WHY ARE WE OFTEN SO STUPID?
WHY ARE WE OFTEN SO STUPID?
We have more information at our fingertips than any other time.
If data and information were water, we would live deep in the oceans. Yet with all this information, this history, this vast foundation of post-enlightenment teaching, how are we so stupid?
The term “stupid” should not be taken as a childish slur but as an expressure of cognitive and self-awareness failure.
But why?
Ignoring Consequences is less painful:
Who has time for introspection when social approval is just a tweet away? Instead of trudging through the messy work of ethical reasoning, we opt for the far more glamorous route of showing off our moral “superiority.” Several psychological and sociological mechanisms explain this all-too-human shortcut:
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