{"id":55,"date":"2006-05-29T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T04:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-07-23T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:34:56","slug":"the-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalsoup.com\/mentalsoup\/basic.htm\" target=\"_new\">The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity<\/a>, by Carlo M. Cipolla. An interesting essay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not difficult to understand how social, political and institutional power enhances the damaging potential of a stupid person. But one still has to explain and understand what essentially it is that makes a stupid person dangerous to other people &#8211; in other words what constitutes the power of stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla. An interesting essay. &#8220;It is not difficult to understand how social, political and institutional power enhances the damaging potential of a stupid person. But one still has to explain and understand what essentially it is that makes a stupid person dangerous to other people &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}