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Well I read it again in large part because I had a feeling there was more to it than I was getting (the usual reason for me reading a book twice). I was right. I think the first time the book hit a cognitive bias of my own. The word “stupid” was used way too much for my tastes. The second reading I’d mostly got over my shock and disgust at the word and was able to focus on what the essays were digging into. A lot of it was pretty funny.
The Psychology of Stupidity – Edited Jean-François Marmion 2018 in Europe (where it was a best seller) Translation by Liesl Schillinger /2020 Read by several performers Rating: 9 / essays -psychology (Listened and read)
The word “stupid” is very commonly used to describe or label a wide variety of people, places, things, actions, thoughts, and the list is endless. But Marmion and the other essayists also get into “bullshit,“ “idiot” and a few other select adjectives and appellations. The word is so common in our society today that it’s used by almost everybody to describe almost anything the least bit annoying. (“What a stupid movie,” “That stupid woman!” “That dinner was stupid,.” “What a stupid thing to say,” “That