The Stupidity of Hanlon’s Razor
Malevolence loves ignorance.
There are a lot of not-so-good things happening in our world today.
Some of us seem to have the superpower to ignore these realities, leading a seemingly ignorance-loves-bliss life.
But others can’t ignore the insights of their own minds, which disturbingly point to the fact bad things seem to happen a lot, and not all of them can be explained away by stupidity.
Indeed, it seems, if we’re honest, malevolence is far greater of an influence than we’ve been led to believe.
Halon’s Razor
Hanlon's razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
It's a fallacy.
Think: "The greatest trick the devil played on man was convincing him he didn't exist."
Russian Defector and former KGB agent, Yuri Besmnoff, describes with shocking detail and authority, how successful the Soviets were in using stupid people to pull off their malevolent agendas.
In truth, the greatest forms of malice require stupid people to pull off. Dupes, dimwits, useful idiots, and so on, are the expert criminal and psychopath's most useful allies.
We cannot find any examples of malevolent behavior in government, institutions, or life in general, where stupidity, ignorance, and incompetence didn’t play an enabling role.
Examples of Malevolence Enabled by Stupidity
People who ignore the warning signs—thereby make what is warned about possible.
People who ignore their conscience—thereby making unconscionable things possible, like incest, rape, and abuse of all types.
People who believe the government is too disorganized to be intentionally corrupt—thereby enabling corruption through lack of vigilance.
People who believe blind trust in authority is a safe bet—thereby allowing authorities to engage in corruption unchecked.
People who trust private lawless international bankers with economic management—thereby enabling the bankers to continue their global conquest via finance.
Now that I’ve listed a few instances where idiotic behavior enabled malevolence, go through these items and see if you can list what they enable. I’ll look for your answers in the comments section.
People who believe vaccines are safe while ignoring immunity granted to vaccine manufacturers.
People who take experimental injections that clearly hurt and kill people all while claiming it's anti-science (anti-reason) to question their efficacy.
People who in one breath say there are no objective genders and in the next breath demand you say their preferred pronouns.
People who believe cutting healthy parts of a body off is OK, as long as it's for religious or gender-affirming reasons.
People who place blind and absolute trust in politicians, experts, and officials who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy liars and frauds.
People who ignore the history of child sacrifice while glorifying abortion and decrying mothers as anti-feminist.
People who think greed explains all corruption while ignoring the use of financial systems for top-down control and systemic theft.
People who believe ignoring bad things make them go away.
People who believe the long history and traditions of tyrannical bat-shit-crazy rulers miraculously ended in the 20th century when most of them decided to "give all their money to charity."
People who believe using free technology comes at no hidden cost.
People who believe pharmaceuticals were, on the whole, invented to genuinely improve human health.
People who believe alternative healthcare was wiped out by the Rockefeller’s because it was “pseudo-science.”
People who believe elections and voting is safe and secure and always have been.
People who believe science is decided by committee and consensus.
People who believe mass media was invented to educate instead of propagandize.
People who believe institutional corruption can be solved by firing leadership while keeping the underlying structure in place.
People who believe we can solve the debt crisis by going into more debt.
People who believe infants can't experience pain or trauma because early memories fade with age.
People who believe unchecked power doesn't corrupt.
People who believe we live in a Democracy without acknowledging how little their will and interest are expressed in civil life.
People who believe the education system was designed to prepare children for adult life.
People who believe all debts should be honored no matter how predatory, dishonest, or unfair.
People who believe computer systems weren’t built with backdoors.
People who believe criminal syndicates have no relationship with intelligence agencies.
People who believe diet plays no role in health and wellness.
People who believe what happens behind closed doors in no way affect public life.
People who believe it's impolite to speak honestly about harm, suffering, corruption, and malfeasance in our country.
And lastly, people who believe Joe Biden actually received 81 million votes in the 2020 election against Trump.
True malevolence is so far beyond what normal people think is possible.
Truly malevolent people (like Justin Trudeau, Klaus Schwab, Hitler, and the like) flourish in the places citizens refuse to peer into as a society.
