Ruthless Critisicm (September 2012)
Von webmaster • Sep. 10th, 2012 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Critisicm (September 2012):
Stupidity – a useful tradition in the service of democracy
There is no lack of intelligence, only its wrong use – for adapting to a stupid system [Translated from MSZ 12/85]
Whenever stupidity is talked about in bourgeois society, it’s to attack the individuals in whom someone wants to have found it. It counts as a defect that can be attested to not only in others, but also in oneself. Modern people convinced of their shrewdness give themselves a lot of credit for knowing exactly under which circumstances they reveal their diagnosis of others or themselves.
This has something to do with the finality of the diagnosis. Someone who is labeled stupid has been written off: he is unfit, either for his own concerns or the services that others expect from him. Arguing with such a person is not worth it, trying to improve through criticism and help is futile – because of the identified defect.
Whether expressed as resigned self-incrimination or as an accusation – the finding of “stupidity” is very radical. It is owed to the view that dimwits lack an ability that the brainy possess. This ability is called intelligence, and the question of its presence or absence is elitist. (…)
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/stupidity.htm
cf.:
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/msz/html/85/85_12/dumm.htm
