I will respond in two parts.
First, you’ve perfectly demonstrated what I mean about there being different thresholds for acceptance of evidence. You’ve watched some videos of people claiming to have had adverse effects (or know of some other unnamed person who has had an adverse effect) — and you accept that as appropriate evidence. It isn’t. You are happy to distrust the epidemiologists, virologists, communicable disease experts, public health officials, doctors, as biased, but perfectly happy to totally trust some Randos on the internet. The “competing evidence” you suggest exists is not equivalent.
I would not even begin to suggest (to go back to the title of this video) that you are stupid — I have no information about where you might fall along a distribution of intelligence (however one might measure that nebulous concept)… BUT, you are falling prey to ignorance. I am going to infer (maybe correctly, maybe incorrectly) that you don’t have a background training in science or statistics — most people don’t, so that’s probably a reasonable inference — because your threshold for evidence is inadequately low.
Say you watch 20 videos of random people saying stuff about how the vaccine hurt them… that ignores the (literally) BILLIONS of people who have had the vaccine with absolutely no negative effects at all. There’s no reason for those people to make videos (and who would watch them anyway?!?). You are ignoring the base-rates of negative effects – because yes, there are some adverse effects that can happen – and you, like most people, are vastly over-estimating the likelihood of an incredibly small probability actually happening.
Now, it’s not my job to convince you to take the vaccine.
I take it you haven’t seen the video of the More Sickening COVID Vaccine Findings: Dr. Franc Zalewski Finds “Aluminium Lifeform” Tentacled Parasite in Pfizer Vaccine. A sample of the Pfizer vaccines, of an aluminum-carbon lifeform with a head and three legs in different colors. Polish doctor/scientist who reveals the graphene and the parasite in the VEX- (hydra vulgaris) which is why the anti-parasitic drugs work OR the fact that there are foreign protein cells used in culturing viruses or vexs.
What we are living in is the psychological effects/backlash of psychological warfare…there is no reasoning with evil…5g will work in tandem with whatever is in that jab to further spiritually cripple humanity. Wearing a mask is stupid. The person wearing it isn’t stupid. The idea they have been fed to believe and forced to follow-is. The truth is that we are afraid of the truth, we prefer to forget than to suffer. We are therefore afraid of suffering and are easy to handle.
“We’ve built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don’t know how to tell themselves what to do.” -John Taylor Gatto
You’re a grown-ass man. What I can tell you is that by avoiding what you think is some grand governmental/biomedical/Whatever conspiracy, you are actually being manipulated for political purposes. Secondly, at least you recognize and admit that your stance on climate change is an example of willful ignorance — because the scientific evidence is overwhelming and anyone who says that it is a hoax or a conspiracy, or whatever, is full of shit and trying to manipulate you in order (for the most part) to continue making billions of dollars from the very industries that are causing the problem in the first place. Or else it is someone trying to score political points in a moronic culture war.
” No matter how smart you are , you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid ” -Anonymous
The most important insight in this vid is that stupidity is essentially a moral failing more than an intellectual one. The failure is in believing things based on how they make us feel, rather than on their truthfulness. It puts “taste” above “nutritional value” and eventually we starve.
Bonhoeffer was an incredible student and searched beyond book smarts.
He travelled to America and toured extensively before the war. He went to India because of Ghandi and travelled to Rome to see Vatican City. He had an imaginative, searching intellect. He warned the Allies about what Hitler was going to do and how utterly dangerous he would get. Nobody wanted to hear him, they just labeled him as a looney and ignored his warnings. I believe he meant for his writing to evoke discussion and debate rather than be conclusive; because he maintained a true sense of humility. Seems familiar?
