German philosopher Schopenhauer: Stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt…Why climate alarmists are, well, idiots.
German philosopher Authur Schopenhauer
The video, Why ‘Idiots’ Think They’re Intelligent — Schopenhauer, reminds us a lot of all the idiots out there who are convinced of the AGW crisis and why they believe the absurdity, and lots of other nonsense.
Intelligence sees complexity
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) argued: Intelligence requires the ability to perceive complexity.
Conversely, if a person is too ignorant to see that complexity, everything appears simple and convincing, leading to a state of blissful confidence. Here we quiickly realize how this applies so perfectly to Climate Science, and many other fields.
Some examples of stupid, simplified claims:
- Climate Science: Climate is regulated by a single control knob, CO2! The higher the atmospheric CO2 level, the more violent our weather and climate become!
- COVID immunization: If you get vaccinated, you won’t get sick and spread the disease. (80% believed it and got the jab!)
- Public Health: Wear a mask, and the mask will catch your virus-carrying droplets and prevent others from getting infected!
- Biology: A fetus is just a clump of cells, the center of which is pulsing for some unimportant reason.
- Economics: Just print a lot of money and everyone will have enough!
- Nutrition: All calories are the same. And, dietary fat is bad for you because it clogs your blood vessels.
- Neurology and Consciousness: Your brain produces your consiousness. When your body dies, you end!
- Economics: Permanent trade tariffs protect jobs and industries.
- Astronomy: The earth is flat and it’s the center of the universe.
All the above are examples of extremely complex issues that get (got) grotesquely simplified to a level where the masses of idiots, media and much of academia think it’s settled. For idiots, once you ignore all the complexity, it beomes simple, certain and unchallengeable.
Idiots can only comprehend simple things
And because these not-very-bright dimwits manage intellectually to finally grasp the absurd simplifications, they become convinced they know it. Just take a look at the audience of dummies watching Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth presentation in his Oscar-winning propaganda movie. In the end, they all believed it was as simple as CO2 regulating the atmosphere.
Why are the skeptics intelligent?
Schopenhauer noted that stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt. Really iuntelligent people will always have doubt. Ask yourselves, who claims to be certain about climate science, and who sees that it’s far more complex and uncertain?
If people admitted they didn’t know everything about a topic, they would never have to fear admitting they were wrong later. When it comes to issues of great complexity, certainty always comes from ignorance.
Good post.
That fellow has a hair style just like mine!
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Schopenhauer lived much of his life as a solitary and often irascible figure in Frankfurt. He had a notoriously contentious relationship with his mother, the novelist Johanna Schopenhauer, and a deep-seated professional rivalry with G.W.F. Hegel. He famously scheduled his lectures at the University of Berlin to coincide with Hegel’s, which resulted in nearly empty classrooms and his eventual withdrawal from academia. In his later years, his only close companions were a succession of pet poodles, all named “Atman” (the Sanskrit word for “soul”).
Seems to me he is saying almost everybody is dumb except himself. While Schopenhauer did not discuss modern environmental crises, contemporary researchers have connected his “dark philosophy” to “climate pessimism”—the belief that the ecological crisis cannot be prevented.
Schopenhauer argued that intelligence forces a person to be skeptical of the social, moral, and, often, the rational, world. Based on Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy, he did not specifically frame his advice as “intelligence scientists have to be skeptical.”
I’m certain that the m[iracle]RNA toxic spew COVIDIUS jabs cause suffering and death… hence I’M A STUPID IDIOT!
At least I can make the math so I can still comment…
It is an observable phenomenon that stupid people often think they are clever and their (brainless) insight oustrips the wisdom of those who actually have intellect.
It’s very common among politicians.
Coucou,
on parle beaucoup d’intelligence par les temps qui courent !
Tout cela est un petit peu factice, voir artificiel …
Comme disait coluche, ..”il n’a pas d’echantillon sur lui” .
Je préfére la phrase de descartes au début du discours de la méthode:
“Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n’ont point coutume d’en désirer plus qu’ils en ont”
C ‘est la le piège, comme disait coluche !