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Resumen de Stupid is as stupid does

Sally Adee

  • "Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless," wrote Gustave Flaubert. He was almost unhinged by the fact. Colorful fulminations about his fatuous peers filled his many letters to Louise Colet, the French poet who inspired his novel Madame Bovary. He saw stupidity everywhere, from the gossip of middle-class busybodies to the lectures of academics. Consumed by this obsession, he devoted his final years to collecting thousands of examples for a kind of encyclopedia of stupidity. He died before his magnum opus was complete, and some attribute his sudden death, aged 58, to the frustration of researching the book. Here, Addee talks about human stupidity. Documenting the extent of human stupidity may itself seem a fool's errand, which could explain why studies of human intellect have tended to focus on the high end of the intelligence spectrum.


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