When one considers the current war – instigated by Trump and Netanyahu – there can be no doubt its driven by leaders with a huge idiotic sense of things. Their actions are akin to using a nuclear bomb to kill a canary. Steinbeck was right – All war is a symptom of man’s failure as…
In our modern world, intelligent individuals regularly make baffling decisions. These could be any number of professionals whose contradictions raise concerns. Why such poor decisions? Immanuel Kant identified this trait centuries ago, calling it ‘immaturity’ – the refusal to use one’s own understandings without guidance from another. Kant says society educates and meshes people together in…
While many see war as a terrible and often irrational act (no doubt its a stupid thing too), war is frequently treated by governments as some kind of ‘necessary evil’ in defending sovereignty or response to extreme aggression. The prevailing modern view, especially in the context of advanced, destructive weaponry, is that war is an…
Two X posts on stupidity were made in January 2026 – on consecutive days. The first by Wayne Mathison on 25 January and the other by TonyS. on the 26th, both cover Bonhoeffer in detail. These discuss the state of Germany during WWII and how Dietrich Bonhoeffer sought to analyse why the country was becoming…