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Stupidity is also unregulated cognitive bias. It’s impenetrable.p############################
Peter Lloyd Jones
Sent by determined causes that no amount of will is able to thwart.
On Jul 31, 2021, at 1:23 AM, Jamie D <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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The one and only cause of stupidity, that counts, is fear of judgment.Intelligence can also be described as good judgement.
Ergo, the cause of stupidity is fear of intelligence, also ‘aversion of intelligence’. Simple. The cause of stupidity is aversion of intelligence, not some innate lack.
If minorities appear to falter in IQ tests, it’s surely due to their identity being threatened - the demon in their head whispering discouragement as they take the test.
This stress that’s involved with aversion of good judgement is also the primary cause of nearly all mental disorders and diseases.
I’m shocked to find people get scared by the suggestion that carbs cause obesity more than fat, because if they’re scared enough by that to shun me, then such people would be driven into madness to learn much of anything I know to be wrong with our culture.
The motives in academia and healthcare (being right, and needing another to be wrong) are stacked against this fact, and the cost is too shocking to admit.
Fear of others judgement is the only cause that we might falter in trusting our own judgement, which is ordinarily flawless.
When we can sense others might throw a hissy-fit if we are truthful, we might begin, little by little, participating in creating a reality in which the truth is unsafe, ourselves participating in that we despise…and often without noticing it until we can’t handle the truth ourselves.
I’m reading the book, ‘Before Happiness’, which has the best advice on dealing with this frustration. It still feels insufficient, however.
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