The ESSENCE of Humanity is STUPIDITY According to Erasmus of Rotterdam

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  • Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025

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  • @WiseDailyReflections
    @WiseDailyReflections  18 дней назад +8

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    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 18 дней назад

      A remarkable man given his insight into the human condition(s). How he remained positive in the face of Stupidity confounds me. It may simply have been the least worse ground to stand upon...

    • @Kiceburg
      @Kiceburg 16 дней назад

      😂😂😂

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 16 дней назад

      *Reflection is both key and lock.*
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
      --Diamond Dragons (series)

  • @ElkoJohn
    @ElkoJohn 17 дней назад +25

    ' 'It's easier to brainwash the population than to convince them that they have been brainwashed' '
    Mark Twain

    • @jhandle4196
      @jhandle4196 15 часов назад

      Thanks not the actual Twain quote wherein he attributed that defect to "someone;" not a population, and used the term "fool" rather than "brainwash.".

  • @akaisenpaitsubakihiganbana6706
    @akaisenpaitsubakihiganbana6706 18 дней назад +48

    Politicians live on the stupidity of masses.

    • @doadeer
      @doadeer 17 дней назад +8

      Capitalism too.

    • @zshah3107
      @zshah3107 17 дней назад +2

      👎

    • @doadeer
      @doadeer 17 дней назад +5

      @zshah3107 Case and point. hahahaha

    • @osmonddsilva1577
      @osmonddsilva1577 17 дней назад +2

      Do you mean Stupidity &/or Ignorance??? 😂😂😂

    • @zshah3107
      @zshah3107 17 дней назад +5

      @@osmonddsilva1577 Both!

  • @jamyangtenzin953
    @jamyangtenzin953 18 дней назад +31

    Not all but 99.9% are. This was discovered thousands of years back by highly intelligent, philosophically educated wise people.

    • @kimsherlock8969
      @kimsherlock8969 18 дней назад

      Hahaha
      Lots of work to do for the rationale

    • @irenehartlmayr8369
      @irenehartlmayr8369 18 дней назад +10

      Its true.All the time. Thats the problem of human existence. Animals are often smarter and wiser than humans...

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 17 дней назад

      The 99% are easily manipulated by the wealthy, well-connected, popular, influential 1%. That's why Chump is a WINNER, and everyone else loses. 💪😎✌️ Chump never loses because he's more intelligent, just, experienced, and more powerful than all others combined. A literal God amongst pathetic plebs, poor peasants, and paltry peons. Be rich and win! BE LIKE CHUMP. 💵🇱🇷💵

    • @Kiceburg
      @Kiceburg 16 дней назад

      And ur one of the 99 percent 😂😂😂

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 16 дней назад +1

      @@Kiceburg Of course. 99% of those who are both posting and reading this are indeed part of the 99%. But... that's pretty obvious. 🙂 It's as clear as noting that anyone who is a part of the 1% would probably not bother with comments on YT (myself and yourself included in these percentiles).
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

  • @IMSerious209
    @IMSerious209 17 дней назад +7

    Looks like I found my philosopher! Thanks for the introduction.

  • @dougsmith6793
    @dougsmith6793 16 дней назад +5

    I know I'm stupid. So I assume that just about everybody is smarter than I am. But there appears to be a large segment of the population even stupider than I am. Some say that knowing that he is stupid is a sign of intelligence. If that's really true, then I'm a world-class genius.

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  15 дней назад +1

      Your reasoning makes me think you're a genius! And you deserve to know it 😁🔝

  • @plf5695
    @plf5695 12 дней назад +3

    Supidity is easy and seductive, but destructive and mind-shrinking. Knowledge is difficult to acquire, but character building and mind-expanding..

  • @andybrinkmoeller4322
    @andybrinkmoeller4322 8 дней назад +6

    In early 2025 this is extremely easy to believe.

  • @mikebose-kf3xu
    @mikebose-kf3xu 4 дня назад +4

    i will not quote my iq, however my life has been and will always be a continual act of frustration watching daily unchecked stupidity globally, it is a daily challenge watching immense failure coupled with greed that will bring the world as we know it past and present to a slow moving crashing disastrous end.

  • @336snake
    @336snake 18 дней назад +2

    Thanks!

