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With the decisive contributions of "ideology", modern stupidity has been able to benefit from a process of purification of any residue of common sense. Until we reach - better we will see - that optimal situation, rare in nature, of "pure stupidity" without imperfections. And without lucid intervals.

The libertarianism-permissiveness , a filiation of ethical relativism and communist capitalism of the maximum license for maximum consumption, has taken care to break the traditional limits of stupidity, which has been able to recover the most complete freedom of action: in unconditional freedom. And even the conflictualist-class idology has left its mark, ideology has fallen, it has left the "culture of the enemy" with a generalized quarrel, as methods for setting up intersubjective relationships: political, trade union, school, sports, road, condominium . Marriage and between the two sexes. 

For its part, female emancipation, confusing equality of opportunity with equality in the stupidity of the fair sex with the superior (or more sunny) male stupidity, equating the possibility of public expression.

From smoking, alcohol, drugs, to military service, to street and verbal rudeness, to careerism and embezzlement. 

From box to wrestling and kung fu. From the deviance of terrorism and sports fans. From access to television to football journalistic language. And to pedophilia.

In defiance of the principle of equality, which wants unequal people to be treated unequally, the democratic-libertarian-egalitarian ideology has proclaimed perfect equality between intelligent and stupid.

With its connatural limit of counting and not weighing the brains, it has thus ensured - democratically and by universal suffrage - the uninterrupted government of politics to the compact majority of stupid people.

The majority electoral system has further accentuated the marginalization, including parliamentary ones, of the residual hotbeds of intelligence. 

What then the vote by roll call and overt has condemned to adapt even to the rigid internal discipline of party stupidity.

The perfect "democratic system of the dictatorship of stupidity", where the freedom to vote lies in the alternative between one and the other bipolar stupidity. SO PARLIAMENT IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE STUPIDITY CAN DO MORE DAMAGE THAN IN WAR.

Less worse, however, than popular democracies, where residual intelligence is neutralized or suppressed.
The progress of the technological revolution is no less fundamental.

With the telematic process, associated with the internationalization of the English language, “satellite stupidity”, “wired”, and “internet” is spreading urbi et orbi, with no more spatial and language barriers.

The "globalization of stupidity, electronic applications to polling systems," have elevated the single probed stupidities to public opinion, recorded in its changing trends, with all its conditioning power of every choice, above all political. 

Ferrando Mantovani
Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Florence
Author of monographs, manuals and articles on Criminal Law and Criminology.

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