Why are some people so stupid? Solved.

Have you ever wondered how some people can be so astonishingly stupid? I have.

It’s as if they have no acquaintance whatsoever with logic or critical reasoning and even the clearest evidence and the most simple logic escapes them.

You may even know of dogs and other animals who display greater intelligence.

There is a reason for that.

They’re trapped in their mental projection of reality created by the programming (the matrix of stories) that constitutes their identity.

Nothing outside of or contradictory to this programming can be perceived by the self, because to do so threatens to destabilize, and potentially destroy, that self (which, it is important to note, is only a construct, not a living or real entity in and of itself, though it is “housed” within a biological organism called a human).

Our self is the center of our universe. It can’t be any other way. Our experience of life and reality is through our lens of self, and the self (i.e. the construct) is part of the superself, which is the full extent and definition of the universe. The self and superself are inextricably intertwined, self-defining, and self-referential. We can’t perceive of anything beyond our concept of self, which includes our concept of everything.

We create our concept of self in relation to our concept of universe, and as they are inextricably linked and infinitely self-referential, they can therefore be considered essentially the same thing, even if within that concept of the universe there is that which we identify as “other than self” (but even the “other” is self-defining and can’t be meaningfully extricated from the self-superself universe that the human organism experiences as self).

This relationship between concept of self and concept of universe (aka reality) is quite obvious in religion when the self is defined in relation to a projection of a superself called “god.” Traditionally, humans have given this superself a persona and name, and we call that religion.

We all worship something and it’s never anything other than our self, in some form. Even the god one worships is nothing more than a collective projection of self, a hallucination of superself.

The superself is not only a projection of the idealized individual self, which also represents the self’s concept of reality, the superself also creates a shared self (group identity) that places the individual self within a “collective self” shared by everyone who is running the same superself programming. This creates what we know as an identity group, which is a form of largely decentralized, collective consciousness that could even be called a superorganism, like a beehive or an ant colony is a superorganism. Cults, religions, political, groups, and even friend groups or a marriage can become a collective superorganism.

Furthermore, while this dynamic is fairly obvious in the context of religion and religious affiliation, the dynamic also characterizes the secular self’s experience. Secular people can “worship” the concepts and values that they ascribe to an idealized self, which they also personally identify with, and this collection of values creates a political identity. It’s no different in character and practice than religion.

The self-superself dynamic is common to all people, regardless of what we believe, because it’s how we are taught to create a sense of identity and relationship with reality. So it doesn’t matter if you believe in Allah, Zeus, or some political identity, or even nothing in particular, your consciousness is based on this template as an individuated human being experiencing human society.

And while some people’s self-superself concept are flexible, receptive, and adaptable, and thus capable of integrating new concepts and logic, for other people (indeed arguably most people), anything that threatens that self-superself construct is Satan, Evil, the Devil, the Enemy.

Anyone who represents views that threaten the self-superself construct is the enemy, the Other, and evil.

Extremists are the people who seek to destroy anyone and anything outside of their concept of self-superself.

And this is where the astonishing stupidity comes into play.

People are often incapable of even perceiving opposing logic or information, let alone seriously entertaining it in good faith, because it threatens to destroy the fundamental structure that holds their identity and their reality.

In order to seriously consider opposing information, they need to be willing to entertain the idea that they are wrong, and if they could be wrong, then their entire reality could be destabilized.

Which can lead to total annihilation.

And this is the egodeath that the sages, saints, and wise people throughout the ages speak of.

The egodeath is the death of the self-superself construct that creates Good vs Evil, Right vs Wrong, Self vs Other, Superior vs. Inferior.

Anyway, next time you’re online reading a completely asinine take from a complete moron, now you know why they are so stupid.

They are afraid.