For The Religious

@Ynotisay The video defines stupidity as willfully ignorant.

@BibleData It does. It also made the point that intelligent people can be stupid. There's just a lot of baggage around the word. Not saying it isn't appropriate. But it is dismissive.

@Ynotisay [quote]Not saying it isn't appropriate. But it is dismissive.[/quote]

It is dismissive and well it should be. You can't reason with them. There is no defense against them. You can only prevent their being conditioned to stupidity, but that isn't profitable. It's counterproductive to the financial and political incentive.

@BibleData True. And what seems to live at the core is "fear" and "enemy." Those two things are easily accessible, delivered and dig deep in certain types. Not sure how you get around that.

@Ynotisay "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune.

The fear is, I think, a product of the imagination of the people. The people are the enemy of the state. From the superstition and ignorance of religion, politics and now science - that's the history of the world. People make themselves stupid to feel safe. It's groupthink. Take away the incentive. If stupidity is the metaphorical dragon of our time, of the ages, of the world - the zeitgeist, the spirit of the world - we can't fight the dragon, we can't train, that is, reform the dragon, we must starve the dragon. Take away the incentive. If the incentive is money - and it is - take it away. It's obsolete.