BOOK

A short history of stupidity

Jeffries, Stuart, 1962- author

2025

Overview

We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who've become too mindless to realise their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no less witless followers with groundless conspiracy theories and eye-wateringly foolish takedowns of scientific expertise. Our time, one might be forgiven for thinking, is one in which the fool's gold of stupidity has become a desirable commodity, a must-have, with bumbling celebrities venerated more than those who have more than two brain cells to rub together. Jeffries analyses how we got into this parlous state. He considers what great minds have to tell us about the slippery nature of stupidity. If today we are living in a fool's paradise, has our species become too dim to learn anything from its rich history of folly?

• Publisher: Polity
• Subject: Intellectual life History. / Stupidity History. / General.
• ISBN: 9781509563494

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CB151 .J44 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL