Here, too, is a deeper truth than simply the contrast between the intelligent and the ignorant, who often act stupidly because of their lack of development, having much less to work with, so their thinking will often be faulty and not suited to the problem at hand, and so their choices will be unlikely to be appropriate or successful in carrying out actions to deal with life. For such individuals, it may well not help to have someone more knowledgeable come along to give them instruction. That may well not compute, and the larger the gap between a state of ignorance and inability to think deeply, and ponder significant issues comprised of multiple components, as done by someone who is highly experienced and intelligent, the greater will be the difficulty the latter will have in getting through to reach any level of common understanding.
The tragedy in this is that people who are seen as "stupid" will tend to become avoided and pushed aside, and this will keep them sidelined by their inability to compete because of the impairment they suffer, seemingly in mental ability, when this is often an active constraint on what they are allowed to think in the way their mind is limited by outside interference. So the quandary of how to deal with encountering and working with people who seem stupid is as much a clue that something is more deeply wrong than simply an impediment and inconvenience for a highly productive and smooth-running society.
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