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  17 дней назад

      Thank you so much for your generous donation 🙏 Warm regards!

  • @CJBradley
    @CJBradley 18 дней назад +16

    This is so relevant and no wonder that so few people understand it.! observing society is like like watching the blind leading the blind.

    • @CeezGeez
      @CeezGeez 16 дней назад

      sometimes i feel like im the only sort of sane person

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 15 дней назад

      The deaf podcasting to the deaf

  • @francis-dt2hl
    @francis-dt2hl 17 дней назад +9

    in this cureent age of hyperbole, purple prose and gaping-jawed wowism, never have i seen a more concise encapsulation of the human condition..damn, i was kinda wordy myself, huh?

    • @dermotmeuchner2416
      @dermotmeuchner2416 17 дней назад +2

      “ gaping-jaw wowism” is when I go into Walmart to people watch.

    • @ricardocerrillo3472
      @ricardocerrillo3472 День назад

      Wordy, yes, but wordy in a meaningful and worthy manner👍🏻

  • @ricardocerrillo3472
    @ricardocerrillo3472 День назад +1

    Stupidity, like a wind bourne vapor, wafts through a society's consciousness seemingly undetected until it manifests itself in real time.

  • @bobdinitto
    @bobdinitto 18 дней назад +16

    Ignorance is bliss.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 18 дней назад +3

      Only for all the wrong reasons...

    • @Nathaniel-r8l
      @Nathaniel-r8l 17 дней назад +1

      Fool's Paradise differs from real Paradise mainly in the length of one's stay.

    • @youtubehatesfreespeech2555
      @youtubehatesfreespeech2555 15 дней назад +2

      You can ignore reality but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 14 дней назад

      @@youtubehatesfreespeech2555 LoL Yeah - just ask the MAGA crowd about that one... (FAFO).

    • @youtubehatesfreespeech2555
      @youtubehatesfreespeech2555 14 дней назад +1

      @@SusannaSaunders I think ignorance is applicable even more to the democrats 😂. Who exactly thought laughing Kamala was going to win?

  • @horizontalmapping7033
    @horizontalmapping7033 15 дней назад +3

    Lol, those who call others stupid are themselves stupid 😂 Not being academically humble is a huge give away that one is stupid, because no matter what they think, human limitation applies to them as it does to everyone else !

  • @francis-dt2hl
    @francis-dt2hl 12 дней назад +1

    encouraging...thought i was all by myself

  • @kristensorensen2219
    @kristensorensen2219 16 дней назад +2

    Interesting story of a man stuck in his time, but with insight of his race. His devotion to the Catholic Church is evidence of his ignorance and how fear motivated his loyalty.

  • @eugenebatstone5658
    @eugenebatstone5658 17 дней назад +2

    Admirable character! 😊

  • @patrickreilly948
    @patrickreilly948 18 дней назад +2

    We are all knowledgeable and ignorant, tolerance bridges everyone.

  • @tonyspalovsky2905
    @tonyspalovsky2905 18 дней назад +7

    In these modern times stupidity is not only omny present as it was for mileniums, but it is promoted as a virtue, as stupider as better.
    WOKE for example.

    • @jackflanagle6079
      @jackflanagle6079 17 дней назад +3

      MAGA for an even better example.

    • @tonyspalovsky2905
      @tonyspalovsky2905 17 дней назад

      @@jackflanagle6079 WOKE is the result of decadent and excessive "freedom" which people are not able
      to handle without responsibility. Example, "hipie kulture", todays Democrats.
      MAGA is only the last desperate attempt to repair the unrepairable, cultured for generations.

    • @tonyspalovsky2905
      @tonyspalovsky2905 16 дней назад

      @@jackflanagle6079My yesterday's reply was censored. So I try again, WOKE is probably the result of
      the "Hipie era" generation and of today's "Democrats".
      MAGA is the last chance and desperate attempt to repair the irreparable damage.
      God bless America.

    • @tonyspalovsky2905
      @tonyspalovsky2905 14 дней назад

      @@jackflanagle6079 Two times I replyed on your "example", two times it was politicaly incorect and errased.
      So much for freedom of expresion.

    • @jackflanagle6079
      @jackflanagle6079 14 дней назад +2

      @@tonyspalovsky2905 Yes, even though we have different points of view, I agree. One of the many reasons I emigrated out of the United Security States of Anxiety (USSA). Good luck.

