{
  "id": 8149901,
  "title": "Lead: \"People must feel allowed to be stupid\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/fuhrung-die-leute-mussen-das-gefuhl-haben-blod-sein-zu-durfen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-18T02:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/karriere/fuehrung-die-leute-muessen-das-gefuehl-haben-bloed-sein-zu-duerfen/100252820.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Philosopher Herr Scheidegger discusses the seeming paradox that despite having more knowledge than ever before, society makes increasingly poor decisions. He attributes this to a growing ego-centrism in thinking, where individuals prioritize their own perspectives and values over facts and established knowledge. Scheidegger introduces the concept of \"Überdummheit\" (super-stupidity), where people strategically reject established knowledge to make room for their own views, often as a pose or provocation. He argues that this is not simply a matter of stupidity, but rather a misguided attempt to assert one's own intelligence and perspective.",
  "summary": "Philosopher Manuel Scheidegger says: Stupidity is underestimated. A conversation about hopes in AI, misunderstood failure culture – and the meaning of “opinion fasting.”",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}