Why we cower?
Why do we cower away from the obvious insanity of believing that malevolence doesn’t exist?
Why is it so hard for us to accept that bad people spend their time coming up with ways of doing bad things?
It’s a long discussion.
Briefly, maturity in terms of intellectual, spiritual, or moral development, does not come with age. It comes with the courage to face new information, experiences, and things—especially those things that threaten our beliefs or personal passions.
In a healthier society, one where the horrors of life are faced with courage, we teach our children to be on guard for troublesome stability.
Troublesome stability is what any person, family, society, or nation faces when it begins to believe in its own omniscience and power. It’s when, often unconsciously, we begin to reject new information, new beliefs, new ideas, and most critically, new horrors. It’s when a society begins to ignore bad things instead of facing them to truly guard against them.
When bad things happen, especially when it’s intentional, this is unsettling.
No one wants to discover that their friend or family member intentionally committed a malevolent act, such as rape, theft, or lying. But these things happen all the time. As a matter of fact, malevolent behavior is one of the consistent elements of human life all throughout history.
Human beings have always embraced evil when we reject the source of truth, beauty, and goodness, to put it religiously. In this sense, evil is that which one believes or knows to be bad, harmful, or against moral or divine law.
We can also define evil non-religiously as any belief, feeling, or action that a social group finds taboo or bad.
The human mind was designed to identify and navigate both sources. But they can conflict with each other in that, what is truly evil or malevolent might not be recognized by a social group. Or conversely, what is truly good might be labeled evil by a social group.
For humans, social realities are “more real” than actual realities—narrative and story is where man lives, not in reality itself. While man can dwell in the narratives of his own making for a time, he will eventually smash himself against the sandbars of that which he refuses to gain knowledge of. Man’s maps seem complete to him, but they are and will always be imperfect and lacking. This is why man needs to form a lasting and fruitful relationship with the truth, an effortful process not a passive one.
On the point of man’s beliefs influencing his experience, in some cultures, female orgasm was a sign of evil, considered sinful, hence the practice of female circumcision was meant to make sex not pleasurable, and therefore less evil, for women. In other cultures, orgasm was considered critical to ensure conception and fertility.
Of course, the objective reality didn’t change. And yet, a person’s experience of this natural part of life did change, depending on their cultural background, and this change was not trivial. For sex, for instance, the frame or narrative around the activity contributes more to the experience of it than the activity itself. And this is true for many other aspects of human life.
As social creatures, we are hard-wired to stay away from socially taboo things, which feel icky and disgusting—shameful if we’ve partaken of them—and move toward socially acceptable things, which feel inspiring, noble, and worthy of reverance by others.
What happens when a society is organized around a set of dogma, a rigid belief system, and that belief system is itself used by an elite to keep rigid control over people in that society? What you get is a socially reinforced fear of anything outside of that rigid belief system. You get superstition, cult-like behavior, and a culture that values self-deception over self-expansion.
In other words, when a social system labels bad things as good and good things as bad, it creates an environment where true evil and malevolence go unnoticed or are even embraced by some people.
Psychologically, the mind is deeply confused and conflicted by the break between what is experienced personally and what is acknowledged socially, unable to decide what should and should not be embraced. This social system doesn’t make practical sense, it’s not useful, and therefore tends to spark counterculture.
In our world, we have many, many examples of mainstream beliefs that don’t sync up with reality—and are therefore false. Some of us decide to stop believing in the lie and as a result we’re cast out for not paying homage to the cultural delusion, be it the 2020 Biden win, vaccine safety, or that men can be women and women can be men.
Does this sound familiar?
In the trans movement, abandoning objective truth is seen as virtuous. Boys can be girls and vice versa. Once a person has accepted this patently stupid axiomatic belief, in effect, they destroy their connection to reality. And it’s in reality that one’s sense of morality is anchored. Therefore, we see a spike in harmful malevolent behavior from those people stupid enough to believe the trans axiom.
