Stupidity becomes dangerous when we surrender our own critical thinking and we outsource it to somebody else.
and stupidity .
5-- stupidity is power."
affected stupidity in her speech, because that was the fashion-- eventually ditched Scott and got an MBA from Wharton.
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and intelligent stupidity . Now ordinary stupidity is what a lot of people might associate with cognitive ability.
But intelligent stupidity is when somebody who is otherwise incredibly able, somebody who is otherwise incredibly talented, articulate, erudite, uses their abilities for
So that's why stupidity is such a harder thing to find and it's why Bonhoeffer thinks is actually worse than evil because it's part of the system and it drags down institutions and it
about as stupidity because what you have here are people who are valuing conformity and the tribe more than their own critical thinking abilities.
Because the stupidity .
That wasn't stupidity , it was a tendency of human beings to cling to the cruel illusion of their own centrality in the stream of divine existence.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits, you know?
These are badges of stupidity , not honor.
And all that stupidity is just before 2008.
there's so much stupidity in there.
burger what stupidity of this I did not dispose of the surface of Christian theocracy
to really understand what he meant by stupidity because it's different to how a lot of us use the word stupid in our everyday lexicon. So what is stupidity ?
Now again um Bonhoeffer says that stupidity can be defined by three different elements.
Now the second element of stupidity is when we are willfully ignorant. I mentioned earlier how ignorance is itself not a form of stupidity .
So that's the second example of stupidity according to Bonhoeffer. Now the third element of stupidity is conformity.
So what Bitan is saying is that stupidity isn't limited to any one particular type of person.
So there are many examples of when stupidity can be funny and particularly when it's associated with ignorance.
to malice what can be explained by stupidity .
And some people define ignorance and stupidity as being synonymous.
They believed in all kinds of stupidity .
And I'm totally clear that stupidity , fear, and greed ruled my life for the first 40 years.
great forces that rule the world-- stupidity , fear, and greed.
There's a difference between stupidity and ignorance.
And one of the last outposts of stupidity was the state of Tasmania, where until very recently,
And by ignorance I don't mean stupidity .
But I constantly feel I have this stupidity in me.
And sort of drawing out the stupidity of the people that would sign up to be a suicide bomber.
One of the biggest principles of applied stupidity that I just love is let other people solve the problem.
She was using a principle of applied stupidity .
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Chapter one, stupidity versus evil.
So in in Bon Hopper's letters he talks about stupidity and he makes this slightly bold claim that stupidity is a greater threat to civilization than even evil.
I think a better reflection of the mechanisms behind stupidity today can be found in an essay from George Orwell written in 1946 known as politics and the English language.
So whenever I post on social media about stupidity the lack of critical thinking or the rise in group think they often do very well.
There is one in particular called the "The Stupidity of Computers" for n+1 that I think did provide the germ for this.
So I really like Carlo Cipolla's theory of stupidity .
How do you see us combating incompetence or stupidity
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So think about what the crowd does and all of the stupidity of the crowd, all of the folly of the way that most people invest,
And sometimes it takes bravery and rebellion to overturn entrenched stupidity .
I was almost weeping with anger at my own stupidity in having stayed in the same place two nights in a row, and
people around and talk about a book on stupidity .
And you believe you now know the root cause to this stupidity .
- But what if it's something more uncomfortable, stupidity ?
So Bonhoeffer is careful to say that those three things are not stupidity . But what is stupidity ?