Modern life multiplies new forms of stupidity—cliché, mass conformity, bureaucratic and digital idiocy—even if overall intelligence or education increases.
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
A shift occurred from a post-truth crisis toward widespread public stupidity that undermines objective knowledge and enables media amplification of falsehoods.
A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review comfortably dumb?
Stupidity is a multifaceted, historically shifting concept with definitional ambiguity, encompassing ignorance, foolishness, obtuseness, and cognitive failings reframed by the Enlightenment.