78 but his theory has recently taken on new meaning.
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LYRICS to STUPIDLY BIGLY
NSF Study
One out of four think the sun, daily orbits the earth
for what it’s worth
There's the Flat-Earthers
Swearing the earth is a disc you can fall off the edge
So they allege
All the stupid people
Where do they all come from?
All the stupid people
Where do they all belong?
Man in the White House
doesn’t believe in the science in front of his face
it's a disgrace
People believe him
even when death is the cost of ignoring the facts
He never retracts
All the stupid people
Where do they all come from?
All the stupid people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the stupid people
Ah, look at all the stupid people
Human condition
No one’s exempt from effects of the brain’s fatal flaw
A natural law
Forming opinions
based on beliefs that are carried from birth to the grave
No one is saved
All the stupid people (ah, look at all the stupid people)
Where do we all come from?
All the stupid people (ah, look at all the stupid people)
We may not be here long.
SOURCE MATERIAL
"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles released on their 1966 album "Revolver" and as a single with "Yellow Submarine". It was written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney.
The song continued the transformation of the Beatles from a mainly rock and roll- and pop-oriented act to a more experimental, studio-based band. With a string octet arrangement by George Martin and striking lyrics about loneliness, "Eleanor Rigby" broke sharply with popular music conventions, both musically and lyrically. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic cites the band's "singing about the neglected concerns and fates of the elderly" on the song as "just one example of why the Beatles' appeal reached so far beyond the traditional rock audience".
Paul McCartney came up with the melody of "Eleanor Rigby" as he experimented on his piano. However, the original name of the protagonist that he chose was not Eleanor Rigby, but Miss Daisy Hawkins. The singer-composer Donovan reported that he heard McCartney play it before it was finished, with completely different lyrics. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song:
I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head ... "Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church". I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name "Father McCartney" came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name "McKenzie".
Others have posited that "Father McKenzie" refers to "Father" Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall.
McCartney said he came up with the name "Eleanor" from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. "Rigby" came from the name of a store in Bristol, "Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers", which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time, Jane Asher, act in The Happiest Days of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, "I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. 'Eleanor Rigby' sounded natural."
'The problem with the world, is that the intelligent people are full with doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.' -Charles Bukowski
Dunning-Kruger Effect
@@sigspearthumb3249 Another way to reference it is Cipolla's 5 laws of human stupidity,
1) It is generally and greatly underestimated how many stupid people there are in the world.
2)The probability of an individual being ignorant is independent from any other personality trait they possess.
3) THW STUPID PERSON IRRATIONALLY PERFORMS ACTIONS THAT ENDANGER THEMSELVES OR ANY OTHER NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS, WHILE NOT IN ANY WAY RECEIVING ANY BENEFIT.
4) People who are not stupid underestimate the harm stupid people do.
5) STUPID PEOPLE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity." -- Yeats, "The Second Coming"
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
"
Isaac Asimov
Good point well made.
wow... he said that in 1980... and it's truer than ever.
@@phiksit Asimov was one switched on dude.
I admit, I have not researched this:
But I would be willing to bet ours is the only culture where "brainiac", "smarty", and "Einstein"--used unironically--are employed as insults.
If there are other countries where referencing a person's high level of intelligence is considered derogatory, I'd lay money they are heavily influenced by American culture.
@@negascoot23 It's a sad reflection on our times.
"I see stupid people. They're everywhere. And they don't know they're stupid."
That's because they're too stupid to know they're stupid. That's the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@@paul9156c I'm pretty sure he was referencing the movie the 6th sense mate. It went right over your head.
Sadly, your right! What is even more discouraging is they don't care.
"We may not be here long." Words to heed.
It is one thing to see something in front of you, and not know what it is.
Stupidity is seeing something in front of you, knowing what it is, and refusing to admit it's there.
That sounds like Trump for sure.
No that's ignorance, as in ignoring a thing or things. Stupidity is the defiance of knowledge. They can, and DO, hear the information, than take the stance of a two year old simply saying "NO!" to any knowledge that contradicts their emotion based views. It is defiance, proudly I might add, not ignorance...
Practice makes perfection.
That is being delusional not stupid. The two can be related and very often are, but not necessarily.
I believe the Carlin corollary states ' you know how smart the average person is? ...well half of them are dumber than that'... something like that anyway.