I highly recommend Eric Metaxes’ book about Bonhoeffer – Bing video
Bonhoeffer is right, unfortunately almost nobody learned anything from past events, most people are all too happy to shut off their brain and just trust in a Leader and treat the opposing minority and whoever calls out their behaviour as badly as they can. Those who resist are mostly loners and outcasts, i did tie this to past traumatic events which removed/tamed both the need for social interactions and the universal trust in “All are doing it, they can’t all be wrong” thinking. Take a look around and don’t sugarcoat anything , while they won’t hang or gas you they are all too happy to call your boss to make you jobless, have banks close down your accounts, use Orwellian “Doublethink”-Judgement, try to supress you voicing any disagreement (removal of publicly visible dislikes here on YT for example),and insult you by labeling you with nasty names that are more fitting to the way they themself behave. Logic and Facts can’t reach them as long as they get constant validation by being in the main-mass and both politicians and media are all too happy to deliver frequent updates about who to hate constantly. It’s a very cruel thing to say but I feel that Education will only help to solve this if it includes a very hurtful lesson intended to show each and every kid to never place this level of unfounded trust into any person or group, to constantly reflect and question both the actions of themselves and society.
Goes to show the old saying ” when we all think alike, we don’t think at all” is correct. Years ago, I met an engineer during the course of my travels. His wife gave him a framed statement that he kept in his office; it said: “Engineers are only slightly harder to communicate with than the dead.” This was a light-hearted way to express her frustration with the problem she had communicating with him.
Many of the engineers I’ve known exhibited a common trait that led them to think they knew more than those who were not engineers. This belief caused them to make many unnecessary and costly mistakes. They exhibited this trait straight out of college, so I assume it was taught as part of their curriculum.
I’ve always used the term “ideologically blind” to describe people who seemingly have high IQs, but believe and promote the most stupid and evil policies. To such people, their ideology is all important, and they cannot be convinced otherwise by any amount of facts or reason.
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now”
A similar saying is, ” A year from now, you will have wished you started today,” and “It is impossible to make anything idiot-proof, intelligence is finite, but stupidity, the inverse of intelligence, is INFINITE!”
On some level, this applies to all of us, because there is inevitably at least one aspect of life or at least one opinion that we hold in which we consider ourselves more enlightened than others. “I am right about this and everyone else is wrong” is a thought or statement that none of us are immune from. The question then is not whether it applies to any one of us in particular, or doesn’t, it’s only the degree to which it applies. In parallel with that, it is a question of the degree to which we might have self-awareness to recognize it, step “outside” of ourselves, and understand why no matter how strongly we hold an opinion, we might be wrong about it.
Some, of course, can’t do that, and consider themselves to be always right, not only about things that are within their own areas of expertise or experience, which we could understand and concede, but about things that are clearly not. This isn’t helped by the internet and social media where the aim is so often to deal in quick, reactionary responses as opposed to reasoned discussion, where spending just a little longer to understand contrary beliefs and to analyze them properly is just too much hard work. There has to be a capacity to engage on that level, of course, but there also has to be a willingness, and that often doesn’t exist.
Worse still, it goes beyond “that’s my view and I’m sticking to it, no matter what”.
It gets to the point where the intentionally ignorant (by which I mean those that have no desire to deepen their understanding of anything beyond a superficial level – see “too much hard work” above) go to the extent of telling those that have spent years studying a subject that their acquired knowledge is wrong, because it’s what the [establishment][government][authorities][illuminati] (delete as applicable) want us to believe. Of course, proving a negative is often impossible so even attempting to debunk the latest conspiracy theory only serves to (a) waste one’s energy, and (b) feed into ignorant paranoia, so the cycle continues and we get nowhere. Charles Bukowski — ‘The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.’
This theory has some parallels with Dabrowski’s theory of Positive Disintegration. What Bonhoeffer describes as stupidity is, in Dabrowski’s language, a state of “primary integration” where all actions are justified by either self interest or social support, without critical internal examination or a sense that some actions are “higher” or “lower” than others according to a set of self-examined values. Dabrowski advocated “self-therapy” and learning, but I agree with the author of this video that the first step is likely removing the power structure that externally justifies the stupid behavior.
Ignorance is bliss, they say, and some people have unfortunately interpreted that very literally. 🙂
Everyone’s reality only goes out as far as they can see and everyone sees things from a different perspective. Like the old theory about who you really are. Every single person you have ever come across in life has a different vision of you and it’s probably not much like the one you have of yourself. When my kids were growing up I always told them to watch out for stupid and what makes this hard is sometimes it is you or your friends that are being stupid. It happens to all of us…Stupidity starts when you accept the timeshare in a community brain, and grows every time you exercise it. If you ever talked to a leftist, you know there’s a community brain “mindset” behind them.
