They're part of a study in human stupidity".
Even the age of Louis XIV exhibited "a history of human stupidity".
"I think people who say this have set a new standard for human stupidity".
This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.
It's perhaps appropriate for someone whose subject is so often human stupidity, his own included.
Putting it down to just human stupidity or wishful thinking won't do.
He will rage, as he leaves, against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness, not just the dying of the light.
By the end of 1862, these families understood the national anger at the corruption of the war effort, at the incompetence of politically appointed generals, and at the pernicious mix of human weakness, stupidity and bloody-mindedness that had so successfully exacted its pound of flesh.
If so many of you liked, then perhaps it's worth trying to appreciate, and not watch it through the lens of Michio Kaku (who says that aliens of such an advanced intelligence wouldn't even bother landing on Earth, let alone put up with human beings' stupidity).
It takes the ordinary human traits of stupidity, selfishness, lust and greed (and also stupidity), embeds them in a human condition that is confusing, unfair and also stupid, and turns the whole sorry spectacle into a carnival.
"It takes the ordinary human traits of stupidity, selfishness, lust and greed (and also stupidity), embeds them in a human condition that is confusing, unfair and also stupid, and turns the whole sorry spectacle into a carnival," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
