The Beauty of Stupidity [+ video]
By Prof. Rafael N. Castro M., MSc. Finance and Marketing
The Beauty of Stupidity
As a social, modern and urban concept, certainly stupidity has its beauty.
There were no social networks, there was no “globalization” or anything in this set of grandiloquent, progressive and modern terms (or backward, as you see), but even in ancient times something was known about this.
Let´s start by the beginning. Stupidity kills people, literally speaking.
It just does not happen as our individual (and collective) imaginary usually believes.
But yes, stupidity kills people, I repeat, literally.
Stupidity may live perfectly beeing lethal too. There is no problem about it. This is one part of its elements of beauty.
It is easy to watch, for example, that when you are a child, you face two types of figures: children and adults.
WHAT WE WATCH IN CHILDREN:
Let’s be clear, it is very difficult for a child to understand as such issues of stupidity, let alone, to conclude that other children are stupid or understand this issue too (do not enter into the offensive, in particular or in very specific cases)
WHAT EVERYBODY DO NOT WATCH IN ADULTS:
But with adults something “magical” happens, something silently revealing. I have been able to observe 2 sadly fascinating phenomena for more than 25 years, at least:
1.- When a child, in all its innocence, its joy, its colors, its laughter with laughter; Says or does something that for the imaginary “of the adult world” or “the duty to be”, is considered “stupid”, the offenses against that angelic child abound, even many of them are unforgiving.
2.- But at the opposite extreme, when an “adult” from the biological point of view means, says or makes a STUPID comment equal to or even worse than the same angelic child would say, we all assume it as an “interesting commentary”, “of deep intellectuality”, “full of content”, and so on. Etc. until sarcastic, satirical and cynical.
That is ballsh***t

Is it delicate? It seems so, but from the “utilitarian” and phonetic point of view, beacuse it is interpreted as an offense. But, is not it an offense the very fact of being or doing something stupid?
I live in Venezuela. In my country, for example, the construction of the collective imaginary has no contemplation or awareness of issues such as: success, failure, death, values, TALENT, work, laziness, bad thing, good thing, happiness, quality life, being rich, being poor, being middle class; etc.
The point is, no one says it, and strangely, it has been collocated taboo rank.
These themes certainly exist, but are “substituted or replaced” by other themes of different colors and nuances.
And as such, people create a “substitute reality,” far from reality.
This “substitute reality”, you see it when you travel in a popular bus, when you queue to buy groceries, or simply; in a job interview.
The same happens, when a poor person manages to go to university and arise in their life: strangely, their family environment claims the fact that wants to arise and stop being poor person.
hahaha .. the middle class (the Venezuelan) has never been aware that it is always only a step away from being poor: at best, it is dedicated only to “living your life”, but under schemes and patterns of the Poor people … and they do not know .. hahaha ..
We are stupid, it is our reality to be stupid. Is it not?
Bibliographic References
a) Livraghi, G. (2011) Power of Stupidity. Planet Group. Printed in Spain. August (Translated into Language)
b) Cipolla, C. M. (2011) The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. Il Mulino editorial. (Translated into Language)
c) Cipolla, C. M. “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”. Available: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/ [Consulted on July 30, 2017] (Translated into Language)