“Whenever you find yourself in the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” ~Thomas Jefferson 🙂
Sadly, It applies to people on both sides of the political spectrum.
This makes me think of someone (I can’t remember his name) that I was listening to. He stated “If you fail to build a program for your mind, your mind will be programmed for you.” This was very interesting. Not making a decision about something is making a decision. Not making that decision or not taking a particular side or having an opinion puts you in the position of having one assigned to you. “Only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity.” Having a free thinking mind instead of an instructed mind created by someone is the way of overcoming stupidity. An act of “liberation” masked as stupidity.
If people want stupid, then force it upon them on your terms.
I think it means the person has to have a life experience which removes them from their automatic way of thinking and then they need to choose reason over the comfort and familiarity of stupidity. In other words, you cannot change their mind with words, something needs to happen that plants the seed of change within them. For example, in the movie Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood portrays a man who is racist until he has a life experience that removes him from his automatic thinking with empathy.
You don’t educate by words, you educate by VISIBLE practical facts and drastic situation changes. To create both tools, you will probably require things public morals will utterly disapprove of. You may eventually eliminate 40% fear in one person out of ten. The other 9 will just agree at the moment, but will whisper in your back how an utopic fool of a person you are. And that’s from someone that overcame most of its fears and have strong – doubtful yes – but strong opinions about how terrible of a bitch life is, you no make stupid mistakes for free. You know, no two people are the same, what matters to you may be irrelevant for me, and what matters to me may be irrelevant for him…
You can educate someone ONLY if that someone is in a position to listen and think, which is not automatic most of the time, for everyone. The revolution discussed here may be unclear. It’s not “get knives and guns and make noises”, nor “go to the United Nation assembly and talk”, nor “educate people”. It’s “make the stupid people feel how stupid they are, for real”, to make them realize the way they are driving their life is mainly destruction of the others around them (even if those others are as stupid as them).
If you want clear examples : 1) There are anti vax people, and those people are the ones complaining the MOST about economics problems. Okay, let’s allow people to work hard to gain money, stop distanciation, distanciation. nf detachment. → l’élève doit abandonner le processus d’identification au maître, à sa classe et aux savoirs pour entrer dans un processus de distanciation par rapport à son rôle d’élève, par rapport aux enseignants et plus généralement à l’école. Translation from French.
We don’t vaccinate, we open all airspaces, and
Rule #1 : whoever dies or becomes ill, NOONE has the right to complain.
Rule #2 : those that think it’s a very bad idea, secretly setup your own crisis management with your own rules like criminals and be discreet. Then let’s see………..
Poor people in third world countries are maintained poor to make it easier to control them & maintain them in a state of stupidity, make them believe being kind at all costs is good, have faith in god (and wait for a miracle)… reality is, because there is no justice (you get robbed or raped, that’s bad luck), people are just silently and slowly killing each other in every ways and forms (ex: scamming),
While the rich and richest less stupid (but stupid enough to not understand you’ll get even richer is your people had better life standing than that) soak up every ounce of everything in the country. Expect the sporadic someone in the country smart enough to educate around and come up with good ideas of how to change the future ?
That person is the one his family and “friends” will hate first because he will bring problems, trying to look smart lecturing everyone with utopic fantasy ideas of total nonsense.
“The military will come for you and if you don’t shut your mouth, you’ll get in jail or killed ! Do you want us to have problems or be killed ?? It will be all your fault” they said..
Solution : kill what maintains poverty and stupidity in your country, OR, become those very figures that maintain povery and stupidity, but, instead of doing the same as your new pairs, push the thing to a point where it becomes so unbearable to the locals/populations, it will eventually end with them killing you and your pairs, the moment they realize how stupid they were for so long. That’s revolution, an actual one, when you stop killing people like you, but actually start to focus on the actual root of all problems. Though, the smart move doesn’t stop there, you must come up with a new system that prevent a resurgence of the initial situation, or at least displace it far enough (up in the economic and political spheres) to not impact populations the way it did (that’s the case of wealthy countries today).
