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[+] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (24 children)
  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.

    Willful Ignorance. Choosing to remain stupid despite access to information.

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  • [+] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

    https://youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs

    Some links you may find interesting. It took me a few sittings to finish it because there's so much information to process but I highly recommend watching that documentary.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

    Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation

    Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.

    Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.

    Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can't categorize you as stupid, thus adhering to the 4th law.

    Congratulations. You solved stupidity.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like it's worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    At some point I’m not going to care if the punch you’re swinging at me is from ignorance or not. I’m still getting hit and I’d be stupid not to defend myself.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Did you mean faith? People believe lots of stuff for good reasons.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    no. just belief. people believe in all sort of arbitrary nonsense.

    i dated a woman who thought eating breakfast was only for children, for example. she basically told me i was a man-child for wanting to eat food before noon. you could not argue with her and she could not accept that people eat breakfast. she thought eating breakfast as a man made me weak and pathetic and she told me i had to stop eating breakfast if i wanted to keep seeing her.

    no idea why she believed this, but to her you can't be 'adult' if you eat food before noon. probably how she was raised and she never questioned it her entire life. she was 37.

    I've also had people tell me that I organize 'wrong'. and a million other arbitrary things they were adamant were the 'only way' you could do something or eat something or whatever. the most common one is that I'm must be gay because I have a cat. a 'real straight man' can't own a cat.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Do you believe this to be true?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    believe what? that i'm gay because I have a cat?

    No. But lots of other people believe that.

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