Stuart Smalley/Minnesota Recount Joke Here

We are dumb. By we I mean homo sapiens. It's easy to trick ourselves and each other not simply into believing what we want to believe but also into feeling that which it'd be convenient to feel. Sometimes we cut out the middle man and pop a pill, but in this moment I'm more concerned with the little ways we can fool ourselves into altering our mood. The video below is fucking hilarious, but that shit definitely works. My version is when I'm terribly anxious and upset, I force myself to hold a stupid smile on my face and it usually chills me out a bit. Sometimes you have to accept how stupid you are in order to properly take advantage of said stupidity and use it to maintain a positive outlook in a shit world.