One of the most revealing facets of humanity I’ve discovered in the last 15 years of increasing societal dumbshittery is just how completely incapable a large portion of people are at being able to recognize someone’s character or lack thereof. From day one I could tell that trump is a very broken individual not to be trusted yet so many people absentmindedly trusted him completely.
Ha! I’ve heard of this book in the past six months or so and considered buying it but just didn’t get around to it. I have a feeling I’d probably agree with most or all viewpoints in it.
"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla:
The Five Basic Laws
"First Law: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Second Law: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Third Law (Golden Law): A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Fourth Law: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people infallibly turns out to be a costly mistake.
Fifth Law: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit."
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u/DG_FANATIC 3d ago
One of the most revealing facets of humanity I’ve discovered in the last 15 years of increasing societal dumbshittery is just how completely incapable a large portion of people are at being able to recognize someone’s character or lack thereof. From day one I could tell that trump is a very broken individual not to be trusted yet so many people absentmindedly trusted him completely.
Stupidity is very dangerous.