Stupidity - Reconsidered

This video explores the positive side of stupidity, especially relative to our cultural's prevailing conventions and linguistic practices.

[tumasrackaitis]

Great Video Mr. Dodson, I have enjoyed your series for a long time. I felt like I was reliving a discussion on the meaning of Dostoyevsky's "Fool" but with a more concrete everyday application. Since its not here, and since I have been reading a lot more Sartre thanks to your videos, I have to ask: Do you think that it is the interest or mere convenience that a capitalist system would keep people in this need to not be stupid? I understand that stupidity and the self-perception of stupidity is a human characteristic, but would it be magnified as labour is commodified? As I am already in college debt, I can see that I have fallen into the maws of this "stupid" distinction, and yet I am wondering if this could possibly precede or even create the systems of capitalism.

[Getyourwishh]

Time stamps:
0:00 - The spirit of stupidity: An invocation
0:55 - Why stupidity?
2:50 - Insults as indicators of our psychological issues
4:58 - Three basic elements of stupidity
6:29 - Everyone is stupid: Stupidity as an ontological category
8:14 - Owning our stupidity: Liberation from emotional manipulation
9:22 - Escaping the thralldom of intelligence
10:25 - The idiot's song: A conjuration

[milesroth]

These videos are just phenomenal, great thanks and deep appreciations go out to the profound utterances and insights that are presented, raying down like sunshine to enlighten our strange, foggy world. Cheers :)

[arterial]

Love it, Eric. You & Rick Roderick are my favourite southerners.

[Milton_C]

Another video in just three days? You're the best!

[TheyCallMeNewb]

Can we reasonably assert there an existence of a dichotomy though? Most fall into the anonymous masses, and are never again to be distinguishable, fleeing from themselves, into self-deception. This was a real treat to watch; many thanks.

[siyaindagulag.]

Measure twice..
Cut once.
The Tradesman's mantra.

[face....]

Stupid is when you are too confident that you know everything. A true genius has less confidence in themselves because they are smart enough to know that they don't know everything.

[naufilmanasiya]

Please make video on envy and jealously

[skullhoof]

In engineering, there is a subject on stupidity which it call human factors. All good design needs to take into considerable that human are fallible. Many accidents are cause by smart people's stupid decisions. No doctors, engineer, managers are immune to stupidity. While I agree that we can be more accepting towards our own stupidity. Sometimes stupidity is just too costly and dangerous.

[jamesblack]

I struggle with this all the time. Thanks for the video, needed to get this perspective!

[trzg.v]

You deserve something I don't know what but You deserve something GOOD :)

[alienakuma]

Interesting video man, really eye opening

[kevinhornbuckle]

There is a reason academicians virtually never attend to the supply side of stupidity; exception being only those lines which serve their own commdified output.

[PhilipStCroix]

This was a stupid sermon. Keep them coming :P