The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity’ (1976) is an insightful piece.

Carlo Cipollo’s book, ‘The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity’ (1976) is an insightful piece. While stupidity is one of the biggest problems of the world, it is scarcely researched and taught about. We don’t understand it that much. Thus we are often left to wonder: ‘How can an intelligent person like X make such a stupid decision?’ ‘How can so and so support such a stupid agenda/idea?’

This video explains some of the basic 5 principles of Stupidity by Cipollo, for those who might not find or be able to read the book