Let's start out with the basics: the five 'Basic Laws of Human Stupidity,' as written in the front cover of my copy of the book, are:ġ: 'Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'Ģ: 'The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.'ģ: 'A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.'Ĥ: 'Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. So let me just pound a metaphorical belt of Scotch and deconstruct this bitch. Well, I REALLY wanted to like this one, and I'm still not exactly sure that I didn't: it's complicated.
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