The Power
of Stupidity
by Giancarlo
Livraghi
Contents
- The Stupidity Problem
- Stupidity and Biology
- Predictable or Unpredictable
- Murphy’s Law
- Parkinson’s Law
- The Peter Principle
- Cipolla’s Laws
- The Stupidology Graph
- Three Corollaries
- The Stupidity of Power
- The Ways of Power
- The Stupidity of Bureaucracy
- Stupidity and Ignorance
- Stupidity and Fear
- Stupidity and Habit
- Stupidity and Haste
- Stupidity an Cunning
- The Vicious Circle of Stupidity
- The Stupidity of Technologies
- The Subtle Art of Simplicity
- Problems of Perspective
- Idols and Icons
- The Power of Obscurantism
- Stupidity and Superstition
- Is Stupidity Growing?
- Stupidity Isn’t Harmless
- Quotations
- Embarrassing – or Obsessive?
- Errare humanum
- Antidotes and Prevention
