A Certain Stupidity Is “in Fashion”

Early 20th Century Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset made this remark about “a stupidity that is in fashion,” implying that different elements of stupidity are fads, like bell-bottom jeans or (we hope) rap music.

And that does make sense, when we think about it.  What the United States is going through right now in terms of Trumpism, for instance, really can’t last forever.  The white supremacy, the rejection of science, the indifference to  the suffering of others, and the cult-like reverence for an orange-haired criminal conman–none of it is sustainable if the U.S. is to remain a prominent world power.