DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human CorruptionVoltaire said, “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This witty turn of phrase is pregnant with meaning, and what is taking place is, the one follows from the other. When stupid thoughts and actions become acceptable for the average person, they will not be questioned and, in fact, become a kind of expectation and the norm that will be emulated by others. In the absence of knowledge, experience, and a degree of sophistication cultivated by native intelligence, simple repetition and the familiarity it engenders will become accepted as being the right answer, the right view to hold about a particular situation, simply because one has heard it before, and the willingness to go along with the crowd will allow something stupid to become acceptable and not be questioned. This is obviously quite dangerous a state of affairs, because it traps people in what can not only mean a lack of progress but all too often the initiation of a downward spiral, because stupidity has little to offer. The longer it reigns and is the only thing that is happening, the more of a vacuum is formed by not doing things truly productive and useful, and in a dynamic, ever-changing, swirl of energy that is the physical plane, it is dangerous to simply choose to stand still because this ultimately always leads to decay, to degradation, and a decline in performance and function. There will certainly be no likelihood of a breakthrough, let alone a quantum leap to catapult you forward through a creative impulse that is often intuitive, to bridge a gap in knowledge. Because such things will not be evident in people who are largely stupid in their thoughts and beliefs, it leaves them with little of value to work with other than the most mundane and commonplace ideas and understandings. One can see the damage in being witness to repeated acts of stupidity, most strikingly in the public arena, when such actions are done by leaders who are ill-equipped for the task or are being manipulated in some way to limit their initiative and depth. So instead of inspiration, one will get empty rhetoric, and decisions that are important about all kinds of things in making wise choices in using money and other resources, may well be squandered on bad ideas and make-work projects because poor leaders cannot discern the promising from the mediocre and irrelevant.