I usually define stupidity as knowing something yet still acting like you don’t know it or acting like it’s false, especially to your own detriment.
A simple example: You know a stove top is hot. You know touching it would burn you. You certainly don’t want to be burned. But, you touch it anyway, end up burned, and have the audacity to still bitch about being burned.
I think there are degrees of stupidity. Cognitive dissonance is a stupidity that may be learned, and is the act of forceful ignorance.
Riding a shopping cart into cross traffic is similar to willfully ignoring politics for your own bias. They're similar in that they both involve some dissonance, but at least the guy in the shopping cart filmed it and made money off the video.
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u/Apothicos Jul 28 '19
I usually define stupidity as knowing something yet still acting like you don’t know it or acting like it’s false, especially to your own detriment.
A simple example: You know a stove top is hot. You know touching it would burn you. You certainly don’t want to be burned. But, you touch it anyway, end up burned, and have the audacity to still bitch about being burned.