Stella_Omega
No Gentleman
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Samuel R. Delany, Stars in my Pockets like Grains of Sand"Stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. 'Stupidity' is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him- or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or information dissemination results. The process, however, can be reversed at any time . ..."
It's as good an explanation as any other...