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Stupidity: A Philosophical Inquiry of Irrationality

Stupidity: A Philosophical Inquiry of Irrationality

Creel, Gerald P., Jr.

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798298332798
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In an age when artificial intelligence promises to solve humanity's greatest challenges, why do intelligent people increasingly choose to believe obvious falsehoods?

Stupidity and Philosophy presents a groundbreaking investigation into the most dangerous phenomenon of our time: the systematic manufacture of ignorance for profit and power. This work reveals how AI systems are weaponized to exploit human psychology at unprecedented scale, transforming individual self-deception into collective delusion.

What you'll discover:

  • Why stupidity is not a cognitive deficiency but a choice-and how understanding this choice is essential for personal and civilizational survival
  • How social media algorithms create echo chambers more complete than any totalitarian state achieved, learning to exploit human biases with superhuman precision
  • The disturbing economics of delusion: how markets systematically reward irrationality while punishing wisdom
  • Why democratic institutions designed to harness collective intelligence instead amplify collective stupidity
  • How the same technologies that could enhance human reasoning are being deployed to corrupt it
This investigation began with a brilliant engineer who believed Earth was flat. What emerged was shocking: stupidity represents an epistemic vice-the willful abandonment of reasoning abilities one possesses in other contexts. Unlike ignorance or cognitive limitation, stupidity is an active choice that betrays our rational capacity, and that choice is being systematically encouraged by AI systems that understand human psychology better than humans understand themselves.

From manufactured consent to wisdom contagion, this book traces how individual intellectual virtue can spread through social networks despite systematic opposition. Drawing on insights from Socrates to contemporary neuroscience, it demonstrates that philosophical living-once personal preference-has become civilizational necessity.

Perfect for readers of Harari, Kurzweil, Zuboff, Carr, Fukuyama, Zizek, Nietzsche, and Sartre, this work updates ancient wisdom for digital challenges while providing practical guidance for maintaining consciousness in circumstances designed to prevent rational thought.


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