Now by stupid here, I don’t intend to poke fun or use the term as a pejorative. I mean, technically, believing in untruth things, especially things that one can argue are obviously untrue, is a signal of stupidity, a signal of mental incompetence, or an inability to accurately form conceptual representations of reality—true beliefs. The stupidity here is the act of embracing untruth in some way that justifies the error. The justification, for trans people, is the desire to be something they will never be—a Faustian bargain the price of which is one’s connection to reality itself. Once one has imbibed the deadly hemlock that is the trans ideology, they go out into the world sowing seeds of stupidity that spread on to others, through the desire to fit in and not be offensive to trans people.
The Mental Sledge Hammer of Socially Required Belief
When people believe things they are told they have to believe, upon pain of death, and when the basis of belief lacks completeness, is incorrect, or a mix of the two, this creates a toxifying condition within the psyché.
In effect, it produces a truthphobia—fear of the truth. It also manifests truth illiteracy—an inability to decipher or accept truth in some measure.
When the mind is forced to accept a belief it can’t evaluate, discern, or make sense of, then the belief acts as a wedge, causing the moral and conscience centers of one’s being to compartmentalize, the mind becomes siloed and sequestered, so that the socially required belief can be accepted. Beliefs that one cannot make sense of, in a way, violate the psyché’s inherent sense of wrongness, due to the fact one considers the belief true without any evidence or reason as to why it’s true. It’s a kind of self-inflicted cardinal sin—one tyrants are all too willing to force their subjects to partake of.
When it comes to cults, their bread and butter MO is forced extrinsic belief—beliefs you have to accept without evidence. These beliefs are, in effect, the price of admission one must pay to be in the cult. The cults that last and are successful at inculcating people and keeping them in the cult for long periods of time are good at providing benefits for this price of admission, like love bombing, material wealth, sex, fame, or prestige.
Once the believer in a cult makes the choice to accept the required beliefs and receives their ration of benefits accordingly, the social centers of the brain—which are some of the most powerful—will keep train the new member to never question or dare to go against these beliefs. The brain will make it feel as though doing so is equivalent to throwing oneself off a cliff. Again, the globalists are masters at weaponizing this psychology.
In other words, people have to sacrifice their sense of intellectual integrity, their truth compass, to accept socially required dogma.
Once that break has been installed in a person’s psyche, they essentially have no sense of truth-direction—they can’t recognize how their false, incorrect, or incomplete beliefs affect them, others, and society in general.
In essence, a falsehood or lie production machine comes online within the mind of the person who accepts it. The false beliefs twists and distort new information, generating new lies to cover up the new information, producing more falsehoods in the process.
Normally, we consider someone who rejects true information without a good reason as someone who isn’t intelligent—even, perhaps, someone who is stupid.
New, truthful information, that would normally be welcomed, is a threat. To guard against the threat, the lie machine uses dissonance with the socially required belief, the dogma, as proof of untruthfulness. Moreover, the mere entertainment of any information outside the socially required belief system evokes feelings of disgust, fear, and discomfort—as if merely thinking of new ideas is itself a high crime or taboo.
In reality, it is only a high crime in a rigid and dogmatically centered society or social group.
Remember, these dynamics are at play in all social environments, whether it’s between husband and wife, son and father, co-work and co-worker, or citizen and politician. We’re constantly being encouraged to accept beliefs we can’t properly evaluate, so much so, it’s the norm for nearly all social situations.
Once a person has been “trained” to believe in something they don’t understand, so as to gain acceptance in a social group, that person will be tempted to reject information that threatens their unacknowledged vehicle for social inclusion.
This is when the person becomes an asset for a malevolent bad actor in society, a shadow man, as I have termed it before.
Shadow Men Need Dupes to Enact Their Malevolence
A shadow man is a man or woman that uses their speech to entrap the minds of others so they can use them in their schemes for power, status, and booty—malevolence.
Our world is overrun by shadow men, so much so, mini-me versions of shadow man ideology have entrenched themselves in almost every area of civil life.
The shadow men need the masses to believe that malevolence is a myth—the devil doesn’t exist. To people who believe this, since malevolence doesn’t really exist, bad things happen because of stupidity, not because truly bad actors are taking advantage of people’s lack of vigilance.
