I class in this number, idiotism, imbecility, dulness.
Moderation in war is imbecility.
Then of course there is the crowning imbecility of the agricultural system, which actually grows food to fill storage warehouses instead of feeding the starving people.
Could imbecility go further than that?
Surely we have reached the point of imbecility when the arguments are deserted amid the and pros and cons of the old, failed and outdated two-party system.
As a rule it is a tax on imbecility for the general run of stuff that we see produced in newspapers, but that is nothing to us.
I have always maintained that they are obscure to the point of imbecility.
To think such a feat capable of accomplishment within, say, the lifetime of the present generation, is evidence either of childishness or imbecility.
