Speaker 1: To understand the modern glorification of stupidity, we must first
Speaker 1: understand what wisdom actually is and what it is not.
Speaker 1: Wisdom is not merely intelligence. It's not data or information
Speaker 1: or even knowledge. As the philosopher Socrates once said, the
Speaker 1: only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Wisdom
Speaker 1: is borne out of humility. It is the quiet awareness
Speaker 1: of the complexity of life, and the refusal to make
Speaker 1: shallow judgments. It is earned, never given, felt, not flaunted.
Speaker 1: But our society has shifted its compass. We no longer
Speaker 1: value depth. We crave immediacy. We no longer revere the
Speaker 1: slow and quiet unfolding of understanding. We worship the quick fix,
Speaker 1: the viral quote, the bite sized meme. Think of the
Speaker 1: public figures we elevate to day celebrities who gain millions
Speaker 1: of followers for controversy not contribution. Influencers who profit from
Speaker 1: shock not substance. Politicians who simplify to manipulate rather than educate.
Speaker 1: In this world, to be loud is to be heard,
Speaker 1: and to be reflective is to be irrelevant. The result
Speaker 1: a generation drowning in information but starving for wisdom. It
Speaker 1: was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who warned that when people
Speaker 1: are no longer able to distinguish between truth and illusion,
Speaker 1: society decays. That decay today is evident. We see it
Speaker 1: in the breakdown of meaningful conversations. We see it in
Speaker 1: the rejection of nuance. We see it in how public
Speaker 1: discourse has become a shouting match, not a search for understanding.
Speaker 1: Th Ask yourself, when was the last time you saw
Speaker 1: a calm, intelligent conversation go viral? When was the last
Speaker 1: time you heard a political leader admit they didn't know
Speaker 1: something and were willing to learn? When did complexity stop
Speaker 1: being seen as a sign of depth and start being
Speaker 1: seen as a flaw. In the ancient world, wisdom was
Speaker 1: seen as the highest virtue. The Greeks revered the philosopher
Speaker 1: literally the lover of wisdom. The Egyptians saw wisdom as divine,
Speaker 1: kine sage. Confucius spoke endlessly about the cultivation of inner
Speaker 1: harmony and moral clarity. And yet today that kind of
Speaker 1: pursuit seems almost laughable. We say we admire the wise,
Speaker 1: but we rarely reward them. We glorify those who entertain,
Speaker 1: not those who enlighten. The psychologist Carl Jung observed that
Speaker 1: thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge. Our society
Speaker 1: has replaced thought with opinion, study with scrolling, dialogue with debate,
Speaker 1: and this cultural shift is not accidental. It is engineered.
Speaker 1: Media algorithms favor rage and oversimplification. Social platforms reward impulsive reactions,
Speaker 1: not careful consideration. Educational systems are underfunded, over standardized, and
Speaker 1: increasingly focused on producing compliant workers instead of thoughtful citizens.
Speaker 1: What does this mean for us? It means that if
Speaker 1: you want to think deeply, you must swim against the current.
Speaker 1: You must reject the idea that speed is better than accuracy,
Speaker 1: that style is more valuable than substance, that popularity is
Speaker 1: the same as truth. We must stop and ask who
Speaker 1: benefits when we stop thinking for ourselves? Who profits when
Speaker 1: we're too distracted to question the narratives were fed? Why
Speaker 1: is stupidity not just tolerated but celebrated. American philosopher Noam
Speaker 1: Chomsky once said, the smart way to keep people passive
Speaker 1: and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion,
Speaker 1: but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. In other words,
Speaker 1: we are given the illusion of choice of freedom of knowledge,
Speaker 1: when in fact, most of it is curated, manipulated, and
Speaker 1: designed to keep us from waking up. But here's the
Speaker 1: good news. Wisdom has not died. It has only gone
Speaker 1: into hiding, like a seed waiting beneath the surface. It
Speaker 1: survives in the quiet, in the unread books, in the
Speaker 1: long conversations, in the moments of solitude that most now fear.