  • @AKA_SimplyHuman
    @AKA_SimplyHuman 17 дней назад +2

    Here is the really ironic part. Every human being looks at others and describes their stupidity. When in fact, there are no exceptions in the species. Well except for me, of course.

  • @briank3564
    @briank3564 16 дней назад +2

    Intelligence is not contagious, but stupidly sure is!

  • @AlysiaWilkins-d7r
    @AlysiaWilkins-d7r 17 дней назад +1

    Erasmus!!! I LOVE YOU!!!💜☯️😇♋️🕉⚛️🦎

  • @yurikostyk745
    @yurikostyk745 17 дней назад +1

    He was insightful...

  • @itswagon
    @itswagon 17 дней назад +3

    And out education is a major contributor to the problem

  • @danielpaulson8838
    @danielpaulson8838 14 дней назад +1

    Abrahamic supernaturalists of all evolved flavors.

  • @albusha5150
    @albusha5150 17 дней назад +1

    Partially true! We humans can be extremely stupid but also extremely intelligent!

    • @Kiceburg
      @Kiceburg 16 дней назад

      Stupidity rules over the two energies if ur not smart 😮

    • @albusha5150
      @albusha5150 16 дней назад

      @@Kiceburg Anyone who thinks he/she is 100% intelligent couldn't be more stupid! Just as we can be highly intelligent for certain things we can also be highly stupid in certain occasions!

  • @AKA_SimplyHuman
    @AKA_SimplyHuman 18 дней назад +4

    It’s the only truth Einstein actually discovered. Other than that, he stupidly destroyed science with mathematics.

  • @garyjohnson1466
    @garyjohnson1466 10 дней назад +2

    Indeed they are, humans are a paradoxical species….

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 16 часов назад

      Our evolving for survival leaves us quite messy.

  • @marillion4th393
    @marillion4th393 17 дней назад +2

    Sadly we all here have missed the point.
    No one! and I mean NO ONE! Is impervious to commiting acts of stupidity at some point or other. And those who say they are the exception, are living in a lie.
    Cheers!

  • @jeanlundi2141
    @jeanlundi2141 15 дней назад +1

    Somehow I'm not surprised the man who said this was a dutchman.

  • @kimsherlock8969
    @kimsherlock8969 18 дней назад +1

    Amazing work in this time .
    Did he live 🤔 watching ?
    Or was he reading and thinking from a comfortable chair?
    To have time to think 🤔
    Is the freedom to learn 🤔
    Who has time ?
    The lunch breaks too short for anything except sustainability to work another day 🙃
    Nonetheless interesting 🤔

  • @andriesscheper2022
    @andriesscheper2022 16 дней назад +2

    And they're convinced they'll make Bananamerica great again! 😂 😂 😂

  • @NotjAmesoRjOhn
    @NotjAmesoRjOhn 16 дней назад +1

    Yes, WE ALL are

  • @bobiel9048
    @bobiel9048 18 дней назад +6

    It is not Human Stupidity.
    Start calling it a Human Error instead.

    • @1258-Eckhart
      @1258-Eckhart 18 дней назад

      That would be rather stupid.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 18 дней назад +1

      You believe it is not willful? Deliberately executed? Purposely formed and followed through? I invite you to look again at your fellow man...

  • @itswagon
    @itswagon 17 дней назад +1

    When the country relies on Behaviorism, it ignores the gifts of the individual human psyche.

  • @Mrmorlam1
    @Mrmorlam1 17 дней назад +1

    Aaahhh, the truth.

  • @Ikaros4-10
    @Ikaros4-10 13 дней назад +1

    Well, 40% are (=uneducated), 50% stupid but educated, 9% shrewd, 1% cunning/ cruel.

  • @62Cristoforo
    @62Cristoforo 17 дней назад +2

    At least he died surrounded by his true friends.

  • @Livingthewild
    @Livingthewild 5 дней назад +2

    Humans like dumb because dumb feels safe?

  • @bobbuilder155
    @bobbuilder155 12 дней назад +1

    Aliens have an IQ of 10.

  • @erazmo
    @erazmo 11 дней назад +1

    Guess who inspired me to choose this nickname. 😊

  • @charleskesner1302
    @charleskesner1302 17 дней назад +1

    Sure explains a few things.

