Our Stupidity

Livia’s secret weapon was our stupidity, that’s the thing. Organisational Management can’t reckon on our stupidity.

Our stupidity is the incalculable. Our idiocy is what they could not foresee. We fall outside the usual … incentives. We can’t be bribed in the usual ways. We can’t be flattered. We’re a Problem. We’re an Obstacle. That they want to solve.

We don’t understand our own stupidity, Livia said. We couldn’t understand what we were. What a gift we were. Of course we couldn’t. That was Livia’s genius: to be able to see what we were, as we could not. Livia’s delusion! Ivia’s own stupidity.

My God. Stupidity will save the world … who’d have thought it. So we were superheroes after all. So we had a superpower, which was really the opposite of a superpower. So we really can save the world.

Our idiocy is the hole in this universe – that’s what Livia thought. It might open a wormhole to another universe.

A wormhole of stupidity – quite an achievement.

I thought it was about a black hole. That our stupidity would just suck everything into it.

Our stupidity’s was cosmic, in some sense, Livia thought. More than cosmic! Greater than cosmic!

Our stupidity’s touched upon ur-chaos. Our stupidity’s about the elemental. About the Deep. About chaos primordial. The tohu vavohu.

Are we really that stupid? Are we really that bad at philosophy?

Livia thought so. That’s why she placed her faith in us. Faith – it’s more like an anti-faith.

We’re going to save the world by being unsavable by Organisational Management – that’s what she thought. We’re the least saveable, from the perspective of Organisational Management.