Why do some of us take such pride in our own stupidity? Some people insist that scholarships are only for the needy, not the gifted. That women are not sexual, but only victims. That older relatives always know best. That all men are predators. That women can only be victims. That religion supersedes morality. That Christianity is the true religion.
I have now met a swath of people who are invincibly ignorant. They are not idiots, but they choose to be shallow and uninformed. Why? There is an arrogance to unyielding dumbness. That arrogance is the product of lazy and fearful solipsism.
If I really don't know something -- nothing can ever change me. Stupidity is then it's own reward, it's own endpoint.
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