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Where Ignorance is Mandatory and Outrage is a Virtue

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Stupidity is often mistaken for ignorance, as if the cure were merely a library card or a patient teacher. But true stupidity is not the absence of knowledge—it is the refusal of it. It is not a void but a barricade: a conscious decision to cling to comforting delusions while reality knocks, pounds, and finally hurls a brick through the window.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who wrote from a Nazi prison cell, put it better than any modern pundit …