The 5 Laws of Human Stupidity That You Must Know!

The red tie is a dead giveaway and very apt!!!

Cipolla is pretty good, but rather ignores other factors such as desperation and fear. Perfectly rational and sensible people can still spout stupid nonsense if pressed to it - think about North Korea, where it's basically a survival strategy. Similarly, if that's 'the way the wind's blowing' a lot of people will opt for the safer path of going along with it. Imagine if everyone is starving, your kids are starving, and the guy in charge of the food supply says: "Your family can have food, but your neighbour's can't." How long are you going to stay on that moral high ground? He also seems to ignore the power of media and propaganda, pushing a one-sided view of the 'Nation' (and the World) from the moment we learn to read. I'm not just talking about Autocracies here, perfectly liberal-seeming Democracies do it just as much. The main purpose is to make you always think you're in the minority if you question anything about the powers-that-be.

Thank you

Today México is a good example of why we should limit stupidity and why stupid people are more dangerous than bandits

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The fifth law postulates that the Pillagers are somehow restrained in their damage dealing by the extent of the personal benefit they can extract from their wrongdoing. However, criminal psychology data does not support that premise. "Some people just like to watch the world burning". Criminals are often like that.

and now with Internet the world in doomed.

"Stupidity" is a poor choice of words for these folks.... but I don't think English already has a better word, and so propose the following new and special purpose past tense of "to think...." "THUNK." That word seems to sound just right to describe people who fit into this category ... People who believe that they have already thought things out, and are unwilling to hear anything not supporting their views...

So then do not the nonstupid among us qualify as stupid for lack of insight?

The "Second Law of Stupidity" is largely inconsistent with Group 4. They neither benefit themselves or others. Thus a successful "stupid" person illustrates that they are capable of looking out for "their best interest", the longer their success goes on. If "Stupid people" is a description of Group 4, the people who have benefitted themselves cannot be "Stupid". So there appears to be a little false specificity here. Not that I don't agree in part with #2. But also the rhetoric seems to imply what I find to be a false dichotomy--a false _binary_, if you will, that you are either in a class of "Stupid people" or you are not. For example if "stupid people" cause "great harm", maybe that's because the people in power acted stupidity, as reviewed by the people out of power that didn't have the opportunity to illustrate their own alternate stupidity. So, I wouldn't put too much in these "laws". Besides Marxism is WAY stupid, and "their own best interest" sounds like Marxist and quasi-Marxist jargon, enough to speculate what it means when someone things "their own best interest" is a self-evident thing (which does not mean that it is not at times self-evident).

2:30 3:30 5:40

re: 2:50 they brought it on themselves

" is a poor choice of words for these folks.... but I don't think English already has a better word, and so propose the following new and special purpose past tense of "to think...." "THUNK." That word seems to sound just right to describe people who fit into this category ... People who believe that they have already thought things out, and are unwilling to hear anything not supporting their views...

knew it

Okay, you officially lose me at 8:49, how can we trust that "rational people" have "strength in numbers" if #3 is "Always and Inevitably, Everyone Underestimates the Number of Stupid Individuals In Circulation". Doesn't expecting "strength in numbers" sound like a good way to trust that you're not underestimating the number of "stupid people"? This just sounds to me like a modern, secular pretention at separating the "sheep from the goats". And it's false rigor bothers me.

Unfortunately this is The trend in Angola. A ticking timebomb in an already rock-bottomed society.

You think back about so many movements motivated by good intentions. The world is in such a mess because of good intentions. Sure, good things happen but it's two steps forward, one step back.

Cipolla's Five Laws of Human Stupidity describes precisely some of the idiots we have today. For instance the cancel culture and the radical green movements. This video should be broadcast in every country in the world to wake the non-stupid people to the damage stupid people are doing to their countries.

All the MAGAs in the comments trying desperately to pretend this isn't about them......too funny.

I guess you're a Wackadoo or Wackadon't regardless of Country or Religion.