Stupid is the new smart
I am far from the first person to try to say something smart about stupidity. In 2002, NYU professor Avital Ronell published an entire dense and witty book on the subject, (Stupidity) referencing all kinds of extremely smart people like Deleuze and Nietzsche and Spinoza and Heidegger and Kierkegaard and the things they’ve said about stupidity. Since I’m fairly stupid about philosophy, I’m not going to use a lot of philosophical quotes in my discussion: if you want those you c