Friday, May 16, 2025

Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless " reasons fall on dead ears.

Bonhoeffer's famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.

Posted by Corky at 10:25 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

Comments

One of the Comments sums up the short video:

"The most important insight in this vid is that stupidity is essentially a moral failing more than an intellectual one. The failure is in believing things based on how they make us feel, rather than on their truthfulness. It puts "taste" above "nutritional value" and eventually we starve."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-16 10:27 PM

Corky's biweekly contribution from Eurowhitecisgendermale center/leftist theologians.

Doesn't matter how right they are, Corky. It's a new age.

As a friend once told me, I'm editing the decline of Western civilization. It's kinda fun. We're up to fourth-stage womanism at this point.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-05-17 04:54 PM

We can't all be Alice Walker, lol.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-17 05:25 PM

Magat scum are nearly unanimously stupid

#4 | Posted by Truthhurts at 2025-05-17 05:30 PM

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