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Stupidity permeates our perception and practice of politics. We frequently accuse politicians,
bureaucrats, journalists, voters, “elites,” and “the masses” for their stupidities. In fact, it is not
only “populist politicians,” “sensational journalism,” and “uneducated voters” who are accused of
stupidity. Similar accusations can be, and in fact have been, made concerning those who criticize
them as well. It seems that stupidity is ubiquitous, unable to be contained within or attributed to
one specific political position, personal trait, or even ignorance and erroneous reasoning.
Undertaking a theoretical investigation of stupidity, Nabutaka Otobe challenges the assumption
that stupidity can be avoided. The author argues that the very ubiquity of stupidity implies its
unavoidability — that we cannot contain it in such domains as error, ignorance, or “post-truth.”
What we witness is rather that one’s reasoning can be sound, evidence-based, and stupid. In
revealing this unavoidability, he contends that stupidity is an ineluctable problem not only of
politics, but also of thinking. We become stupid because we think: it is impossible to distinguish a
priori stupid thought from upright, righteous thought. Moreover, the failure to address the
unavoidability of stupidity leads political theory to the failure to acknowledge the productive
moments that experiences of stupidity harbor within. Such productive moments constitute the
potential of stupidity — that radical new ideas can emerge out of our seemingly banal and stupid
thinking in our daily political activity.
Fonte: https://www.routledge.com/. Publicado em 12/10/2020. Acesso em 20/08/2021.
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Gab. C "The author argues that the very ubiquity of stupidity implies its unavoidability"