The domain and overwhelming shame that stupidity has on us is demonstrated by how many people are surprised when they evoke the name of this monster. As I could also notes when, in my search for predecessors in dealing with stupidity, I found surprisingly few. (Robert Musil)
There are many defects and defects that even without a strong critical sense, it is generally willing to admit. Are not uncommon circumstances in which we can say without hesitation episodes of irritability, excessive throat forms of avarice and prodigality, even some envy and even lust. Virtually every deadly sin, all "live evil" as Aristotle called them, can be said without undue modesty. I'm not even all that unusual situations where it happens to even boast. Only a very poor quality is unusual to hear someone who admits to be infected: stupidity. Yet it seems that not a feature so unusual among human beings. Thus it is sufficient to recall an aphorism of Einstein, certainly not stupid (at least in scientific matters): "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, but about the universe I still have doubts." It must then make us think the big difference between the its dissemination in the collective consciousness and its uniqueness in terms of individual consciousness, so to speak between the results of critical reflection and that of self-criticism. Without giving a reason unconditionally Lucentini Fruttero and when they say that for the stupid idiot is always the other, you can safely say that it is easy to recognize as the character of others, but is much more difficult when personal touch.
The reasons for this difficulty are different and even understandable. The cases in which one acts stupid accidents are considered in an otherwise sensible path, dropping from which to recover immediately and forget why they have nothing to do with what we are as a rule, think and do. The manager would short a stranger who insinuates itself at the moment for us making us do a bad impression. The inadequacy is his fault, not ours. Less if you recall the deeds and the more you take away, you think. Even for this stupidity, when it was done, it's always been investigated as a phenomenon and others as an anomaly. And the investigation has been conducted in order to diagnose and cure without being contaminated. Those who spoke did so usually with the detached attitude of a doctor who cares for the sick without being infected. The doctor, he thinks, must be healthy to be able to heal others. Not for nothing that the People advised him to take care of himself first. Who talks about the stupidity tends to do so then the fatal prospect of intelligence. The fact that this is not the ideal location for in-depth reports on the failure of all attempts not only to eliminate it but to understand it. Who has tried, albeit with considerable human and scientific efforts, it had to give up. Significant is the example of Gustave Flaubert, the writer who, as told his biographers, he was obsessed. Although I have spent many years collecting thousands of samples with the intention to expose and comment on a weighty tome, he could not carry out the work. Slightly more than one fragment is was also the novel Bouvard et Pécuchet , therefore a work in which he tried to deal with the tricky subject with the tools of literary fiction.
As medical students face when examining medical condition, it is inevitable feel about himself all the symptoms of stupidity when it is approached as though it were a disease. It is inescapable feeling inadequate, not in possession of the distance and the necessary authority to propose a therapy, if it turns out in the same position of patient in need of assistance. This is probably the reason why humanity has not yet been delivered to work that narratives and explains one of the most popular events, if not the most widespread of the human race. The absence
representations, investigation and reflection, a short scientific apparatus that stupidity submit to critical inquiry, as did many other characteristics of the human mind - think what it meant self-interest for the social sciences or libido for psychoanalysis, or the fear of death for philosophy - making it a land unexplored although everyone's face, directly or indirectly, everyday experience. Already relegated human stupidity in the event intended to grimace and derision, indicates the profound indifference of men to understand it. It seems then justified to think that you and mock you denigrate, try to avoid or eradicate the same way as a disease, just because you do not know poorly. If he had investigated more thoroughly in its phenomenology and its effects very likely it could re-evaluate and develop in all its positive powers.
Only short hint to what might appear as a kind of phenomenology of stupidity leads to assess it with more respect, even if only for the reason that it is difficult not to consider a dimension that relates to each of us, without exception. Meanwhile, it can be seen as a character is not immutable: it is not as physical appearance, height or eye color, which remain unchanged throughout the life of a man. Nor is it an exclusive nature because it can accompany the greatest minds and can emerge at any moment even in the human being more circumspect and respected. Stupidity is not in any case an angle that can be considered as an alternative to other, such as excluding the mild arrogance, or vanity, which excludes the modesty. Stupidity and intelligence can happily live without one is imposed permanently on the other. It can happen to anyone able to admire a great mind to dominate the modern physics particle and then listen as the product of the same mind, only a few minutes after the buffet, a long series of nonsense about different matters, the quality of white wine, the political situation, the last film by Pedro Almodóvar. For those who do not ever, ringalluzzito the success of a joke, then teased with success, to offer after a very silly joke? In short, there has to be considered, they have never experienced the sudden passing of intelligence to the favorable condition of the disheartening stupid. Our being is not driven by a single judge where to focus the totality of intelligence or all of the stupidity. There is in us than a sort of division of powers in the struggle between them, sometimes have the upper parts are responsible for intelligence, and sometimes those for stupidity.
It's not even correct to think that intelligence and stupidity are so different. So much so that there are in them look very similar. The stupidity can sometimes reveal much quality comparable to that of intelligence. It may happen that certain considerations such as, at first sight quite silly, open up a perspective on things unheard of revealing otherwise hidden nature. The inability to discern features that allows him to subvert the stupid the established order by returning to the world its original chaos, in short, destroying the conventions that distinguish artificially what is important from what is trivial, what is sacred and what is profane, what is meaningful from what is not. The risk of the court jester of ending up with the severed head depends largely on the seditious character that can take the stupidity. There is moreover a whole literary tradition, the picaresque, which feeds its subversive effects produced by the folly: the PICARO that reveals the irrationality of reason prevalent, the senselessness coated appearance wise. Not only did
stupidity can have very similar functions of intelligence may also be the opposite. Not necessarily, for example, that the will to achieve consensus on their intellectual gifts is availing itself of the automatic typical of stupidity. It is well known the fact of how the move to make them feel foolish painfully alone. In contrast, the smart has the pleasure of recognition of others. The psychological mechanism that rewards the intellect with the enjoyment of applause tends to inhibit the ability to carefully select fans. Despite the triumph of one's intelligence is a waiver of that normally characterizes it: discernment. There is no doubt that inexperience as both a unique character stupidity. And so obtuse acumen and sometimes tend to occur in unison.
However, from the perspective of the enjoyment of the stupidity that highlights the most interesting aspects. The interaction with the man who turns out to be a bit 'dumb offers something more, or at least different, than the experience with someone of obvious insight. The comparison with unholy behavior, with representations of reality and reflection can be relied on unreliable as a powerful stimulus to the autonomy of the proceedings. While intelligence is tempted by the abuse on others because it requires followers and admirers, stupidity leads the interlocutor to the affirmation of self and the manifestation of its position. If the other party of intelligence, seduced by the vision, tried to get into the hands of others, the stupid party is forced to rely on itself to become so intelligent on their own. While the intelligence assist in the drive to be conquered, stupidity calls for emancipation.
The transformation of the foolishness of others into opportunities free from the usual mechanisms selective and open to the wonder in the face of various facets of reality, the various types of the human mind. Therefore accept the stupidity no escape with the sneer or pedantic criticism indicates a willingness to accept without preconditions, what it offers the reality. This attitude of unconditional openness to the richness of creation is an indication of willingness to make sense even in what appears not to have it. There is content to accept only the value of things that there is an evident, but it takes possession of the right to find where is hidden and denied.
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