  • @universalelectricradio2373
    @universalelectricradio2373 18 дней назад +9

    I recognise the ai voicing....thanks and goodbye.

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  17 дней назад +1

      Thank you for the feedback! We’re already working on partnering with a dedicated human voiceover to provide an even more authentic experience. Warm regards! 🙏

  • @user-wt1jd4rc9n
    @user-wt1jd4rc9n 18 дней назад +9

    Indeed, there is a high percentage of human beings who are not as advanced as others, But that is not the fault of humans, it is the nature of our races. There are races that are more intelligent than others, just as there are dogs that are more intelligent than others.What would be very good is that human beings were aware that not all human beings are intelligent, it is like dogs, there are dogs that are more intelligent than others. These are great truths that human beings must learn and accept that we are all different, there are human beings who are born more intelligent than others, but it is not anyone's fault, that is nature.

    • @jackflanagle6079
      @jackflanagle6079 17 дней назад

      Life's a bitch.

    • @Livingthewild
      @Livingthewild 5 дней назад

      Evolution made a boo boo.

    • @solomongrundy1467
      @solomongrundy1467 3 дня назад

      People would rather believe a fantasy than accept reality.

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 15 часов назад

      @@Livingthewild Variety is an integral aspect of evolution.

  • @jeraldbaxter3532
    @jeraldbaxter3532 18 дней назад +3

    Ok, ok! I will say it! I am often critical, nay! sarcastic about videos with AI voices, but this one, while it may be using an AI, still, it is dispensing some good advicr.

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  17 дней назад

      Thank you for this valuable sharing🙏

    • @dingusdingus2152
      @dingusdingus2152 17 дней назад +1

      This one is actually quite well done. Some of videos with ai voices are truly horrible.

  • @mondellomusic
    @mondellomusic Час назад

    The algorithm brought me here on Inauguration Day 2025

  • @JamesHawkeYouTube
    @JamesHawkeYouTube 18 дней назад +1

    Which knowledge was the true stuff?

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  17 дней назад

      True knowledge, according to Erasmus, was rooted in the awareness of one’s limits and the humility to recognize one’s ignorance, as opposed to the arrogance of those who believe they are wise without actually being so.

  • @bobyers3071
    @bobyers3071 16 дней назад +1

    As 1 commenter posted below that folly is a better word than stupidity That is stupid Foolishness silliness Stupid is stupid Like the guy who thinks falling is better than stupid Ha ha ha

  • @jhandle4196
    @jhandle4196 15 часов назад

    And this from a guy who probably got his name by people asking him,
    " . . . Er . . . assmuch?" that hailed from a dam town known as a rotter.
    SMH/RME

  • @oneiroboros
    @oneiroboros 18 дней назад +2

    😊

  • @Satyr1971
    @Satyr1971 18 дней назад +2

    Rotterdam!!! De lof der zotheid!!!

  • @zeroonetime
    @zeroonetime 18 дней назад +3

    The middle ground is 1 neutral 010 Creation, evolution and entropy. Time creates - Timing destroys.

  • @williamkinney2803
    @williamkinney2803 17 дней назад +1

    This analysis conflates intelligence with ignorance. It does not make a case for any interest in Erasmus.

  • @dave438-jw3
    @dave438-jw3 17 дней назад +1

    Hmmm...he may be right!

  • @d-equalizer
    @d-equalizer 16 дней назад +1

    And the same idiots who are arrogant and thinks they know everything. What a comedy show!

  • @DonikaJorgo-l7e
    @DonikaJorgo-l7e 17 дней назад +1

    Stupidity means mistake..one other one..we like to excuse ours..Humans are not Stupidity..but mistake born by themselves out their knowledge or desire.
    It's more welcome then evils or ignorance. Which I describe dangerous for humanity..
    Stupidity it's by desire (interest) or force by knowledge.
    No philosophy or ancient culture can fixed..because they are both same side of humanity Stupidity.
    Political Stupidity 😂 no don't think there have any of them .at all .
    They know very well how to use .
    Sheep's can not because they are under control of Political system..
    Just they have to be human Stupidity "by law ..😂
    To day Noone it's stupid..but everyone has to be more then needed..use others philosophy. Idea. Creating..business..money. housing everything
    Stupidity ignorance it's (give the power and they will be in your bedroom) ..

