No. of Recommendations: 9
Isn't it interesting how history repeats itself?
Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity
How Trump Rose to Power...
"That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence." ~Miguel de Unamuno
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (theologian, philosopher and anti-Nazi dissident) argued that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil.
"Because evil people find it hard to take power, they need stupid people to do their work.
Like sheep in a field, a stupid person can be guided, steered, and manipulated to do any number of things.
Evil is a puppet master, and it loves nothing so much as the mindless puppets who enable them."
"Slogans, catchwords and the like take possession of the stupid person. (MAGA, Build That Wall, Lock Her Up!)
He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.
Reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed
and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. (Rape? What rape?)
In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated,
becomes dangerous by going on the attack." (January 6th)
https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-s...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc 