Western Literature on Stupidity Reviewed _ Crimson Publishers
Western Literature on Stupidity Reviewed by James FW in
Integrative Journal of Conference Proceedings
This review of the literature on stupidity demonstrates it
has been and is a topic of interest among literati from Greek and Biblical
times to the present. Recent writings on the topic are mostly anecdotal and
with two exceptions indicate a lack of scientific analysis in the phenome-non.
Considering how little intelligence and how much stupidity
there is, it really is incredible that the extent imbalance regarding these two
phenomena in the scientific literature has existed for so long. Whatever the
cause for this condition, it cannot be that stupidity is not a fit topic for
scientific investigation because if it is not, then neither is intelligence.
However, the one is totally neglected and the other virtually pounded into the
ground. If we really want to have a full understanding of the human experience,
we will finally have to acknowledge, examine and finally understand that which
is both embarrassing and shameful. As an operative definition of stupidity, it
may be regarded as the learned inability to learn: That is a normal,
dysfunctional learning process which occurs when a schema formed by linguistic
biases and social norms acts via the neurotic paradox to establish a positive
feedback system which becomes first self-sustaining and then renders behavior
irrelevant to the environment by carrying detached actions to maladaptive
excesses. Fortunately, knowledge of stupidity is not limited to what historians
and psychologists have not written about it. Herodotus noted that man was
robbed of reason by Infatuation.
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