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(17,367 posts)Fear of being or rather looking stupid is probably one of the greatest fears people have.
But our very polarised and stressed world doesn’t offer many opportunities for correcting past stupidity.
Your post connecting fear and stupidity reminded me of a rather interesting piece I saw a few days ago on an article from a couple of years back on fear:
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/the-fear-frequency-researchers-identify-brain-waves-linked-to-fear-response-352183
It is interesting. Fearfulness probably acts as a powerful disrupter re real learning of all kinds. Which then makes the world more not less scary. The less you know the more fearful you are and the more fearful you are the less you learn and so on. A vicious cycle...
But it is not as if stupidity is a static thing or as if you or I or anyone else is just irredeemably stupid. Anyone can fix a lot of it with learning and then it wouldn’t really matter that much how stupid you once were…
Okay one still may not understand, for instance, whether this is a real paper title or not: The Predicted Fluctuations in the Hamiltonians of Synchronized Quantum Systems (I am just making stuff up…that is gibberish not a real paper and I have no idea how idiotic a title that is). But one would understand enough of the world to navigate it better.
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