“Cipolla’s 5 Laws of Stupidity”
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“Carlo Maria Cipolla, an economic historian, is famous for his essays about human stupidity, such as
“The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”. He viewed stupid people as a group, more powerful by far than major organizations such as the Mafia and the industrial complex, which without regulations, leaders or manifesto nonetheless manages to operate to great effect and with incredible coordination.
These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:
• Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
• The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
• A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
• Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
• A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.”
Otto Fenichel maintained that “quite a percentage of so-called feeble-mindedness turns out to be pseudo-debility, conditioned by inhibition….Every intellect begins to show weakness when affective motives are working against it”. He suggests that “people become stupid
ad hoc, that is, when they do not want to understand, where understanding would cause anxiety or guilt feeling, or would endanger an existing neurotic equilibrium.”
See also: “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”
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