Change “smart” to “stupid” and you come closer to what he said.
"Take a look around you and notice how dumb the average person is. Now realize that half of them are stupider than that."
well pretty close eh? but you knew what meant....!
Just for clarity's sake, I recall the words of the greatest standup philosopher ever to be "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now realize half of them are stupider than THAT."
@@UTubeHandlesSuck Lol-- "While George is smart-- He never applied himself"!!!!! (Sister Mary Marial")
My mother, who was a young teen in Nazi Germany had this advice for us "Watch out for the stupid people, especially when they get together." That advice has guided my through life - and the penguins of Madagascar who said "Just smile and wave."
Every now and then, the stupid people get together and kill the smart ones. Three examples, the Germans, the Russians and the Chinese.
Another way of saying " Never UNDERESTIMATE the power of STUPID PEOPLE...IN LARGE GROUPS OR NUMBERS"!-- my Grandmother was Prime Minister Friedrich Eberts NIECE. I'm CERTAIN MY great Grand- Uncle " Freddy"( lol).:definitely turning in his grave more modernly..with Germany SWWINNGING politically to the farther RIIIGHHHT!--- IMAGINE GERMANY!(??).=WHOLLY COMMUNIST- SOCIALIST REPUBLIC...LIKE the former Soviet Union since BEGINNING WWII??!!= LIFE FOR GERMANS IN GERMANY SOOO. WOULD'VE SUUUCKED FOR MANNY DECADES NOW...SHAMEFUL!- HOW PEOPLE SOMETIMES SEEMINGLY SELECTIVELY WANT TO FORGET THEIRRR OWNNN HISTORIES...ESPECIALLY IN RE: WHAT MADE THEM GREAT/ WHAT MADE THEM LAME!!-
It's so true, while history repeats and most of the people don't learn from history....
Outstanding comment, John-Peter! Your Mother was a very wise lady. I'd also like to add that it's the overly confident, aggressive bullies that we need to be cautious of. They are the most dangerous at all levels of life... whether it's on the school playground or in high government positions. An added note: I too am of German descent. Take good care. 😔
I had a pen pal from Thailand as a kid. Such a wonderful friend. We dreamed of meeting in person. In the 1970's an uprising happened in Thailand and the peasants started killing all the professors at the University, as being Communists and Marxists. Her father was a professor there. I never heard from her again.
Unfortunately accurate.
Very sad but oh so true. Great song as usual
I agree with u 💯 %
What yr was the original
@@JohnJones-ej1ux the original, Eleanor Rigby, was released in 1966.
I have been saying this for decades. "Stupid people are DANGEROUS!" HOW TRUE, and they all voted for......
You mentioned flat earthers but lets not forget the other three horsemen: antivaxers, young earth creationists and climate change deniers.
Yes here they come, the 4 STUPID horseman, see only evil, speak only evil, hear nothing but evil, and make up all manner of falsehoods against thy neighbor. Yep they're here.
Heartbreakingly true.
Stupidity kills. Just not soon enough. Thanks, Don. This really articulates how I feel.
I think not only you, but you likely have a line up behind you. I feel so sorry for the good people in the U.S. Take heart and pray for change. Be well and stay safe.
@@leoniedeyoung8086
Thanks, we need ALL the help we can get. Living with STUPIDITY is really killing us...take care.👍😫
That is why I am truly rooting for Covid-19. It will have to hit STUPID a lot harder than SMART. Yaaaay Darwinism!!!
The sad part is stupid people quite often kill others around them before they realize their foolishness.
@@leoniedeyoung8086 Forget about praying, that's never got anyone anywhere! Planned action based on knowledge and understanding is what's needed. So for so very many US Americans it involves something very strange to them: Reading and Thinking. And no, learning about socialism (social justice) isn't dangerous, but can be an eye-opener!!
The earth can’t be flat, otherwise cats would knock everything off the edge.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Good one!! 😄😄😄🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
😂😂😂😂
Can you imagine. Lions and tigers ( big cats) having a contest. Bet I can knock that elephant over the edge before you do.
And just where do you think all your missing socks have gone?
"Some people try to hide their ignorance, and others open their mouth and dispel all doubt." -my mom.
Uh um, was Mark Twain your mother???
@@shonnyNOR "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity."
~ Abraham Lincoln (source: the Internet)
quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt
Abraham Lincoln? Mark Twain? Biblical Proverb? Maurice Switzer? Arthur Burns? John Maynard Keynes? Confucius? Anonymous?
@@moviesignsol I always heard it attributed to Samuel Clemens lol
@@nickthedick3742 Stupid people will soon be quoting you. And other stupid people will soon be quoting them. Etc, ect, etc. Good job! LMFAO Of course however, much "stupidity" is a tool used by the greedy to get what they want away from you and me when there is no reason it should be theirs.
@@nickthedick3742 Another name for much "stupidity" is GASLIGHTING.
We wouldn't mind them if they weren't dragging the rest of us down with them.
You can take steps to avoid stupid people in your personal life.
Sometimes (not always possible) you can take steps to avoid stupid people in your work life.
You cannot avoid sharing the same planet with stupid people.
@@antonystringfellow5152 Family members you don't get to pick either.
@@pheresy1367 Too true ! As the saying goes, we can choose our friends, but we can't choose our families. I wish it were not so.
My granddaughter looked up the flat-earther website AND it actually said (a couple of years ago) that they had many members AROUND THE GLOBE! Great parody about stupid people and there are more than enough in the US.
I used to just scoff and forgive.
Now I’m noticing how many there are, and how much they must really like Kool-Aid. ☠️
We are in trouble.
😢😷
Yeah, Parody Project has really fallen hard. Ah for the days when they were still centrist and satirical.
@@ambika69 there is no such thing as "centrist". you can't be halfway between a fascist and a nonfascist.
@@thomasneal9291 That is probably the dumbest, most childish outlook you could have. There is always a middle ground.
@@thomasneal9291 It's like being only half pregnant LOL Peace Thomas and don't feed Larry, Curly and Moe LOL
@@pontiuspilot5887 Soy-tanly!!! Well said!!!
I used to have a bumper sticker, "Ignorance should be painful!" we are, unfortunately, living that right now. 😷😱😷
Always.... SO ON POINT!!!! Congrats...another WINNER!!!!!
That parody was hugely entertaining...lol thanks Don!
Another greatest hit!
😄👏👏👏👏👍👍💕💕
OMG!!!!!! I already loved you - but as one of the world's biggest unreconstructed Beatlemaniacs, I am howling with love and laughter at this! Macca should see this for sure :-D
And Ringo too !
Sir, I am in awe of your talent! Where have you been hiding? You are gifted! Gifted!!! I should already know you! Your music is priceless!
Perfect!!!!!!!!!
Uncle Bob says: "Never argue with an Idiot. They will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience and perseverance.". Parody Project Rules!!!
I LOVE IT!!
This is one of your best!
Just came back to get the URL to send this to a friend, and noticed your long notes in the video description box. I was in grade school when Eleanor Rigby came out and it became part of the soundtrack of my life, along with all the other Beatles songs as they came along. I love that you included this historical note here. I particularly enjoyed the 'Eleanor Rigby' running subplot in the movie "Yesterday," where Jack Malik kept trying to remember the lyrics.
Don, your genius never ceases to amaze!
** instantly shares video with friends**
Brilliant love it great job
Be nice if you could do the song from 1969, IN THE YEAR 25 25. But change it to The Year 20 20.
That song speaks for itself.
Sadly I feel like we're living that song right now.
Good News Week by Hedge Hoppers Anonymous too. Peace.
Zager and Evans were so prophetic in that song!!!!!
You know, as much of a bop as that song is, the message of it is regressive as all get out. Takes some ambiguous technophobia and says that God will cry because we didn't stay in the stone age.
I agree, though. Would love to hear a Don Caron parody of it for this year. Would be nothing short of epic, I'm sure.
Wonderful!!! Terrific lyrics! I wholeheartedly agree with everything! Lovely vocals too! One of your best! 😄 👍
Hilarious yet sooo true....thank you ☮️
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or with education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin; the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and the execution is carried out automatically and without pity." - Robert A. Heinlein, 1982.
I sure hope you're wrong about the power of stupidity... But some days, I'm right there with you, shaking my head in disgust. Great parody, Don!
Just GREAT!!
Brilliant, absolutely beautiful parody, I just wish the topic didn't have to be so serious. Macca and the gang would love this.
Thanks, Don and team.
