I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.
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lmdnw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you think one gender needs to be subservient to another you’re either an evil person, a stupid person, or both.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.
Willful Ignorance
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yah it’s something like that, the WWE/kayfabe thing but spreading through reality broadly, where one chooses to believe something they know isn’t true, and thus it becomes true to them. Abandoning of accountability for one’s own beliefs and embracing whatever corresponds to whatever feels most validating or satisfying. I lost a family member to this in the form of conspiracism and delusion, instead of getting help for voices and visions, they found a community to support them and started making money from people seeking meaning and truth (the truth they want to hear that is) and as a result just tripled down on every crazy idea and was eventually arrested for taking a weapon to a school and was eventually released and went right back to their supportive community online.
I think the AI/atomized internet is going to either destroy us all, or it will force some people to actually reconcile their weaknesses as a cognitive being and how limited and vulnerable our minds really are in order to create safeguards against the most devious mental traps imaginable.
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs
Some links you may find interesting. It took me a few sittings to finish it because there’s so much information to process but I highly recommend watching that documentary.
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Got me remembering Badiou’s Ethics and how part of evil involves “fidelity to the lie” and actively denying the shared truth of reality.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
bonpote.com/…/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity…
Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation
Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.
Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am saving this, it’s very well said.
For real, I thought I knew this, I thought I was aware of the problem, then when covid hit I had an actual mental breakdown realizing just how bad it actually is, how the number of people who have cognitive thoughts is actually a slim, slim margin of the population and how “stuck” we are as a species.
What’s worse is we’ve taken ourselves out of selective processes for improvement. We will never, ever get smarter or fix this because it offers our species no advantages to do so.
We will never have the stars. I mourned that fact.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can’t categorize you as stupid, which would adhere to the 4th law.
Congratulations. You solved stupidity.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Then you really know your people.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nolan Chart.
Not to be confused with Gartner Chart.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I feel like it’s worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s a combination of both. Stupid people stuck in echo chambers being brainwashed and manipulate by the evil people.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s called having a belief.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Did you mean faith? People believe lots of stuff for good reasons.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no. just belief. people believe in all sort of arbitrary nonsense.
i dated a woman who thought eating breakfast was only for children, for example. she basically told me i was a man-child for wanting to eat food before noon.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
At some point I’m not going to care if the punch you’re swinging at me is from ignorance or not. I’m still getting hit and I’d be stupid not to defend myself.
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most of those people tend to believe such things because of their religion… Which they think is good, wise or both.
lmdnw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So then they fall under the “stupid” category if they actually believe and live their lives according to unprovable mythology and “evil” if they don’t actually believe and just use the religion as an excuse to oppress others.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
even if that person is a woman who thinks it’s natural/normal to be subservient to a dominate man, and calls herself a feminist/progressive/liberal/independent woman?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that opinion involves other women. they can make what ever choices about themselves but the belief that others are to be subservient is evil.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
so it’s evil only if she preaches it as a lifestyle?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and the latent belief that others should be subservient.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That woman thinks wrong and should think the way that I, a man, say she should.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Republican?
lmdnw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re both evil and stupid.