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We live in a golden age of stupidity, and it is a source of endless amusement for those capable of surmounting or ignoring the horror it initially inspires. By stupidity, I mean here not ignorance or mental ineptitude but the flamboyant productions of inadequate minds determined to apprehend matters far exceeding their capacity. We might call it “creative stupidity” to distinguish it from stupidity as a simple shortcoming. I think of my relative who learned the term “fiat money” and could not go a day without repeating it, convinced that the abandonment of the gold standard was an unpardonable fiduciary sin he was tasked with revealing to the world after discovering it on YouTube; of the helpful coronavirus hints that pullulate on WhatsApp, generally sent by people prone to deriding doctors and virologists as clueless; or of Frazzledrip, which I might never have heard of but for the rise of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the district I grew u