From reality television to dumb-and-dumber films, contemporary entertainment often amounts to watching stupid people do stupid things.
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"You can't let your life be governed by stupid people, " says Alexandra Seigel.
The Economist is not written by foolish or stupid people.
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But it recognised some viewers "were unlikely to have expected Jeremy Paxman's typically robust and confrontational interviewing style to extend to the use of the terms 'religious hogwash' and 'stupid people'".
Of course, that's yet another unfair fact of life: really stupid people seem to acquire wealth and power with relative ease because they don't have the impediment of conscience or second-guessing reflection.
As I am one of the 'stupid people you make reference to, I will outline my argument for saying GM foods should be banned at least until all the evidence suggests there is no reason to fear them.
Yet people do stupid things, and highly-indebted people do not follow the logic of economics textbooks.
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There are many more cases that he think other people are too stupid to spot them.
He also knew that social fads cause smart people to do stupid things.
Then you tell Facebook to, for example, not let certain people read the stupid things your friends post on your wall.
Wal-Mart people are not stupid and to beat their product development one really needs to have a much higher risk tolerance to succeed at it.
People are not demonstrably more stupid and not a whole lot weaker at 50 than they are at 20.
And when people who did call her stupid or mock her faith or her family, her fans take it personally.
"People who have money make stupid arguments like that, " he said, adding that the focus of his department's efforts was on "couple formation" rather than marriage.
The positive result of all this, though, is that people are becoming less and less stupid about information sharing.
Apple's new guy in charge of retail launched a plan to lay off workers and boost profits, then had to walk it back when people pointed out that this was stupid.
New York is a great town for independence, he says, but the isolation also creates conditions for quirky community: "You have more people here who will read your stupid posting while walking their dogs, and take time to write your number down and respond, than anywhere else, " he says.
Two myths the author does reaffirm: Teenagers do "stupid and reckless things, " and "religious people are happier" than those who aren't.
Useless courses would naturally disappear and non-academic people would not be made to look stupid but would instead be able to go down a career path they actually enjoy.
"I think they have an opportunity to say to the people of this state, look, we can't stop people from doing bad and venal and stupid things, disgusting things, but when confronted with the knowledge, we can act firmly and effectively, " he said.
The smart people at News Corp. are being plain stupid, though, if they think they have weeks to get their bugs squashed.
It is not because the people making these software products are particularly bad or stupid.
We know it's the economy, stupid, but is it growth or jobs that have most bearing on the way people vote?
Sue Cook, the new director of children and young people's services in the county, said it would be "stupid" to say there was a quick fix.
Robert and I are collaborating on a book about the next generation of online technology and he has a stake on my not doing anything stupid in public related to social technologies, so the appearance of my spamming hundreds of people on Facebook was a justifiable cause for his concern.
"90 minutes before the event even started, the line outside was a mile long and five people wide, " he says, and he hit on what he calls "my stupid little idea" for a food truck specialising in grilled cheese sandwiches.
"People have the right to express their point of view, and they have the right to be stupid, and they have the right to be wrong, but they don't have the right under Ohio law to threaten to kill someone, " he said.
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