Stupidity is simple to understand. Primate brain activity is metabolically expensive... we spend more calories thinking than we do nearly anything else. And in

Stupidity is simple to understand. Primate brain activity is metabolically expensive... we spend more calories thinking than we do nearly anything else. And in a social species like the bald monkey, it's just pointless. In a tribe of 100 apes, do they all need to think, when imitation is so much cheaper? It's better for one or two to think, and the rest to just do what they do once they've got it figured out. How many use microwave ovens, but have no clue about what principles they operate from? And so evolution has gifted most people with a positively abysmal level of stupidity. They just don't need it, as long as some outlier pops up once in awhile. This isn't some personality flaw. No one raised them wrong, the education system didn't betray them, and nothing you do can fix it. Ever. Because they're all just horrifically imbecilic. And every time you see them do something that appears at first glance as clever, it really is just them imitating really well. They do it so well it manifests as the Flynn Effect on IQ tests.