Speaker 1: It survives in you, if you choose to look inward
Speaker 1: rather than always outward. So what will it take for
Speaker 1: wisdom to rise again? How can we reclaim the virtues
Speaker 1: that once guided civilizations, the same virtues that built libraries,
Speaker 1: wrote scriptures, and forged revolutions. We will explore this in
Speaker 1: the next segment, because if stupidity is being glorified, then
Speaker 1: wisdom must be remembered, resurrected, and lived, and you may
Speaker 1: be more capable of that than you've ever realized. If
Speaker 1: wisdom is in hiding, then where has it gone? And
Speaker 1: why did we allow it to disappear? To answer this,
Speaker 1: we must first examine how the very structure of our
Speaker 1: modern world pushes us away from introspection and toward distraction.
Speaker 1: In previous ages, the pursuit of wisdom was woven into
Speaker 1: the fabric of life. It was in the dialogues of Plato,
Speaker 1: the meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the teachings of laud Sux.
Speaker 1: These were not obscure luxuries of elite minds. They were
Speaker 1: pillars of culture. Wisdom was not just respected, it was expected.
Speaker 1: Now let's fast forward to today. We live in an
Speaker 1: attention economy. Your focus is the currency, and everyone is
Speaker 1: trying to spend it for you. Apps are designed to
Speaker 1: hijack your nervous system. News is crafted to provoke emotional outrage,
Speaker 1: not to foster understanding. Schools are under pressure to produce
Speaker 1: measurable results quickly, reducing students to statistics and teachers to
Speaker 1: test preparers. There's no time to think, only to react.
Speaker 1: In this world, wisdom becomes inconvenient. It slows things down,
Speaker 1: It asks questions that don't have easy answers, and so
Speaker 1: society discards it. Not deliberately, perhaps, but gradually, systematically, almost invisibly.
Speaker 1: This is how stupidity becomes glorified, not through a grand conspiracy,
Speaker 1: but through a collective drift toward what is easy, fast,
Speaker 1: and gratifying. To think critically is to challenge your own assumptions.
Speaker 1: To seek wisdom is to walk a road that offers
Speaker 1: no guarantee of comfort or validation. But the culture of
Speaker 1: to day doesn't reward that. It rewards certainty, even when
Speaker 1: that certainty is shallow. Consider how we treat our heroes today.
Speaker 1: Public figures gain influence not through depth of thought, but
Speaker 1: through frequency of content. Politicians are elected not for their
Speaker 1: capacity to understand complexity, but for their ability to deliver
Speaker 1: a sound bite. Celebrities dominate public discourse, not scholars, not sages,
Speaker 1: not truth seekers. What message does that send? It tells
Speaker 1: us that fame is more valuable than knowledge, that visibility
Speaker 1: equals authority, and that whoever yells the loudest deserves to
Speaker 1: be heard the most. We are, in many ways, experiencing
Speaker 1: what philosopher Neil Postman warned of in Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Speaker 1: He wrote, what we need are not more facts, but
Speaker 1: more meaningful ways to interpret them. We are drowning in
Speaker 1: data but starved for sense, overstimulated but under reflective, constantly
Speaker 1: connected but deeply lost. But here is the most dangerous part.
Speaker 1: Many people no longer even recognize the absence of wisdom,
Speaker 1: because stupidity has been normalized it has been wrapped in humor,
Speaker 1: made palatable throughout irony, and embedded in entertainment. When foolishness
Speaker 1: becomes funny, it becomes accepted. When it becomes accepted, it
Speaker 1: becomes invisible. Now pause and ask yourself, how often do
Speaker 1: you consume content that challenges you, that makes you uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: not because it offends, but because it demands you rethink
Speaker 1: something you believed. When was the last time you sat
Speaker 1: with a thought for more than five minutes without reaching
Speaker 1: for your phone. These are not accusations, They are questions,
Speaker 1: and they are vital because awareness is the first step
Speaker 1: toward reclaiming what we have lost. There is a profound
Speaker 1: cost to the death of wisdom. It's not just intellectual,
Speaker 1: it's emotional, spiritual, societal. When people stop seeking wisdom, they
Speaker 1: become more susceptible to manipulation, more reactive, more tribal, more fragmented.
Speaker 1: The result a world filled with noise, conflict, division, and
Speaker 1: very little understanding. This is not merely a cultural shift.
Speaker 1: It is a crisis of meaning. Psychiatrist Victor Frankel, who
Speaker 1: survived the horrors of the Holocaust, once wrote, when a
Speaker 1: person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract
Speaker 1: themselves with pleasure. Our culture is obsessed with pleasure, but
Speaker 1: it is starving for meaning, and wisdom is the bridge
Speaker 1: between the two. It tells us not just how to live,
Speaker 1: but why. And perhaps that is why it is feared,
Speaker 1: because true wisdom demands that we confront the chaos inside us,
Speaker 1: that we look at our insecurities, our ignorance, our complicity.
Speaker 1: It invites us to step into a mirror and ask
Speaker 1: who am I really? Not what I consume or what
Speaker 1: I wear, or how many followers I have, but who
Speaker 1: I am when everything external is stripped away. That question
Speaker 1: is terrifying, and that's why so few ask it. It's
Speaker 1: easier to stay distracted. It's easier to laugh along with
Speaker 1: stupidity than to sit in silence with wisdom. But you
Speaker 1: are here now, and you are still listening. That means something.
Speaker 1: It means that somewhere inside you there is a hunger
Speaker 1: for something deeper, something real. You are part of a
Speaker 1: growing number of people who are tired of the shallow
Speaker 1: waters and are ready to dive beneath the surface. So
Speaker 1: what can we do? First? We must reclaim our attention.
Speaker 1: What you choose to focus on shapes who you become.
Speaker 1: Guard your mind like a temple. Don't let algorithms define
Speaker 1: your beliefs. Read more than you scroll, think more than
Speaker 1: you react, reflect more than you speak. Second question, what
Speaker 1: is glorified? Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's valuable.
Speaker 1: Just because someone is famous doesn't mean they're wise. Learn
Speaker 1: to separate charisma from character, entertainment from enlightenment. Third, seek silence.
Speaker 1: Wisdom does not scream. It whispers, and you must be
Speaker 1: still enough to hear it. Take time for solitude. Ask
Speaker 1: yourself difficult questions and don't rush to answer them. Finally,
Speaker 1: and most importantly, surround yourself with ideas and people that
Speaker 1: elevate you. Build your own philosophical tribe, one that values growth, depth, truth.
Speaker 1: Wisdom is contagious, but so is stupidity. Choose your influence carefully.
Speaker 1: In the next segment, we will explore how this glorification
Speaker 1: of ignorance is not just a cultural trend, but a
Speaker 1: spiritual erosion. We will look at how the modern obsession
Speaker 1: with superficiality is not only destroying public discourse, but hollowing
Speaker 1: out the individual soul, and we will begin uncovering the
Speaker 1: ancient paths that can lead us back not to the past,
Speaker 1: but to a higher state of consciousness, clarity, and meaning.
Speaker 1: The death of wisdom is not irreversible, but the longer
Speaker 1: we wait, the harder the resurrection becomes. When a culture
Speaker 1: abandons wisdom, what fills the void? The answer is unsettling.
Speaker 1: When wisdom dies, the soul becomes silent, and into that
Speaker 1: silence emptiness rushes in. But nature abhors a vacuum, and
Speaker 1: so instead of silence leading to insight, we fill it
Speaker 1: with stimulation. Distraction becomes the new meditation, Consumption becomes the
Speaker 1: new contemplation, and the self, once a temple of inquiry,
Speaker 1: becomes a bill board of trends. This is not just
Speaker 1: a social issue, It is a spiritual collapse. True wisdom,
Speaker 1: at its core is spiritual, not in the religious sense alone,
Speaker 1: but in the sense that it transcends the material. It
Speaker 1: teaches us to ask not just how to live, but
Speaker 1: why we are here. It seeks the eternal in the ephemeral.
