We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril.
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Corinne Purtill
In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.
Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.
Let’s take a look at Cipolla’s five basic laws of human stupidity:
Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
No matter how many idiots you suspect yourself surrounded by, Cipolla wrote, you are invariably lowballing the total. This problem is compounded by biased assumptions that certain people are intelligent based on superficial factors like their job, education level, or other traits we believe to be exclusive of stupidity. They aren’t. Which takes us to:
Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. MORE h/t PapaDoc, Doc.
If they’re a politician, I always presume if they’re a “D” it stands for dumbass. I’ve yet to be proved wrong in my 55 years on that one!
Jackass Joe: Never underestimate the power of stupid!
And when you’re stupid AND a bandit, the danger to innocent folks is off the charts. Take Biden and Harris for example…
A lot of Bandits wearing the D moniker too.
…but intelligent hurts itself and benefits and propogates stupid too. Intelligent Nerfs everything so stupid can survive making toast in the bathtub and driving while texting to name just two; Intelligent sues other Intelligent to the gain of stupid if things aren’t Nerfed enough; Intelligent figures out how to feed, clothe, and shelter stupid so stupid can make MORE stupid; and Intelligent breeds with stupid because it’s WAY less work that breeding with other Intelligent.
…so the main reason Stupid is intractable is that Intelligent promotes their survival and reproduction, to Intelligent’s own detriment.
And that’s really pretty stupid of Intelligent, if you think about it…
Never, ever vote for a democrap under any circumstance no matter how much they bribe and lie to that they’re the party of the little guy. And don’t smoke dope as it will make you perpetually stupid and a dumbass for life.
Ron White’s #1 Universal Rule: “You can’t fix stupid.”
And yet some intelligent people think they can, proving they’re not as smart as they think they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv7Tr8HbGE
Antifa and BLM anyone?
The Plot Against the President (2020)
https://rumble.com/vzj9wx-the-plot-against-the-president-full-documentary.html
I wish there was a way to compare TURDEAU vs JOEY BEFORE the Dementia.
I suspect it would still be far to close to call after watching many Old Videos of Joey on T-tube.
I think you guys are winning, but only because of the Dementia.
Kcir – Long before the dementia set in I said that some day this dumbass will be found babbling in the noonday sun about taking long walks on the beach with the love of his life only to find out later that he’s been wandering around the K-Mart parking lot all morning dragging a stolen mannequin behind him!
You guys are over-thinking this.
The evil in our society is all the bandits convincing otherwise helpless or intelligent people to be stupid to the benefit of the bandits. I won’t be tedious and name names, we know who they are.
It makes total sense. We are so screwed.
The huge disagreement of our time is between the progs and the cons, each of which view the other as “the stupid”.
Voluntarily wearing Fauci Face Panties is a good indication of stupid.
@SNS April 9, 2022 at 11:46 am
> And that’s really pretty stupid of Intelligent, if you think about it
I’m guessing half won’t “get” the joke. Let’s vote on it.
Interesting series of articles, but Science will produce results in accordance with grant sources, and most of the articles are just that.
Well written but so biased I am surprised my monitor didn’t roll to the left while on that page.
Waiting for the government to declare stupid people a protected class and entitled to disability benefits. The humorless blobs will make the stupids the next sacred cow and encourage children to join this class.
Under rule #2: How many stupid people are among us? Arguably 81M (allegedly)
For those who “don’t have time”… to click the link… right there…
This study was published in 1976. When Gerald Ford was President. Of The United States.
A study. Paid for. By those what can’t maf. For those what can’t maf. Almost 50 years ago.
And for those of us who didn’t have time to click the link—we read it was written in 1976 in the FIRST LINE!! They’re right, there are stupid people among us.
I am familiar with that postulate and at one time accepted it as more likely than not true under Occam’s Razor.
That understanding has been supplanted by my current understanding that these actions are motivated by malicious intent. There are plenty of downright stupid individuals, that’s for sure. But having lived among, observed and considered those driving the destructive impulse, they are by and large flat out wicked and evil fuckers hell bent on increasing innocent human suffering, misery and death. Even the stupid ones are consumed by envy and resentment and don’t have any excuse for their vile actions.
It took me a while to remember where I got them my introduction to this theory. The source is Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
1,661,272 views Oct 15, 2021 Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on dead ears. Bonhoeffer’s famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc
I automatically assume everyone else is stupid.
@ Eugenia APRIL 9, 2022 AT 1:56 PM
What do you think Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)is all about?
I can 100% guarantee you that when confronted about the pernicious affects their deliberate, systematic and wanton wicked and evil behavior have on innocent people’s lives that will be the first place the bastards run to to exonerate themselves and explain away their guilt. Nothing is ever their fault don’tcha know.
“Stupidity is a moral defect, an active renunciation of normal intelligence” (Bonhoeffer)
https://inf.news/en/news/97a9409485be75ce1a6ad54e4d69b4cf.html
False. We can do something about the stupid, but it’s illegal.
Next time please link to the original source. This article is decent, but the website linked to also contains a lot of crap.
Carlin said it best:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
I have to laugh when some professor tries to make science out of non-science. They often put up these quad charts whereby they try to break a thing down into four quadrants, leaving out the possibility that there could be more than four categories.
Is there a valid measurment of stupidy and intelligence? The IQ test seems to have some problems. Einstein didn’t accept quantum physics most of his life, I’m told. He did not get it, but nobody dared call him stupid.
He is so famous as a great intellect that there is a chain of bagel shops in his name. Take that!
I think his theory of stupidness is not scientific. It may be pretty dumb. Whether it’s worse science than the theory of multi-universes can’t be measured scientifically.
#1: a rat-mofo in a loyuh-suit will do anything