Is Stupidity a Disease?

While I was nourishing my brain for the past two years with the study of Psychology, I’ve investigated a wide spectrum of psychological experiments and research that explore individual differences, revolutionary treatment for depression, memory manipulation and even the perceptual abilities of babies.

Yet, no psychologist has dared to paddle into the mystical dark waters of human stupidity.

There’s no end to the evidence of stupidity on our planet. When I see stupidity in action, it makes me wonder if stupidity is a disease that has swept over the world infecting countless millions of people in all stations in life.

How do I classify stupidity? Well, it is easier to state what stupidity is not. Not having the relevant education or experience doesn’t make you stupid. Relinquishing your human right of free independent thought to others, because you don’t want to think for them, doesn’t make you stupid, just deadbeat lazy.

Stupidity is when you don’t know HOW to think.

Maybe a few nerves don’t function; maybe they don’t know how to utilize their brain; maybe no one has ever taught them how to think; maybe they missed that day in school. Who knows? Psychologists of the world, I demand answers!

I’d be the first to admit that I sometimes would have a slow moment or from time to time engage in a brainless act. It’s only human!

HOWEVER,

There are serial dimwits lurking out there, not in the shadows, but in broad daylight, waving their “I am stupid” flag proudly. Worse yet, we sometimes have them as managers, CEOs, or government officials, where they are supposed to be representing the public interests.

The stupidity pandemic is looming closer with the disease showing early signs of spreading outside this planet. Ministers of the world should unite to find a cure because Stupidity does kills! Stupidity is just as destructive as terrorism, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a war against Stupidity. That might actually make a difference.

In the words of Albert Einstein “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”`