Among all the usual, fashion-victim stupidities, there has been one very encouraging trend in 2005: a return to first principles.
There were no rewards in life for such stupidity, and he promised himself never to fall victim to that kind of blind, wishful thinking.
The idea of applying it to children, "in fun", in a world where they are the first victims of adult stupidity, incomprehension and rage simply doesn't work as an extended joke.
And every time, the victim is blamed, stupidity wins.
His journalism, in which he championed the victims of tyranny and stupidity and "Islamofascism" (his coinage), takes its rightful place on the shelf along with that of his paradigm, Orwell.
Libby Purves, in a Times column headlined "Dimwit Andrew needs to come out fighting", argues that the "poor sap" prince is a victim of his own stupidity.
If ever there was a story to crystallise the peevishness, victim complex and plain stupidity of Ukip, it was this week's battle of the press releases between comedy act Jonny and the Baptists and Ukip deputy leader Paul Nuttall.
But even if the badger was "guilty" of spreading bovine TB to cattle, it would be an innocent victim of man's arrogance and blind stupidity.
"Governor Spitzer will demonstrate abject stupidity and breathtaking disregard for the victims of 9/11 if he hands these powerful ID's to people who sneak across our borders," he wrote.
So while we can be rationally sceptical over whether the players' fates are predestined, we can certainly see that many of them are the victims of their own hubris, parochialism or plain stupidity.
He took to Twitter to express his thoughts, writing in French that he was "increasingly outraged by human stupidity" and that his thoughts were with the victims and their families.
