Stupidity Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Stupidity refers to the quality or condition of being stupid. The determination of who is stupid is difficult, despite attempts to measure intelligence (and thus stupidity) such as IQ tests. As there are many types of intelligence there are also many types of stupidity:Those who suffer from a mental disability that is genetic or biological in origin.
Those lacking knowledge about certain subjects. This can be those who are lacking formal education and knowledge about the world, or those that are highly educated but lacking street smarts or common sense. Lack of knowledge is more commonly termed ignorance.
Recently a great deal of attention has been paid to another class of stupidity: stupid actions by those that are highly educated and worldly. It is an important subject as it is increasingly evident that powerful, and generally very intelligent, people sometimes do stupid things. In recent years a number of notions such as group think or god complexes have been developed to explain this. This is a fairly new topic and there are still few academic works on the subject.
For probably as long as comedy has existed, stupidity has been a source of immense entertainment. Often, the entertainers are merely pretending to be stupid, but in many cases they are exhibiting their genuine intelligences. The buffoon of ancient plays is the progenitor of a venerable lineage that continued through Falstaff, Bottom, Harpo Marx, Goofy, Eccles, Norman Wisdom, Jerry Lewis and counltless others, and is today epitomized by Homer Simpson). The fool/buffoon has been a central character in most comedy. Today there are a wide array of television shows that showcase stupidity, from the America's Funniest Home Videos genre to shows like Jackass.
Often the greatest stupidity is deliberately generated by very smart minds such as the Oxbridge comedy of Monty Python or what some allege is the carefully crafted image of stupidity maintained by George W. Bush. It has also been argued that attractive women often adopt, deliberately or unconsciously due to social pressure, a sheen of stupidity as that is what is expected of them.
The Encyclopedia of Stupidity ISBN 1861891598 by Matthijs van Boxsel is based on the author's contention that "stupidity is in fact the foundation of our civilization" and his idea that no one is intelligent enough to realise how stupid they are. This is not as stupid as it sounds if one includes in the definition of stupidity "unwitting self-destruction, the ability to act against one's best wishes." A saying attributed to Albert Einstein is Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Therefore stupidity is not solely the opposite of intelligence but a very human kind of flawed or mistaken intelligence, the darkness that makes the light of true intelligence visible.
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