During their political campaigns, they take advantage of people’s problems, pretending to care.
They recite community problems until their eyes turn teary.
They visit your miserable health centres and shanty schools and shake their heads in concern, feigning disbelief.
They
Carlo Cipollo’s book, ‘The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity’ (1976) is an insightful piece. While stupidity is one of the biggest problems of the world, it is scarcely researched and taught about. We don’t understand it that much. Thus we are often left to wonder: ‘How can an