>>jger15+(OP)
Maybe saying "most people are stupid" is wrong. I know even medieval peasants had to be knowledgeable about a lot to farm and survive.
However, I do believe most people are uncurious. Since information is so cheap, it seems many people just reach for what feels good and doesn't risk their existing worldviews.
>>roland+sb
I don't think having a lot of information is intelligence. Plenty of medieval peasants were stupid and a small percentage could combine information into new things for the idiots around them to repeat. During a short period copied behavior traveled less well and it was more obvious how stupid the median person was.
>>fredfi+Wc
I'd argue that an idiot peasant who sees something that works and adopts it is smarter than the anti science people we have yammering on social media right now!