[FRIAM] on stupidity

[Marcus Daniels]

Steven writes:

<   I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems
    egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different
    basis space...  or more aptly "a different value system".   >

Indeed, like a provincial value system.   One that optimizes for local interests in ignorance or indifference to interests of anyone else.   Even if the magnitude of their eigenvalue is tiny by comparison. 

Marcus