Speaker 1: It sees the invisible patterns beneath the chaos of life.
Speaker 1: But in a society driven by materialism, such questions are
Speaker 1: not just neglected, they are ridiculed. How often have you
Speaker 1: heard some one say that's too deep, or you think
Speaker 1: too much, as if thinking were a disease and depth
Speaker 1: a liability. This subtle disdain for introspection is more than cultural,
Speaker 1: It is institutionalized. We have created systems that penalize complexity
Speaker 1: and reward conformity. Educational institutions often reward memorization over imagination.
Speaker 1: Work places reward product activity over reflection. Social media rewards
Speaker 1: polarity over nuance. And yet we wonder why wisdom has vanished.
Speaker 1: It hasn't vanished, it has been systematically displaced. But who
Speaker 1: benefits from this displacement? Asking this question is the first
Speaker 1: step toward awakening. When people lose the ability to think
Speaker 1: critically and reflect deeply, they become easier to control. This
Speaker 1: isn't a conspiracy, it's a psychological truth. Distracted minds are
Speaker 1: compliant minds. Shallow people are easier to manipulate than thoughtful ones.
Speaker 1: This is why advertisers don't want you to think, they
Speaker 1: want you to feel, and governments too often prefer obedience
Speaker 1: over wisdom. The stoic philosopher Epictetus once said only the
Speaker 1: educated are free, but today we confuse education with indoctrination.
Speaker 1: We teach people what to think, but not how to think.
Speaker 1: We flood them with opinions, but starve them of perspective,
Speaker 1: and slowly, silently, the soul forgets how to seek. This
Speaker 1: is the true death of wisdom, not when it is attacked,
Speaker 1: but when it is forgotten. Ask yourself, when was the
Speaker 1: last time you saw a film that celebrated a wise person,
Speaker 1: not a genius, not a rebel, but someone truly wise.
Speaker 1: When was the last time you saw a trending video
Speaker 1: that honored humility, depth, or moral clarity. We don't celebrate
Speaker 1: those values any more. We commodify everything, including virtue. Even
Speaker 1: authenticity is now a marketing tool. Even mindfulness has been
Speaker 1: diluted into an app notification. We live in a time
Speaker 1: where ancient sacred practices are rebranded into productivity hacks. Meditation
Speaker 1: is no longer about stillness, it's about increasing efficiency. Reading
Speaker 1: is no longer about insight, It's about building a personal brand.
Speaker 1: This isn't just ironic, it's tragic. We've traded transcendence for transaction,
Speaker 1: and in doing so, we've lost the thread that connects
Speaker 1: us to something greater than ourselves. But here's the paradox.
Speaker 1: Even in this age of noise, the hunger for wisdom
Speaker 1: still exists. It whispers in quiet moments. It stirs when
Speaker 1: we feel empty after hours of mindless scrolling. It surfaces
Speaker 1: when we sit in nature and remember, even for a moment,
Speaker 1: that life is more than content and consumption. The human
Speaker 1: spirit still longs for truth, for meaning, for depth. The
Speaker 1: psychologist Abraham Maslow called this the need for self actualization,
Speaker 1: the desire to become fully ourselves, not as society defines us,
Speaker 1: but as we are in essence, and that journey cannot
Speaker 1: happen without wisdom, not knowledge, not credentials. Wisdom, Wisdom that
Speaker 1: tells us who we are, beyond our roles. Wisdom that
Speaker 1: reminds us that happiness without purpose is just anesthesia. Wisdom
Speaker 1: that reconnects us to the ancient truths echoed by every
Speaker 1: civilization worth remembering. The Bagavad Gita teaches that the wise
Speaker 1: see knowledge and action as one. The Tao te Ching
Speaker 1: reminds us that knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is
Speaker 1: true wisdom. And the Gospel of Thomas, long hidden from
Speaker 1: mainstream Christianity, records Jesus saying, if you bring forth what
Speaker 1: is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
Speaker 1: If you do not, it will destroy you. All of
Speaker 1: these teachings point to the same truth. Wisdom is not
Speaker 1: outside us. It is within, buried beneath noise, fear, ego,
Speaker 1: and distraction. And yet it is still accessible for those
Speaker 1: willing to remember. But remembering takes effort. It requires courage,
Speaker 1: the courage to be misunderstood, the courage to step away
Speaker 1: from the crowd, the courage to sit with uncomfortable truths
Speaker 1: that often no dopamine, no instant reward, only the quiet
Speaker 1: evolution of the soul. Why is that courage so rare
Speaker 1: because it requires a kind of death, the death of
Speaker 1: the false self, the part of us that wants to
Speaker 1: be liked more than to be real, the part of
Speaker 1: us that conforms to survive even when conformity kills the spirit.
