Last week's blogs gave several reasons for human stupidity: (lack of) curiosity, complacency, monism / Power, arrogance & ignorance, and (lack of) morality. I considered writing a blog on narrow mindedness as yet another reason for human stupidity. Then a thought struck me: what do all of these reasons have in common? The answer is Beliefs (my blogs). There...
Yesterday's blog mentioned the word complacency. I cannot recall ever having used that word before in my writing. It's about the opposite of (internal) curiosity. Another opposite of curiosity is boredom (my blogs). When we complete the (un)able and (un)willing matrix then unconscious is the third and last opposite. See below for the resultant matrix; click picture...
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) once stated: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” I do not consider myself as very intelligent. I know that I do not know very many things. Sometimes, I even do stupid things. I do consider myself as curious - unlike many others. I'm always interested in the Why...
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