Guess who is portrayed as the smart, witty person(s), and who are the butt of the joke fools?

But then you drive around some neighborhoods, look at crime statistics, analyze Illegitimate mothers, and high school graduatIon rates, and then you get back to reality.

"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.