No kidding! Welcome to our Dystopia of Stupid here in the USA! Stupidity is a dark, malevolent force. Immune from argument, rationality, logic, and/or common sense. Ha. That's fucking Trump & MAGA in a nutshell. Bringing us all down in a grand heap of failure, incompetence, corruption and stupidity.
Cipolla divided people into four groups: the helpless, whose actions harm themselves but benefit others; the intelligent, whose actions benefit themselves and others; the bandits, who enrich themselves while harming others; and the stupid, whose actions harm others while producing no benefit to themselves. This latter group is Cipolla’s main concern. “No matter how high are one’s estimates of human stupidity,” he wrote, “one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid; b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one’s activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.”