"it takes a great deal of knowledge to realize your own ignorance"
Thomas Sowell
Spot on Parody. 😃. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
One of your best, Don. Thanks again!
I almost spit out my tea 🍵 when I started to hear this tune ! Another true twisted classic parody ! The surviving Beatles are probably grimacing in pain and the dead are covering their 👂! Well done, Sir ! More of these, please ? CZcams.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR A HEALTHY WAY TO VENT MY ANGER AND FRUSTRATION WITH..........ALL THE STUPID PEOPLE......I CRY EVERY DAY FOR THIS TO END.... 🔔
I am with you every step of the way crying all the time.
This is so funny because it's the stone cold truth!! 😂😂😂
And Truth Hurts
Out of the park, Don!
Spot on!
Yes olde dunning-Kruger effect in action too no doubt. T'other day I watched an interview with Mr. Dunning, breaks your heart even as it explains a lot. I've long been searching for the perfect mirror, likely magic, that can help me see my own blind spots n stuff. In my own defense, I get thoroughly humiliated when I humiliate myself and try to learn, even maybe abstract the lesson. It also makes me perhaps too likely to suffer other fools, in light of my own foolishness in lieu of a more healthy n effective response. Thankfully you're teaching me tactical humor. I thank you as do my friends, if not my fellow fools who used to find awkward sympathy from me!
Don Caron is the only person I know of who has successfully rhymed “Dunning-Krüger” in a parody song (his “The Gambler”: czcams.com/video/sQREBQzVhzw/video.html ).
@@COMALiteJ lol. I had to see how. Good one
@@COMALiteJ I know, right? The man's a genius. I can feel my own IQ rise (or perhaps ignorance quotient fall) every time I watch one of these. Even if it's for the dozenth time. I nominate him and his crew and fellow parodsters national treasures!
Just saw this Video on November 29! Compliments from an Indonesian fan! Its contents are so very right --- but deeply saddening.
That was awesome! Thanks for the smile. Here, have one back 😁.
Well done sir.
Well done
Good that they made this one.❤️😂😂😂😂
Sound: Great. Vocals: Almost like the original. Lyrics: sad, but true (which is even more sad).
Excellent. Didn't make me cry this time, thanks.
Ear worms continue and I won't be able to hear Elanor Rigby without thinking about Stupid People... I hope Paul appreciates the lyrical modifications. He is NOT a stupid person.
It got shared on Twitter. Not that anyone follows me or reads my tweets, but I do make an effort.
Frankly, this one may deserve a Grammy.
Well Now! That wasn't stupid that was fukin brilliant!!!!!
Good parody of a great Beatles' song!
Gee who ever heard a word such as “bigly”?!?!
jo bloggs you’re merely wrong--see I was hoping someone would respond that they knew the president said it!!! Try again--search for videos, right here on CZcams, you’ll find he does NOT say, “bigly”-he says, “big league”!
jo bloggs czcams.com/video/meNOKSyDFRk/video.html
@@kathrynbraun2073 Honey, if you're hearing two words when Trump says "bigly", then you need to put a new battery in your hearing aid and/or find something new to smoke 'cause what you're using ain't doin' it.
And besides, we all know that Trump has "so many words, ... all the best words." Unfortunately, he is not capable of stringing them together in coherent sentences. Sad.
@@womanofsubstance8735
Perfectly said. 😉👍
Woman of Substance go away with your hate, if you can’t even admit CNN concluded our President Trump is saying, “big league”, well I shall cast no more pearls
👍😎 One more reason to be thankful... that I subscribed!
Goosebumps! That was crushingly true. How do you do this? Bravo
Very well done!
Stupid people think they are intelligent and that they know everything. Ironically, the key to being intelligent is realizing that you don't know everything, that you need to constantly challenge your own assumptions and that there is always more you can learn.
You are SO good!
Sir, I love all your music, but this one is just my favorite. You are speaking out facts!
Spot on. Would love to see Donnie see this on twitter. LOL
Very good as usual! And you're correct saying that "stupid" people are dangerous! I've dealt with my share of them. Thank you for the upload!
I have been singing this song for freaking decades. But it has never been so obvious as it is now.
Thank you for all your songs !
NAILED it!!!
I've often thought the stupid people are like a drunk driver who survives a fatal car crash they caused. The stupid survive with "dumb luck" on their side, while killing off the thoughtful intellectual who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
The movie "Idiocracy" highlights this phenomenon as well as anything I've ever seen.
