My friend likes to say; "There are people who think they know everything, and this makes us who know they don't very angry." It is sad in how many occasions you see stupidity and an absolute lack of humbleness hand in hand.
Lots of years ago the economist Carlo Maria Cipolla wrote a little divertimento "The Fundamental Laws of Human Stupidity", compiled in his book of essays "Allegro ma non troppo". In his text he argues that we always underestimate the number of stupid individuals around us and that the probability of someone being stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. Then he goes into the definition of a stupid person; those whose actions are harmful to others without providing any benefit for themselves. In other words he separates stupid from evil persons. (i.e. those whose actions are harmful to other at their own benefit). Worst is that non stupid people always underestimate the harm that stupid people can do (just because they can not understand such a "stupid" pattern of behaviour) and finally concludes that the stupid people is the most dangerous type of person, because you can not protect yourself against stupidity.
Why all of this? I don't really know, I wanted to start a blog and this was the first thing that came to my mind.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment