This article is a year old, but it still applies today (and forever, I guess). I am posting it because Keith Olbermann was discussing recently in a podcast this theologian Bonhoeffer who was part of the plot to kill Hitler and who was executed for it, and I found it fascinating. He explains why stupidity is more dangerous than evil and how stupidity isn't what we think it is.

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The phenomenon that is at the root of all problems.

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https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity-explains-the-world-perfectly-957cbb3fbac1