21 October

The world seems more stupid today. I know a lot of people feel that. It's not because individual people are getting dumber though, I don't think. It's because a huge part of a society acting intelligently is its institutions, which carry the accumulated wisdom of many generations. Those are being destroyed, libertarians call them 'bureaucracies', and replace them with populist boofheads. Good article here on the difference between dumb (individuals), and stupid (groups).