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No matter how many fools we suspect you are surrounded by, we always underestimate the total. This is because we consider some people intelligent based on characteristics that we believe exclude stupidity, such as work, education, wealth...
In 1976, economist Carlo Cipolla, in an entertaining 60-page essay, presented the 5 fundamental laws of a force that he perceived as the greatest existential threat to humanity: stupidity.
Based on the benefits and losses that a person provides for himself and others, he classifies people into four main categories: intelligent, thugs, naive, and fools. Initially, he shared this theory only with his friends, but later it became internationally known and is now studied in many disciplines.
Law 1: Everyone always inevitably underestimates the number of fools in circulation.
No matter how many fools we suspect you are surrounded by, we always underestimate the total. This is because we consider some people intelligent based on characteristics that we believe exclude stupidity, such as work, education, wealth.
For example, Zeqineja and Sara could be wrongly excluded from the category of fools because they are politicians. This leads us to the 2nd law:
Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Cipolla considered stupidity "as a human characteristic, like having blond hair or black eyes. Consequently, it cannot but be distributed approximately equally in all spheres of society, regardless of people's educational level."
Third Law: A fool is one who causes loss to another person or a group of people, being used without achieving anything positive for himself.
Seen in this context, stupidity is not a matter of IQ, but rather a lack of relational skills. While thugs do good to themselves but harm others, intelligent people do good to themselves and others, naive people do good to others but harm themselves, stupid people are those who harm others and often themselves.
Law Four : Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at any time and place and circumstance, communicating and/or associating with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Law Five : A fool is more dangerous than a bandit. In fact, common sense tells us that intelligent people, no matter how hostile they may be, are predictable. Stupid people, on the other hand, are not. This subtle difference makes stupid people infinitely more frightening than any other category.
Reading Carlo Cipolla's 60 pages full of irony, you realize that there is no more dangerous combination for a society than when it is run by "bandits" who surround themselves with fools.
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