Do you despise intelligence, philosopher?
Intelligence is about … sniffing the air and working out what’s acceptable and what’s not. What’s trending. What the new thing is. That we’re supposed to agree with. Intelligence is essentially opportunistic. It’s about fitting in in a fast moving world. Stupidity, on the other hand … is incapable of opportunism. Isn’t even thinking of itself. Of its own interests.
What is stupidity thinking about, then?
About nothing in particular. About nothing yet. Stupidity’s vague.
I’m vague for a lot of the time. Does that make me stupid? Perhaps it does. But that would be good in your books, wouldn’t it? Except that I’m not, like, exaltedly stupid. I’m not philosophically stupid in some cool philosophical way.
Work in Progress 