Yes, this question was inspired by @supercutebutt
Most definitely, it has been in the past, and is more so now with algorithms pasting any holes in your echo chamber. To me stupidity is the inability to accept new data, ignorance is when you simply don't know. You can't blame ignorance if someone is trying to learn.
Anyone who has been in the military saw this face to face. Everyone around you was completely ignorant of the new expectations the path you chose required, then had stupid patterns broken. Later most people got married and divorced quickly though they had other people break that ignorance from their personal experience. I was stupid there too lol
It's more difficult to categorize in the most popular realm of stupidity today which would be politics as "facts" are so contradictory and polarized. The only place I trust for objectivity anymore are Forbes and WSJ as if they lie it affects the money people make, so they have to at least be that honest...
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it is neither contagious or heritable (regression to the mean operates here).
She posted of pic of Trump, but not the guy who can't read a teleprompter or answer a question without the answer on a card.
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I don't think it's contagious, but it is hereditary. . . and stupid birds of a feather flock together!
I think it's contagious. My friend used to say, "If you hang out in the bathroom long enough... sooner or later you'll take a shit." When you hear a dumb opinion you'll notice they have dumb influences.
The current saying about college..."Taught what to think instead of how to think." It's true.
When your associates and circle of friends are stupid, and when you consume mindless entertainment and corporate news propaganda, it influences your thoughts and opinions. Hearing only one narrative rots your brain. In that sense stupidity is contagious.
It's quite an awakening experience when you start meeting bright, inquisitive, open minded and informed people, and start finding resources that challenge your previous views. Stupidity is curable.Of course it is, have you ever seen how tightly all those people in Congress are packed in there? #StayBackSix
Ah yes, Supercutebutt. The one who blocks you as soon as you've successfully challenged her echo-chamber worldview, because you've made a valid point she can't dispute. I was blocked by her within a couple of days of joining GAG. :D
To a degree. Thats why SJWs are so banhappy on people they disagree with, gotta keep their followers stupid.
Yes. Overtime whatever you hang around with a lot, their energy and mentality will have an effect on you as well, including their stupidity.
I hope not but it sure seems like it. You can't fix stupid
Well the person who asked this originally is very stupid lol
Yes, Trump's stupidity spread throughout an entire political party and 6 years later, it seems a few have started to recover finally as his power wanes.
Everything is contageous, so yes. Group think is popular...
Your inspiration for the question is one of the stupidest Wokeys on GAG.
If stupidity is contagious, then she’s Typhoid Mary.
The current Republican party is certainly proof of that. LMAO
No! people just follow others if they are on the up up up!!!
haha I agree! Learned behavior!
Apparently so.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Stupid us as stupid does.
-Forrest Gump- s
lmao... to an extent yes...
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