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Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say (www.stilldrinking.org)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Willful ignorance.

They put in effort to understand as little as they can.

Maybe that's a personality quirk, maybe their brain don't work right, who the hell knows. But they try to know only as much as they have to in order to do the job.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah

    “The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250314112627/https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/

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