The argument goes something like this – ‘we need investment in those industries, we need investment to keep the jobs and to create more opportunities. If that doesn’t happen businesses and jobs will be killed off.’ Killed off? Surely that’s a far less sort of killing compared to the end product these companies’ wares will…
An incident where another woman saved her coworker from her ex-partner’s attack. The video captures a 20-year-old man jumping a turnstile at his ex-partner’s workplace to attack her as she tries to escape. Her brave coworker places herself between them, preventing worse harm, while the aggressor targets only the victim. Online reactions highlight how women…
Big Think’s Youtube video – out less than a day ago – entails an interview with Jonny Thomson. The talk revolves around Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity and this video is certainly great in how Thomson explains Bonhoeffer’s theory. There are good and clear examples of what entails stupidity, foolishness, conformity and other things. Thomson explains…
When it comes to the idiocy of this world, people can be either right or wrong about many things, and others in between somewhere. Of course one particular aspect continues to stand out and that is whether things are actually right or wrong. It is both a case of subjectivity and of following an ideology…
A number of times on this blog the putridity of men has been discussed. Besides numerous unsavoury activities against the female fraternity there is doubtless considerable destruction and genocide, as well as men imposing what can only be nefarious doctrines. The male species seems to like the deeply destructive in whatever form it happens to…
I’m getting married in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the stopper, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get me to the church on time. Even better is how the above ought to go…. I’m getting born in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the umbilical, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get…
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…