George Carlin - " Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ”
yup. Exactly.
What a Fool Believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away. Doobie Brothers
Some people think that hydrogen is the most abundant thing in the universe, others might guess it's cat hair, but stupidity is the most abundant thing in our universe.
We are all hopelessly stupid in some ways, and magnificently brilliant in others. The trick is recognizing the difference.
Brilliant Heartbreaking Truths 🎶💔🎶 Thanks for making me smile
And daily ~ this just intensifies exponentially in horrifying reality. 😞🎶😢☮️🥰
Excellent.
One of my very favourites. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Ron White said so clearly, "You Can't Fix Stupid".
You've done it again!! Bravo!!
Wonderful, i'm stupid at least several times a week.
I've always been a news junkie, pretty much any source EXCEPT Faux News. I especially liked the Bill Maher show for snarky satire. It has recently gotten to the point that ANY political news was just DEPRESSING for what should be apparent reasons. I have been on antidepressants for a long time. I also increased my dosage several months ago because my depression was getting worse. Well, that actually didn't help.
Satire 'news', for me started with Randy Rainbow and Betty Bowers. Brilliant! So with upvotes, CZcams pointed me to Parody Project et al. So this genre has been around for more than a decade, and only NOW I run into it!
So the upshot of all of this is, I realized that me taking antidepressants doesn't help because
'me' taking meds doesn't affect the people that are the problem! With that insight, I QUIT taking 'happy pills' and feel better than I have in ages!
CC to Bill Maher, Betty Bowers and Randy Rainbow
Exactly! I'm not the one who thinks a virus responds to my beliefs! I'm not the one breaking laws of physics by claiming masks don't help! Etc., etc., ...
This is not about me. I don't have a role. Me focusing on myself and working on myself will not help.
Thanks so much for the supprot and inspiration.
Check out Andrew Duffer if you haven't. If you like Betty Bower you'll prob like him.
@@ak5659 Thanks for ref.
Love your work bruh
Don, you're not one of them!
So far only 267 of them have reacted!! Good job!
!!!The absolute best!!!🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️
I've often wondered where all the stupid people come from. And where I'd like to send them back to. Love that Beatles tune. Thank you for another great song. You really helped us get through trying times. And I do mean trying times.🤥😵
Great song and video !! Sad
there are so many of them !!
So Perfect!!
A stupid person inflicts loss on others to gain feeling of power, that's the real reason.
This was Fning BRILLIANT!!!! I laughed so hard, I think I pissed on my myself; oh wait I did. Oh well, it was worth it. "Parody Projects", never heard of these guys, but I'm Subscribing now. I'm just dying to share it with my Trump Buddies--hey, don't judge me too harshly, there aren't that many Liberal Democrats in AZ, so I grew up with these guys. But I'm pleasantly surprised that AZ actually voted for Biden! Who would've thought a state where everyone owns a gun (including us Liberals) would vote for Biden? There may be Hope for us yet!
Lincoln said you could fool some of the people all of the time-but he never said how many.
Now we know-about 40% This all has actually been a slight step forward for political science.
According to my research, the 42% of Americans who still want Trump as President consist of ~38.5% who are hard-core McCarthyist racists & morons.
The remaining ~3.5% are self-serving rich folk pulling the strings of the first group.
Sixth law: stupidity is only for others.
" We can't fix stupid! We can learn to expose stupidity with truth and sometimes with biting satire.Please keep your satirical songs coming. Your songs always help me make it through these difficult days. The songs expose stupidity, ignorance, lies, prejudice, graft and corruption in our society while seeking to light our way towards a "More Perfect Union."
👍🏻
so awesome!
Its Thanksgiving day ,hope you are still alive to read this ,Don.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin
Outstanding!!!
I want to support you, but Patreon assigns the date on which my donation will be made, and I can't change it to a date that suits me.
That's what they do - Kind of sucks but Patreon is Patreon.
No problem. Don will except cash or open checks very gladly. Shall I give you my---Ooops!---his address? *;-)*
_Edit:_ A typo.
Budgeting solved that.
There is a decades old saying about having too much month left at the end of the budget.
Even smart people can have false beliefs. And, that's just as dangerious as stupidity.
Can I thumbs up more than once? Okay, that was a stupid question.