Speaker 1: Wisdom demands that we shed that skin again, again and
Speaker 1: again in order to become who we truly are. But
Speaker 1: what happens when we begin to live from that place?
Speaker 1: Something powerful, something dangerous to the status quo. Because the
Speaker 1: wis are not easily controlled, they are not easily entertained.
Speaker 1: They see beyond the illusion. They act from inner authority,
Speaker 1: not external validation, And that is what our world needs
Speaker 1: now more than ever. In the final segment of this video,
Speaker 1: we will explore what it means to resurrect wisdom in
Speaker 1: your own life, practically, spiritually, and culturally. We will look
Speaker 1: at the habits, mindsets, and inner shifts that can bring
Speaker 1: you back to center, back to clarity, back to truth.
Speaker 1: Because wisdom is not dead, it is waiting for you.
Speaker 1: So if wisdom is waiting, the real question becomes, will
Speaker 1: you answer the call. You don't need to be a
Speaker 1: scholar or a sage to begin. You only need to
Speaker 1: become radically honest with yourself, with the world, and with
Speaker 1: how you live. Because resurrecting wisdom doesn't start on a
Speaker 1: mountaintop or in a monastery. It begins in your everyday life,
Speaker 1: in how you observe, how you speak, how you choose
Speaker 1: what to value. It begins when you stop asking what
Speaker 1: do I want right now and start asking what truly matters.
Speaker 1: This shift, though subtle, is revolutionary. You begin to see
Speaker 1: that wisdom is not about having the right answers, but
Speaker 1: about asking the right questions. You stop rushing to fill
Speaker 1: every silence and start listening to the space in between words.
Speaker 1: You begin to see others not as opinions to be judged,
Speaker 1: or enemies to be defeated, but as mirrors reflecting back
Speaker 1: the parts of yourself you have not yet understood. You
Speaker 1: begin to experience life not as a race to be one,
Speaker 1: but as a mystery to be lived. But to live
Speaker 1: wisely in today's world is an act of rebellion, because
Speaker 1: you are pushing against a tide that rewards instant gratification
Speaker 1: and punishes introspection. You are choosing patience in a world
Speaker 1: that is addicted to speed. You are choosing truth in
Speaker 1: a world that profits from and most importantly, you are
Speaker 1: choosing depth in a culture that worships surface. This is
Speaker 1: not an easy path, but it is the only one
Speaker 1: that leads somewhere real. So how do you begin? First, simplify,
Speaker 1: Wisdom doesn't live in chaos. It needs space to breathe.
Speaker 1: Clear the mental clutter. Limit your exposure to meaningless noise.
Speaker 1: Protect your mind the way you would protect your home
Speaker 1: from pollution. What you allow into your attention becomes the
Speaker 1: architecture of your soul. Second, read, but not just anything.
