People are a lot more powerful than the forces of nature, up to a point! :D

Seriously though, the relationship between stupidity and insanity is something like the relationship between flour and bread, I would imagine. Why, though, are we wired to get into stupidity and insajnity? There's a million-dollar question for ya.

One answer is because we're too stupid to build a working model of how the mind works, a model that provides any prediction and reliable remedy. Psychology and psychiatry, in spite of decades of study, haven't built such amodel and are pretty much hit or miss, depending on inspired individuals and compassion, or drugs.

The same model could provide a better path to education, if it was workable. Whoever invented that method of flies-in-a-shoebox education should have their head examined!

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