An Italian economic historian called Calo M Cippola wrote an article in the late 1970s titled – the five laws of stupidity, a theory of how stupid people reason, operate and how stupid people are the most dangerous people on the planet earth. According to him, stupid people destroy and mess up things for other people without benefiting anything from it and how people pay less attention to the dangers and huge negative impact the stupid people have on everyone else around them.
It was a quite hilarious and humorous piece of work but you can definitely tell that even in the humor the writer was making a serious point and a lot of sense.
He asserted that educational or professional status does not excuse stupidity or uplift someone from stupidity. There are stupid people in all walks of life. There are stupid professors, stupid lawyers, stupid doctors, stupid politicians. Every profession can atleast boast of some stupid people.
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According to him, one of the top quality of a stupid person is that they mess up things without benefiting anything from it. A stupid person is a person who will make a colleague lose a job without him getting the job. A person that attacks another without no intrinsic benefit accruing to him is a stupid person.
Having laid down the foundation of who and who a stupid person is according to Calo M Cippola and some of the qualities of a stupid person, you can see that there are a lot of stupid people roaming around the society. Stupid professionals, stupid politicians, stupid house builders and estate developers, stupid religious leaders, stupid freedom fighters, stupid suicide bombers, etc.
Those that are foisting old and ready to retire politicians in Nigeria; politicians who everyone is sure that they have nothing to offer again to the development of the nation are stupid people, those that always plan to hit up the polity with no benefits accruing to them from the act according to Calo M Cippola are all stupid people. The list goes on, It doesn’t matter the person’s educational qualifications or professional status, a stupid person is a stupid person.
Whenever you engage in an act, first ask yourself if the act is a stupid one and take an objective view of it; if other people lose and you gain nothing from that act then you are totally stupid; not my word by the words of Calo M Cippola.
Try not to be included or be found amongst the circle of stupid people, they are very dangerous, stupidly dangerous and it is more dangerous that they have no idea how dangerous them being stupid is and people ignore their stupidity without knowing that their stupidity have a huge negative impact in everyone around them.