A philosopher’s guide to thinking for yourself in an age built to think for you

Philosopher Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s 3 conditions for the kind of stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity.

He shows how each one shows up today, from AI answering our moral questions to political parties enforcing loyalty over conviction.

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