This is meant to invoke stupidity and incompetence. It's a question of stupidity, incompetence and corruption. Stupidity and arrogance are personified in the story's protagonist. This is why, for all his stupidity, bigotry and self-centered quality, we cannot hate Homer. Pinky also has shown signs of intelligence despite his supposed childish stupidity. Even Brooke thought it crass stupidity. The headbanging stupidity, the loveliness, the craziness of it. It further embodies physical power, excessivity, ugliness, stupidity, as well as sacredness. A people, my dear fellow, of quite extraordinary stupidity and immorality. Probably some of them are actuated by nothing worse than stupidity. They are given human qualities such as wit, humor, slyness and even stupidity. I was offended by the stupidity more than anything. Never had a President speculated more stupidly on the stupidity of the masses. And there are far more drastic consequences to Homer's stupidity. She believes that learning is the key to opposing indignity, stupidity, and poverty.