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fromBig Think
1 week ago

How to spot a stupid person with Carlo Cipolla's "golden law of stupidity"

We don't often call people stupid. Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn't really a personality trait. Of course, you might think someone is stupid, but when we use the word, we tend to limit it to moments of stupidity. We say "Well, that was a stupid thing to do" or "You're being stupid." Stupidity is a blip.
Philosophy
Philosophy
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Are We Getting Stupider?

Modern life multiplies new forms of stupidity—cliché, mass conformity, bureaucratic and digital idiocy—even if overall intelligence or education increases.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

A shift occurred from a post-truth crisis toward widespread public stupidity that undermines objective knowledge and enables media amplification of falsehoods.
Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review comfortably dumb?

Stupidity is a multifaceted, historically shifting concept with definitional ambiguity, encompassing ignorance, foolishness, obtuseness, and cognitive failings reframed by the Enlightenment.
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