Someone so stupid to not listen to your advices (though, make sure you are not the stupid one not listening to others and give them credit for whatever is relevant from them) : Stop trying to help that person, let him/her sink in his/her problems. Take care of yourself (or someone listening to you, learning from you) and make huge progress in life (also means don’t lecture others if you don’t comply with your own advice). Someday, if you do it right, the stupid person will secretly envy you, yet, still hate you at the bottom of his/her heart. Let that person come you you, and then, tell him/her : “I told you, but you wouldn’t listen, now it’s too late, start to think hard, hard enough, and find the actual solutions in you life, beginning from the very simple : you are the problem, you are the one and only architect of your own demise”.
The revolution being two things :
– you are no longer of any help for him/her, a revolution upon you, making you strong enough to REFUSE to help and dare to lecture with strong, yet, well chosen words. – your life (or the one you helped) has changed, when we consider perception, upon the stupid person, the visible change in life standards or progresses is a visible revolution. If you fail to do both, the match that may enlight the stupid person’s state of mind never lights. In short : You don’t educate by words, you educate by VISIBLE practical facts and drastic situation changes. To create both tools, you will probably require things public morals will utterly disapprove of. That’s what a revolution is, in essence. “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction.” ― Susan Sontag
This is something I believed all my adult life. Throughout human history, a small percent of the population is predisposed to do the wrong things in life.
If you carefully tally, you will find that about 1 in 4. 25% of humanity falls into Hillary’s “deplorable” category: Anarchists, Criminals, Cruel, Insane, Sociopath, Psychopath, Destructive, Racist, Misogynist, destructive Drug user, Thief, Abusive, Molester, Sexual Deviant, and the huge numbers that ACT AGAINST THEIR SELF INTERESTS.
Let’s take a moment to remember the man who did all this thinking for us: Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Killed in a concentration camp for participating in an attempt to kill Hitler.
That’s what the history books tell us, can we really be so sure. We know history is written by the winners. maybe he had a part in trying to overthrow Hitler and the Nazi’s lied about his role like everything else they lied about. We will never know the truth but I would be slow to condemn a man we have so little facts about from sources we can trust.
This reminded me of the movie “Idiocracy” – Bing video
Mike Judge never thought Idiocracy would ultimately turn out to be a documentary and is almost certainly perplexed at how quickly it devolved in the US. It’s a movie that circles around the idea that evolution awards those who reproduce the most, and that of course, in the movie, is dumb people, while smart people just die off. So this guy is tasked by the government to get into a pod for a year, but things went wrong and he was in there for 500, he wakes up in 2505, the smartest man alive. ” The enemy of intelligence is not ignorance but the illusion of intelligence ” – Stephen Hawking
Conformity kills, says evolution.
Google algorithms: quod erat demonstrandum. Donald Trump is a demagogue who appeals to the lowest common denominator. — Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking said it. The exact quote is “[Trump is] a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.” He said it on an interview on Good Morning Britain, screened on 31 May 2016. You are free to look it up yourself. I realize however that if reality says that Trump is bad, reality is wrong rather than Trump, so of course this didn’t actually happen. Sadly, a genius like Stephen Hawking fell prey to stupidity as well – because of his pride. Remember, the notion of stupidity mentioned by Bonhoeffer isn’t about IQ but wisdom. The counterpart of genius is stupidity. Ever heard of Dunning Kruger, genius? Simple. Wow speaking of moving goalposts… you guys always try to confuse yourselves?
Little wonder why it’s such a mess here!
The old saying: Intelligent people know that a tomato is a fruit.
Recognizing that events have indeed occurred is an interesting definition of “stupidity”. The slightly heartbreaking irony is that, commenting on this of all videos as you are, this is a prime example of what the video is talking about. Hawking said this. This is a matter of public record. It’s really not up for debate. But because you’re clearly into Trumpism you’re willing to deny the basic easily-verifiable nature of reality because it conflicts with your ideology, namely that Trump is this wonderful genius and thus Stephen Hawking must think he’s great.
I am from the Netherlands. You guys seem somewhat self-obsessed. However, the world is much bigger than the US. Something you clearly don’t understand. Oh well…. empires come, empires go. Have a nice day 😀 @Wolfgang de Vries
So what’s so special about being from the Netherlands? Do you think where you come from makes you superior, or less stupid perhaps?
We have 27 running for the elections, though. There are 16 parties in the Dutch parliament right now. 150 seats, PVV has 17 seats, liberal VVD 34. D66 (democrats) 24. Btw we don’t have a regular admin atm. Anyway, the PVV comes from 20, Baudet 4 is new. That said, there are other right wing parties with a less extreme agenda which are getting more seats than Baudet atm. But still in the margin. We don’t have a real Bible belt in the Netherlands. Wiki: “In 2015, 82% of the Netherlands’ population said they never or almost never visited a church, and 59% stated that they had never been to a church of any kind.” I Did not know there were that many parties in the Dutch parliament. Wow. With two parties in the U.S., it’s nearly impossible to get anything done. Too much factional infighting within the parties. Biden, for example, can’t get his ‘build back better’ plan through Congress because two Senators in his own party won’t cooperate. It’s like trying to herd cats. In addition to the Bible Belt, with its millionaire televangelists selling tickets to heaven for $20 a pop, all tax free of course, there are Americans who believe that lizard people control the government and that liberals (left of center voters) eat babies on pizza. It’s a mad, mad world.
Basically, the Congress is powerless in the Netherlands, the House of R rules the country. So the current admin always has their hands free. So usually they need 3- 4 parties for an admin. A lot of negotiations before a new admin gets installed.
It’s kind of clear to me: all Trump lovers and Trump haters think they are geniuses. Americans seem somewhat self-obsessed. However, the world is much bigger than the US. Something you clearly don’t understand. Oh well…. empires come, empires go.
Have a nice day 😀
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin You only seem intelligent until you are proven wrong, Fact: communism has failed in every country that has ever implemented it. Communist, but I was never the dictator, therefore that wasn’t real communism. The reality is that any bureaucratic system (be it in the private or public sector) that reduces accountability and individualized responsibility, will eventually produce inefficient outcomes and often vindictive systems of repression. And the more inefficient systems become, the more likely and appealing the message of a charismatic tyrant who says, give me the power and I’ll fix it. And all the more easy to swallow if the message blames someone other than you, often manifesting itself towards a particular demographic (such as Jews, or business owners, or land holders). All the better the more vague the group scapegoat, you can hold up one or two individuals as icons of the group whose actions may have been reprehensible yet then blame the whole group (literally a logical fallacy called the fallacy of composition). Critical race theory is a shining example of this at play in the US today. Every occurrence of genocide has resulted from this form of thinking. Nuance matters. No individual is ever meaningfully represented by a grouping of any particular subset attribute. The atrocities committed by the Nazis were made possible by mere neglect of nuance mixed with blame. Do not think such things aren’t possible today. Human nature hasn’t changed. The irony of this predicament is that both sides believe they are the “intellectual smarter” and both sides think they are dealing with stupid.
These images are literally open minded people. It reminds me of the phrase:
“don’t be too open minded, or your brain will fall out”.
There are two sayings. “If you keep an open mind people will throw garbage in it.” And “Some people’s minds are like concrete. Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.” Try to be somewhere in between. Tim Minchin – Bing video
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle – Philosopher (384 – 322 BC)
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth – Albert Einstein
This video omits the most important part of the quote at the end. The part which explains what the required ‘internal liberation’ is “This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what ‘the people’ really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly. The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity. ‘But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on whether those in power expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom.’” The wisest persons in the world are those who know that: ‘What they didn’t know is more than what they know.’ “Arguing with a genius is hard, arguing with an idiot is impossible”
Arguing with a Genius who is also an Idiot is even worse. ~ Einstein (I think)
Einstein could perhaps be one of History’s greatly overestimated smooth brains. Nothing people attribute to Einstein in the world of physics was actually his own thought/work. Most of what Einstein is credited for/with, was actually deduced and offered by people who preceded him. It’s quite a bit of fabrication to have public schools teaching students that Einstein was a genius, when he was a middle-brow charlatan who stole others’ work and presented it as his own. Not too different from how we learn in public schools that Edison was the father of electricity-mastering — even though Nicola Tesla discovered and used electrical theories in practice to a much wider and deeper extent than Edison ever did. Who learned about Tesla in public schools, though? Hardly anyone I know! Tesla learned more about applied electrical energy than Edison ever could have dreamed, yet Edison is who everyone thinks was the electricity genius. It’s sad how many people don’t think too deep on much of anything. I’ve had in mind for several years, writing a book called “The Tragic History of Stupidity” or “Stupidity is a Powerful Force in World History”. What we have lived through these last 5 years here in America, and most specifically , since March of 2020 just drives home how right Bonhoffer was and is.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
Carlin was a comic genius, but I have no clue how stupid the average person is, because I’ve never met any “average” people. Average at what? And in what context? I’m uncomfortable enough judging the intelligence or stupidity of real people I actually know, let alone these faceless, objectified “average” people I have never known.
