In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters, (2003) by Merrill R.

Chapman:
The claim that high-tech companies are constantly running into 'new' and 'unique' situations that
they cannot possibly be expected to anticipate and intelligently resolve is demonstrably false ...
The truth is that technology companies are constantly repeating the same mistakes with wearying
consistency ... and many of the stupid things these companies do are completely avoidable.
"While In Search of Excellence turned out to be a fraud, In Search of Stupidity is genuine, and no
names have been changed to protect the guilty," according to one reviewer.[26]

In film
Stupidity was a 2003 movie directed by Albert Nerenberg.[27] It depicted examples and analyses of
stupidity in modern society and media, and sought "to explore the prospect that willful ignorance
has increasingly become a strategy for success in the realms of politics and entertainment."[28]
Idiocracy, a Mike Judge film from 2006, explored a dystopian future America where a person of
average IQ is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 500 years later to find that mankind,
increasingly dependent on technology built by previous generations th
Eric Berne described the game of "Stupid" as having "the thesis...'I laugh with you at my own
clumsiness and stupidity.'"[11] He points out that the player has the advantage of lowering other
people's expectations, and so evading responsibility and work; but that he or she may still come
through under pressure, like the proverbially stupid younger son.[12]
Wilfred Bion considered that psychological projection created a barrier against learning anything
new, and thus its own form of pseudo-stupidity.[13]