> The confident incorrectness they breed is a problem. Looking at America here in 2025, it sure seems like the confidently incorrect are confidently and succes

> The confident incorrectness they breed is a problem. Looking at America here in 2025, it sure seems like the confidently incorrect are confidently and successfully convincing the submorons that they are correct, despite their both being incorrect. I sure seems like a kind of tensegrity of willful ignorances. But definitely there are a shitton of folks that are both far too stupid to know how stupid they are, while also being way too overconfident that they're smarter than the actual smart folks. Dunning-Kruger really exposed the majorities. And there's that quote about change only coming when the old generation dies out; not because they willingly learned and humbly levelled themselves up.