Science involves confronting our `absolute stupidity'.
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We should never underestimate human stupidity. Both on the personal and on the collective level, humans are prone to engage in self-destructive activities.
Half of success is about consistently noticing your own stupidity and not acting on it.
As Montaigne said, the peasant has a profound indifference and a patience toward death and the sinister side of life; and if we say that this is because of his stupidity, then “let’s all learn from stupidity.” Today, when we know more than Montaigne, we would say “let’s all learn from repression”—but the moral would have just as much weight: repression takes care of the complex symbol of death for most people.
Misfortune or stupidity on the collective level resulted in mass famines.
Worse, the more you try to reform an idiot, the stronger he gets.
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