Speaker 1: Read those who have walked the path before you, the
Speaker 1: writings of Marcus Aurelius, who taught us that our perceptions
Speaker 1: shape our reality. The meditations of tiknat Han, who showed
Speaker 1: us how to breathe through suffering, the insights of Carl Jung,
Speaker 1: who revealed that facing your shadow is the only way
Speaker 1: to find the light. The voices of Simone Vile, Alan Watts,
Speaker 1: Rumi Krishnamuti. Not to worship them, but to remember what
Speaker 1: humanity is capable of when it to turns inward and
Speaker 1: listens deeply. Third, practice solitude. Wisdom doesn't come through noise,
Speaker 1: it comes through silence. Take walks without your phone, sit
Speaker 1: in stillness, let boredom return. For boredom is often the
Speaker 1: threshold to insight. Ask questions that make you tremble, not
Speaker 1: for answers, but for awakening. Fourth, observe your life, truly
Speaker 1: observe how do you speak to others? What do you
Speaker 1: chase and why? Are you guided by values or by validation?
Speaker 1: Are you consuming more than your creating? Are you escaping
Speaker 1: your discomfort or learning from it? Fifth, seek conversations that
Speaker 1: elevate you. Surround yourself not with echo chambers, but with
Speaker 1: people who challenge you to grow, people who make you think,
Speaker 1: not just agree. This is rare, but it is vital
Speaker 1: because Wisdom is not a solo path. It is a
Speaker 1: shared flame, passed from mind to mind, heart to heart,
Speaker 1: and finally, perhaps most radically, learn to live slowly, not lazily,
Speaker 1: not passively, but intentionally. Slow down enough to taste your food,
Speaker 1: to watch a sunset, to hear the tone beneath someone's words,
Speaker 1: to notice your own breath, to recognize the sacred in
Speaker 1: the ordinary. Because wisdom is not found in the extraordinary moments.
Speaker 1: It is found in how you live the ordinary ones.
Speaker 1: Our ancestors knew this, the mystics, the shamans, the philosophers,
Speaker 1: They all taught the same truth in different tongues. That
Speaker 1: the wise are not those who know the most, but
Speaker 1: those who see the most clearly. And clarity is only
Speaker 1: possible when the mind is still, the heart is open,
Speaker 1: and the soul is listening. So let us remember what
Speaker 1: we've forgotten. Let us remember that being loud is not
Speaker 1: the same as being right, that being famous is not
Speaker 1: the same as being wise, That being entertained is not
Speaker 1: the same as being enlightened. Let us remember that the
Speaker 1: death of wisdom was not inevitable. It was a choice,
Speaker 1: and every choice can be reversed. We can revive wisdom
Speaker 1: not as an abstract idea, but as a living presence
Speaker 1: in our choices, in our relationships, in how we respond
Speaker 1: when no one is watching. We do this not by
Speaker 1: condemning the modern world, but by healing ourselves within it,
Speaker 1: Because the truth is, stupidity isn't just something out there.
Speaker 1: It lives within all of us too, in our egos,
Speaker 1: in our laziness, in our desire to be comfortable instead
Speaker 1: of conscious. And that is where the real battle is fought,
Speaker 1: not in the comment section, but in the quiet moments
Speaker 1: of decision. Will I scroll or will I reflect? Will
Speaker 1: I consume or will I create? Will I perform or
Speaker 1: will I be? These are the questions that make all
Speaker 1: the difference. And now we come to the final revelation
Speaker 1: promised at the beginning of this journey. The most important
Speaker 1: truth of all wisdom is not something you find. It's
Speaker 1: something you become. It's not hidden in books or ancient
Speaker 1: ruins or secret societies. It's hidden in your daily choices,
Speaker 1: in your willing to question, in your courage to see,
Speaker 1: in your humility to change. The modern world may glorify stupidity,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean you have to. You can choose differently.
Speaker 1: You can choose to awaken, and in doing so, you
Speaker 1: become a light in the darkness, not loud, not flashy,
Speaker 1: but unshakable. Because wisdom may not trend, it may not
Speaker 1: go viral, it may not entertain the masses, but it
Speaker 1: endures and in a world that forgets, to remember is
Speaker 1: a sacred act. So remember, think deeply, live wisely, and
Speaker 1: never underestimate the quiet revolution that begins within you. Thanks
Speaker 1: for looking.