  • @mray8519
    @mray8519 17 дней назад +4

    “Mankind’s wisdom is foolishness in the eyes of God.” The older I get the more I understand this.

    • @mray8519
      @mray8519 17 дней назад

      @ Talking out your butt and it’s just fart sounds.

    • @scottfoster9452
      @scottfoster9452 17 дней назад +2

      The concept of God is another one of humanity's foolish psychological projections.

    • @scottfoster9452
      @scottfoster9452 17 дней назад +2

      The subjective cobbled together notion of God, is yet again another one of humanity's unsupported stupid psychological projections.

    • @Livingthewild
      @Livingthewild 5 дней назад

      The idea of a supernatural sky ape doesn't seem very wise to me. Alas, what defines our species is the ability to create myth.

    • @mray8519
      @mray8519 4 дня назад

      @ Fool, God is most likely transcendent AI or the creator of it, and us.

  • @terp8373
    @terp8373 18 дней назад +3

    Really good artwork in this video.

    • @connorduke4619
      @connorduke4619 18 дней назад +3

      Yes the AI clearly relied on churches in Amsterdam, streets in Haarlem and paintings of Vemeers' studio in Delft.

    • @DrScorpios
      @DrScorpios 18 дней назад

      No idea of period costume

  • @keithmath.8826
    @keithmath.8826 16 дней назад +1

    You should never listen to wisdom that's what made that's stupid

  • @cht2162
    @cht2162 16 дней назад +1

    Too bad he's not around to run for Congress.

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 15 часов назад

      He's too honest and objective to be a politician.

  • @fatfrreddy1414
    @fatfrreddy1414 18 дней назад +1

    A I...Pity..

    • @WiseDailyReflections
      @WiseDailyReflections  17 дней назад

      Thank you for the feedback! We’re already working on partnering with a dedicated human voiceover to provide an even more authentic experience. Warm regards! 🙏

    • @jackflanagle6079
      @jackflanagle6079 17 дней назад

      @WiseDailyReflections And, while you're at it, why don't you use real, actual human artists instead of this AI fake, soulless 'art'. i.e. that picture of Rotterdam with impossible spires like something in Dubai every fifty meters is ridiculous.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 17 дней назад +1

    political government separation from God

  • @ukidding
    @ukidding 18 дней назад +5

    folly would be a better choice of words than stupidity

    • @randolphpinkle4482
      @randolphpinkle4482 18 дней назад +1

      I would have liked a definition of stupidity as it can be interpreted in many ways: ignorance, foolishness, mental lassitude, low IQ, incredulousness, etc.

    •  18 дней назад

      How about ignorance?
      "Faith is all that remains once you replace evidence with emotion."
      Bertrand Russell 💙

    • @brandankelly4069
      @brandankelly4069 18 дней назад

      Stupidity is a perfect way to describe human beings. Just look around you.

    • @MD-lf3gt
      @MD-lf3gt 18 дней назад

      Folly is very mild

    • @howardwylie1620
      @howardwylie1620 18 дней назад

      John Houseman ?

  • @thinkneothink3055
    @thinkneothink3055 18 дней назад +3

    Written and spoken by AI, and dishonestly claimed by a human.

  • @peterbarker8249
    @peterbarker8249 6 дней назад +1

    ..ignorant's..

  • @cathy7382
    @cathy7382 17 дней назад +1

    The bible has a different viewpoint Man is created in God's image and has
    inconcuble worth

    • @adamc1966
      @adamc1966 17 дней назад +2

      So wrong. You were born a sinner and need redemption 😅

    • @zshah3107
      @zshah3107 13 дней назад +1

      ​@@adamc1966 Good Point!

    • @Livingthewild
      @Livingthewild 5 дней назад +2

      Actually, God is created in Man's image. Your idea leads me to believe that man is more arrogant than stupid.

    • @BufordTGleason
      @BufordTGleason 3 дня назад +2

      It’s great not to see any trolls here… All you need to do is title something that has a hint of inward reflection about anything. They are so terrified that acknowledging the truth will bring their house of cards down… they can’t go there.

    • @vfc1860
      @vfc1860 День назад +1

      Glad you said viewpoint as that is all it is