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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
On Stupidity: A Warning
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Uncertainty Makes You Crazy, Certainty Makes You Stupid
The Horsefeathers of the Apocalypse
The Scientific Study of Idiots
Stupidity and the Short Attention Span
Stupidity and Faith
Studies About Idiots That Help Explain Your Job
Bullshit Detector
A Taxonomy of Morons
Backwardness
Rubes
The Universal Idiot
Artificial Stupidity
Collective Stupidity
Gullibility
Slowness
Imbecile, Idiot
Loons
A Theory of Assholes
From Stupidity to Hogwash
Degrees of Stupidity
Folly and Bullshit
A Fool Thinks Too Much
The Era of Mass Stupidity
To Be Human Is to Be Easily Fooled
Get Thee Behind Me, Economicus!
Fool Yourself and Heaven Will Help You
Let Justice Do Its Work (of Digestion)
Critique of the Pure Reasoner
Common Biases (and Heuristics)
Stupidity and Cognitive Bias
Stupidity and Predictive Judgment
Stupidity and Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning
“Bullshit”: A Healthy Term
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Nudge
Kahneman and Tversky: A Beautiful Friendship
On Stupidity in the Brain
Apollo and Dionysus
Margaret Thatcher and Che Guevara
Idiots Are Toxic and We Must Be Protected from Them
On the Necessity of Fools: In Praise of Stupidity
Intentional Idiocy
Algorithmic Intelligence Versus Rationality
Immunity Bias, Impunity Bias, and Optimism Bias
Stupidity or Creativity
When Very Smart People Believe Very Dumb Things
Jimmy Carter and His Letter to Extraterrestrials
Steve Jobs, a Brilliant Visionary Blinded by His Beliefs
“Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right”
Can Anything Defeat Obscurantism?
Why We Find Meaning in Coincidences
Stupidity as Logical Delirium
The Perilous Leaps of “Psycholacanists”
A Few Words on the Profession
The Language of Stupidity
A Shift in the Frame of Reference: When Words Come Apart
The Inconsistency of the Signified: Is a Murderer Always a Murderer?
Blinkered Words, Humpty Dumpty Style
Slogans: The Battle Cries of the Herd
The Loss of Common Sense
Emotions Don’t (Always) Make Us Stupid
Stupidity and Narcissism
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Stupidity in the Working World
Narcissism, Stupidity, and Repetitive Behavior Patterns
Narcissism, Stupidity, and Social Networks
The Cult of the Fake
The Biggest Media Manipulators: The Media Itself
Manipulation on the Internet: The Art in Its Infancy
The Same Old Song
Stupid and Evil Social Networks
Society of the Spectacle, Society of Judgment
Reality? A Simple Picture . . .
An Endogenous Definition of Stupidity
Animated Wisdom
The Internet: The Death of Intelligence?
Stupidity and Post-Truth
Bullshit and Post-Truth
Principles of Contemporary Stupidity
The Passion for the Same Thing
How Dumb I Am!
Stupidity in Disguise
Stupid and Evil (and Connected)
The Metamorphoses of Nationalist Folly
Democracy: From Reason to the Passions
The Group Ideal and Its Opposite
The Return of Magicians
Populism Recruits in Every Sphere
How Can We Fight Collective Error?
Too Much Hierarchy Kills
Unanimity? Mistrust!
We All Consume Like Fools
The Paradoxes of Abundance
The Human: The Animal That Dares All
The Teat of Illogic
The Teat of Ignorance
The Teat of Rationalization
More Meat Than Reason
What Can Be Done About Assholes?
The Bully
The Racist Asshole
Homophobic Assholes
Stupidity from the Child’s Perspective
Do We Dream of Stupidity?
A Lot of Stupid Dreams
Stupid for a Day, Stupid Always?
A Dream, or the Awakening of the Inner Idiot Who Sleeps Within Us?
The Dreamer, an Incompetent, Gullible Fool?
Stupidity in Dreams: A Healthy Experience?
The Stupidity of Dreams, a Dormant Intelligence?
The Worst Stupidity Is Thinking You’re Smart
Making Peace with Your Stupidity
In Search of Unconditional Self-Acceptance
Toward Self-Compassion
The Virtues of the Excuse
When Excuses Do Harm
Shameless
Unconditional Self-Acceptance
Stupidity Is the Background Noise of Wisdom
Contributors
Notes
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