{"id":1857,"date":"2021-11-12T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:11:03","slug":"is-stupidity-a-sociological-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/is-stupidity-a-sociological-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Is stupidity a sociological problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting video about Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s Theory of Stupidity. He argues that stupid people are more dangerous than evil people, because you can&#8217;t reason with stupid people. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s using &#8220;stupid&#8221; more along the lines of indoctrinated (I wonder if there&#8217;s a translation issue), and the whole argument reminds me of the saying &#8220;you have to be educated to be this stupid.&#8221; (&#8220;Educated&#8221; in this case meaning a false education that indoctrinates.) <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ww47bR86wSc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting video about Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s Theory of Stupidity. He argues that stupid people are more dangerous than evil people, because you can&#8217;t reason with stupid people. He&#8217;s using &#8220;stupid&#8221; more along the lines of indoctrinated (I wonder if there&#8217;s a translation issue), and the whole argument reminds me of the saying &#8220;you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/is-stupidity-a-sociological-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is stupidity a sociological problem?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}