Last updated: September 14, 2022 at 22:06 pm

Created on Saturday, 28 March 2009 13:52

‘STUPIDITY' by Albert Nerenberg features interviews with various people who engage in critical thinking. If you don't know what critical thinking is, you should not be on my website.

Some of the subjects covered in this 2003 documentary are the effects of television and mass media on the intellect, the dumbing-down of the masses, the popularity of Steve-O and Jackass, the role of religion in willful stupidity, and the evolution of such concepts as 'idiot' and 'moron'.

 Updates 14 September 2022 

This is the song that's played during the closing credits of the documentary. Quote from the lyrics:

If you want a place in the history books then do something dumb before you die. 

Why Stupid People Think They're Smart

The 5 Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity

Link to the full article on Principia Scientific International (PSI). You can also copy/paste this link into your browser – https://principia-scientific.com/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity-according-to-cipolla/

A very interesting study conducted at the Eötvös Loránd University gives us other clues to gain self-consciousness in determining the 3 causes of human stupidity:

1. Ignorance or overconfidence. It would be the highest degree of stupidity and appears in people who take risks of any kind, although they lack the skills or knowledge necessary to face them.

2. Lack of control. It’s a medium degree of stupidity that corresponds to impulsive people, who lack self-control and act letting themselves be carried away by the first impulse.

3. Distraction. It would be the slightest degree of stupidity, which manifests itself in those who fail to achieve something because they don’t pay attention or don’t allocate sufficient resources, struggling uselessly.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect or Why Incompetent People Think They're Amazing

Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity

Bonhoeffer on Stupidity (entire quote)