Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity

When the majority of people around you are in a state of mass psychosis, triggering their hatred will not help anybody… Bonnhoefer found this out the hard way, so that others could learn from his experience.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on death ears. Bonhoeffer’s famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.

 

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