Yup, Now As Then
Yup, Now As Then
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30565887
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"Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor force can touch it; arguments fall on deaf ears. Evil always carries the seeds of its own undoing - it creates unease. But stupidity feels self-satisfied, immune, and convinced of its own rightness. And that makes it far more dangerous." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
- Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
- The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
- 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.
- 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 always turns out to be a costly mistake.
- A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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you emphasized #5, but i feel like we're still coming to grips with #4 right now
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Yar har har, fiddle dee dee!
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On the global scale, this is colonialism.
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this dude was a liberal economist who was against socialism and was making arguments that laws most protect private property, as opposed to "plunder" the property of people.
This dipshit inspired Ronald Reagan.
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