While funny, this is about IQ (pattern recognition) and not morality. Median IQ is always measured at 100, so a little bit less than 50% of the tested population have below 100 IQ, a little bit less than 50% of the test population have above 100 IQ, and the rest have exactly 100 IQ. You have been ripped off by people with the power and opportunity to rip you off. Sometimes, that power comes from intelligence. Other times, it comes from your ignorance (which has nothing to do with intelligence, no one can know everything). But more often than not, the power comes from… simply power. Your boss is not necessarily smarter than you, but he has the power to rip you off.
This so perfectly describes the world today that it’s frightening. I can’t imagine anything scarier than a few malicious people leading an army of stupid people who will do anything because they were told to. I’ve always used the terms intelligence versus cleverness, my dog is highly intelligent but not very clever. Humans as a whole are fiendishly clever but not very intelligent. “A fool who knows he is a fool can at least be said to have some wisdom, but a fool who thinks he is wise is a fool indeed.” – The Buddha Reflections on the development of critical thinking in school seem to me more and more urgent in the hyper-connected world. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯 A quick way to tell those who are really stupid: They get really angry and seek to destroy anyone who points out their stupidity. While a non-stupid will just understand they are misunderstood and seek to explain their positions, even if they are called names like “stupid”. Due to society’s progression into a late-stage capitalist dystopia globally connected via the internet, we are now trapped in the largest possible communal prison of stupidity. Great.
Same subject matter.
“The Banality of Evil” is a 1963 book by political thinker Hannah Arendt.
I feel like I’m living in Germany in the mid 1930’s.
A very interesting perspective on the nature of “stupidity”.
Essentially, in this definition, “stupidity” is the willingness to behave based on appealing but overly-simplified ideas. Essentially, in this definition, it is not “can’t know more” but rather “don’t want to know more” – a desire rather than an ability. This is an important shift in perspective of the word. We may agree, or not, but it is intellectually interesting as a framework. This perfectly explains American support for the Democratic Party. Pot. Kettle. /Whoosh!
Social media makes it so incredibly easy to find people who believe the same thing as you do, while also having an easy Block button when you encounter people who challenge those beliefs. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” “Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.” – Proverbs 23:9
Fools who are inspired by the wise are better than fools inspired by other fools,
if that makes sense.
This is how groups become “useful idiots” or “tools” of the politically powerful.
Morality and other philosophies are built on “first principles”. The law, for example, is administered to protect liberty and property, not to carry out justice. Justice is something administered when liberty or property is violated. Under our current regime, justice is a tool for administering equity, which is based on the history of oppressed peoples. These concepts are not based on “first principles” but sound good to a stupid person, and thus they are manipulated into actions that violate “first principles”. During the recent events taking place in society, I have been delving deeper into psychology trying to figure why the so-called smart people I work with embrace socialism. The phrase socialism wasn’t done properly came up and I replied yes it was. Even in Gulags prisoners so indoctrinated in socialism still embraced communism (just one degree away from socialism) has been explained here.
Few people are interested in discovering the truth once they become emotionally invested in a lie. “All the Cretans are liars” once famously said a Cretan. But since he was a Cretan, he was lying ,that meant that Cretans were not liars but since he was lying that meant that he was saying the truth or that all Cretans were liars….This is a very enlightening video, but I was sorry that this important part of Bonhoeffer’s original writing was omitted: “The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.”
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