For example, recently, a couple of weeks ago, the user @mariaxxnn asked this question on X: "What’s a sign of very low intelligence?" As of today, the tweet has 533 reposts, more than 6K likes and over 10.8K various quotes. Without taking into account the inevitable repetitions, of course, it turns out that human stupidity has so many different facets! So welcome to this selection of the most interesting opinions of the thread, made for you by Bored Panda!
Among the points of view presented in this selection, there are both frankly parodic, satirical, and certainly truthful. Both signs that have grown on the wave of modern hype, and some "eternal values," relevant both today and several centuries ago. And even millennia - after all, what is "celebrity worship," if not an attempt to rethink the ancient biblical commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"?
"In fact, in such cases, when there are no clear criteria for defining a category you should always look at the context," says Valery Bolgan, a historian and editor-in-chief of the Intent news agency from Ukraine, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. "Or consider the actions, decisions and words of people from a retrospective point of view. The more time paasses - the better."
"For example, at the time of the Titanic's departure from the port of Southampton, buying a ticket on the most luxurious and safest ocean liner in the world certainly looked like incredible luck and the right decision. But after a few days our assessment would have changed, wouldn't it?"
"However, there are always patterns of behavior that look completely disrespectful to other people and, if they are repeated regularly, can really be regarded as a sign of low intelligence. And, what is most sad, this has almost nothing to do with the level of IQ," Valery summarizes. Yes, in the end, history knows too many cases when undoubtedly smart people repeatedly did some stupid things...
In any case, we sincerely believe that you will be interested in reading this collection, so please feel free to read and scroll it, comment on the viewpoints you find worth discussing - and for sure add your own ideas of such signs. After all, as the ancients said, "there are no limits to human stupidity" - and all we can do is to observe and study it.
