They say that dog does not eat dog. Most probably they are right. That is why a detector of stupidity should not be a machine because machines are stupid so a machine instead of finding silly machines will try to hide them. At least complex and sophisticated machines. So the DOS (Detector Of Stupidity) should be a very simple machine. Extremely simple machine, so simple that even not deserving to be defined as a machine. And of course not automatic, absolutely not. It should be operated manually. In fact it should be a kind of spectacles. Spectacles can hardly be considered a machine. They are a device for looking, watching, seeing. Good Light Apparatus Smartly Supporting Exact Seeing.

Here is the proposal.

Let’s take letters D and O and S, both capital and small. The size, typeface, thickness, colour and all other features are not important, no rigours, like those in the sample below, are necessary. Let’s join them, plait or interlace. As we like. Let’s free our imagination. But don’t forget about the aesthetics, please... Then let’s cut out the white areas between the lines. Or the lines. Thus we will get special glasses and place them on a piece of printed text. Move this device chaotically, in any direction, looking carefully at what will appear in the cuts-out. Sooner or later we will find some stupid things. There’s no doubt about that.

If we find cutting out too difficult, or even impossible, then we can print the designed pattern on a transparent tracing paper.

Of course, we can use this device to look around. However it is not recommended to look in the mirror or any reflecting surfaces, though, telling and writing the truth, this is what we should begin with.







The sifting method is also worth recommending. We should build a net detector – well, it can be called a sieve detector, too. A sieve, or a net, is not a machine, nor is a sieve-detector, so we can trust it. We are the ones who will make it, and we ourselves will sort the wheat from the chaff.

At first we have to find all letters d and o and s in the lectures on anoisiology. The position of the letters on the pages should be kept intact. We will have a dozen or more such “compositions” depending on the quantity of text on one page. All the compositions should be put on one page overlapping each other. Thus we will create the filtering net. A silly sieve. Now we can “pour” through it any text we would like to filter.

Well, that’s it.