Ignorance Is Engineered Into The System Of Control.
O Emburrecimento programado: A engenharia da ignorância coletiva.
Programmed Stupidity: The Engineering of Collective Ignorance.
"We live in an era where knowledge is at our fingertips, but understanding has become a rare commodity. The phenomenon of 'programmed stupidity' doesn't emerge as paranoid fantasy, but as an uncomfortable diagnosis: the more access we have to information, the less capacity we develop to filter it, interpret it, and question the ready-made versions handed to us. It's as if they've discovered there's no need to censor ideas when you can simply saturate people's minds with superficial distractions.
The degradation of education, in turn, doesn't seem like an administrative error, but rather a carefully calibrated mechanism. A people who don't master logic, history, reading, or critical analysis become dependent on official narratives, accept any ready-made explanation, and react aggressively to anyone who tries to think differently. They're the ideal population for any power that prefers obedient followers over conscious citizens.
Meanwhile, incessant entertainment turns the brain into a passive receptor. The logic is simple: keep everyone busy, emotional, rushed, and above all, unable to stop and reflect, because reflection is dangerous. Deep thought generates questioning; questioning generates resistance; resistance bothers those comfortable at the top. Thus, collective brutishness stops being a side effect and becomes a precise instrument of domination.
In the end, the great irony is that we don't need explicit dictatorships to limit thought when the people themselves learn to reject complexity and prefer superficiality. 'Programmed stupidity' works because it offers relief: thinking hurts, questioning tires, understanding requires effort. And while many content themselves with the easier version of reality, those who manipulate the mechanisms continue operating in the shadows, always grateful to live in a society that, little by little, has unlearned how to think."
[image and text by Revellati]