This is precisely what is happening. It’s one of the greatest PsyOps ever hoisted onto mankind, one far older than we might admit to ourselves.
It’s one of those comforting and convenient lies. When you believe it, the darkness of the world recedes behind a veneer of accidents, mistakes, and idiocy.
The imbiber of this lie thinks to themselves:
What a relief.
No need to learn about malevolence so you can stop it.
No need to confront bad actors, which can be oh-so uncomfortable and such a buzz kill.
No need to worry about what malevolence happens behind closed doors, cause it’s none of my business any way.
Malevolence Can Never Be Explained by Stupidity
Let’s not dance around the key point.
Hanlon’s Razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is not kind of wrong, or a little incorrect, it’s inherently false by definition.
To be sure, stupidity contributes to bad outcomes. But malevolence can never be attributed to stupidity, not truly.
Why not?
Malevolence is witting action, knowing, deliberate, intentional harmful intents and deeds. It’s inherently intentional.
Stupidity, on the other hand, is accidental action, unknowing and not deliberate, a mistake—the total opposite of intentional—it’s inherently unintentional.
Therefore, by definition, stupidity can never contribute to malevolence—unless, ironically enough, you’re stupid enough to believe intentionally bad things can happen unintentionally—which is a contradiction in terms.
It’s like saying: You can’t describe any objective truth with language—which is itself a statement using language asserting an objective truth. Again, it’s a contradiction in terms.
The fact that the statement contradicts itself within the statement itself and that it’s been used by witting and unwitting propagandists to enable more malevolence—via inducing ignorance in the population—suggests to me that this axiom (razor) itself might be part of a PsyOp.
The truth is, as I asserted in the beginning, malevolence flourishes in the fertile soil of ignorance and stupidity.
Stupidity doesn’t explain away malevolence. Stupidity makes malevolence possible.
I could even go as far as to say that without stupidity, malevolence wouldn’t be possible.
How?
Because, if we define malevolence as the intention to do a harmful act, and harm causes damage to objectively valuable things, then only an idiotic confused person, someone who has much to learn, would intentionally destroy something of value.
In other words, you’d have to be stupid to engage in malevolence in the first place.
Walk Away Point
The key point to walk away with is that bad people, malevolent people, want you, and everyone else, to believe that malevolence is a myth.
They want you to believe stupidity explains everything.
And they want you to believe it to make sure you keep your guard down…. So they can keep doing malevolent things.
We’ve been living this way for a while now.
How has this benefited us?
If you’re like me, you spent years experiencing hardship assuming it was just stupidity. That didn’t offer much in the way of actionable intelligence, save for the response to be less stupid.
What does offer more, although it is unsettling to consider, is that hardships are one part stupidity and one part malevolence.
So in the end, if malevolence is enabled by stupidity then maybe we shouldn’t be so stupid as to attribute stupidity to malevolence.
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ignorant people are not mature — you have to be mature (grown up) to see/understand that.
To be born on Earth (bEarth) is :
taking part in the most severe test.
This is God's school : "Prove all things..."
free will @ work
your/my choice decides — hero or villain, fortune or misfortune, (stay) blindly believing (childish) or (learn to) think for yourself (take responsibility — leaving 'home' ain't easy), ...
Free will includes to reject thinking. Stupidity is a choice.
We all are the architects of our own fortune or misfortune.
Thoughtful article. Thank you so much. In this 21st century we are so surrounded by spiritual malevolence, it's easy to accept depressive evil as normal. We don't seem to know any better.
Granted, the created battle between our Creator's love and Satanic rejection of love into which we are born is front-loaded with potential personal conflict, and is therefore normal - at least in this material world, BUT that doesn't mean strength, creative power, generosity, joy, and love of our Creator's essence cannot flow through us to a life of abundance, sharing, and liberty anyway. We are caught in darkness only when we choose darkness over light, which I for one, seem to keep doing. This should be an easy choice, but is not - at least not for hard learners like myself. Thanks again.