i. Introduction

Thousands of years ago, a bunch of people got together around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and decided they would start Western Civilization, largely because they had no television or diet cola.  Although the eventual emergence of Hanson would lead some to conclude otherwise, it has generally been agreed ever since that long ago day that Western Civilization was, indeed, a good idea. It took some time to get things going, because there was an awful lot of cleaning to do, but eventually there were enough intense-looking men in black tunics that Literature was finally invented to give them something to do.  Some of these men later invented Philosophy as a joke, but a lot of people didn't get it and it just sort of perpetuated itself through the years.

Moronism is superior to all other philosophies, because it doesn't even try to make sense of anything.  On the contrary, it abandons from the outset any effort to understand anything.  It embraces the obvious and ignores the complex.  No other philosophy does this! 

ii. Support for the Ridiculous Hypothesis of the Introduction

The following extracts from the great works of Western Civilization, presented pretty much in chronological order, trace the thread of Moronic philosophy through the ages.  Since anyone who's ever taken a class at school knows that all you have to do to prove something is to quote an authority figure, these quotes prove the validity of Moronism.  The great thing about Moronism, however, is that it doesn't care if its validity is proven.

Some of these great thinkers sound a little angry or disgusted.   This is too bad, and probably the result of their having taken themselves too seriously.  The secret of Moronism (for the next five minutes, anyway) is never taking anything too seriously.