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Foolishness is infinitely more fascinating then intelligence.

Intelligence has limits while foolishness has not.

Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a french film director.
Before beginning his career as film maker, he was a critic for the influential film
magazine Cahiers du cinéma. The quotation "foolishness is infinitely more fascinating
than intelligence…. Intelligence has limits while foolishness has none." belongs to him. I
had to admit that from a poin of view, he is kinda right.

First of all, from my point of view, human foolishness has an old history. Let's
take for an example, case of Tycho Brahe. In the XVI century, you have to wait for other
people to finish eating, before you can leave the table, otherwise it was like an insult for
the rest of them. After he consumed a huge quantity of alcohol, from an excessive
politeness, he refused to go to the bathroom, even if the need was urgent. After that, his
bladder was blocked and he died after 11 days. What I am considering here as a
foolishness, is the high society, where all the people were "perfect" and they had stupid
and kinda weird rules and manners. Of course that intelligence has led to the most big
inventions of human kind, but intelligence was manifested in a different way, unlike
foolishness, like in the case from above.

In a second idea, i believe that human kind can make a lot of things with theyr
intelligence. But every single person may do a thousand unknown and who-knows-what
things. We can see this cases in every day at TV and on the Internet. If in the first idea I
presented a "short history" of the stupidity, in this second point of view I will talk about
the "modern stupidity". Today, fools and crazy people are all around us. It may be that
man with that little dog who walks in every morning at 7 a clock, our neighbor from next
door, etc. Anyone can be "Cioaca and Elodia", "The porno teacher" or "The porno
student". But they all do stuffs like having fights live at TV for rating, for simply reason
that they think like a star, but they all are "stars wannabe" who make stupid things to
attract the attention on them. They thinking in a manner that everybody laughs about
them, but they refuse to see it and they only think that "they are the best". Of course,
intelligence is afirmed in a discrete way and we can make a quotation here: "better
remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act." (Annie Besant).

The third argue isn't about foolishness. It's only about intelligence and how that
changed the world. Firstly, we know that afirmations of intelligence were made since
thousand years ago and here we can talk about Pitagora, Sofocle, Aristotel etc. They
developed theories and assumptions with primitive instruments, without technology, and
people still use them day-by-day. And most recently, we can talk about Newton, Edison,
Einstein etc. They all invented things that are usual and unmissed from day-by-day lifes
of human kind.

By bringing this argues and analizing the advantage that ingelligence have it from
always against human stupidity, the things that people make it only beacause they are a
fool (and there are a lot of things...), we can only say that the quote "Foolishness is
infinitely more fascinating then intelligence. Intelligence has limits while foolishness has
not." is true and there is no human kind who can say that is not true.

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