Table of Contents

PREFACE

  • INTRODUCTION

    Psychosocial Mechanism of Stupidity
    Biocultural Basis of Stupidity
    Pre-Western Stupidity
    Non-Western Stupidity

  • GREEK STUPIDITY
  • ROMAN STUPIDITY
  • MEDIEVAL STUPIDITY
  • STUPIDITY REBORN
  • STUPIDITY REFORMED
  • REASONABLE STUPIDITY
  • ENLIGHTENED STUPIDITY
  • INDUSTRIAL STUPIDITY
  • THE AGE OF ARROGANCE

    EPILOGUE

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX

    • The Story of Stupidity

    by James F Welles, Ph.D.