Stupidity is a social product, not a natural capacity

Evidence

But even if it had been stupidity, it would have been historically comprehensible; stupidity is not a natural quality, but one socially produced and reinforced. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 120

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The stupidity of technicians is a proliferation, not an absence, of thought — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 151; Stupidity is socially produced and harms oppressors as much as the oppressed — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1010; Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Stupidity is socially produced and harms oppressors as much as the oppressed #expands (0.92) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1010
• Stupidity is a scar left where curiosity or impulse was crushed by coercion #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 266
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions #corroborates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499