be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “After Ten Years,” reflections on living in Nazi Germany, 1942

part of humankind with stupidity…under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances…Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also