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Today's Good Read, for understanding our current moment.
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Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. “In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,” stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: “under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.” https://www.openculture.com/?p=1122698
Open CultureWhen Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader.