Alas the naysayers say what the say as they just don't get it. It's the classic state of being clearly defined by the word stupid.
Although one can argue if a more appropriate word more clearly describes the mindset.
stu·pid (stpd, sty-)
adj. stu·pid·er, stu·pid·est.
1.Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
2.Lacking or marked by a lack of intelligence.
3.In a stupor; stupefied.
4.In a dazed or stunned state.
Imbecility. Folly
[Nouns] want of intelligence [more], want of intellect [more]; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; imbecility,
incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity;
hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence (unskillfulness) [more].
one's weak side; bias [more]; infatuation (insanity) [more].
simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling.
folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry [more]; giddiness
(inattention) [more]; eccentricity [more]; extravagance (absurdity) [more]; rashness [more].
act of folly [more].
b. be imbecile; have no brains, have no sense [more].
trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble (madness) [more]; play the fool, play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not
see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself [more]; talk nonsense [more].
[Adjectives] [Applied to persons] unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless,
brainless; halfbaked; having no head [more]; not -bright [more]; inapprehensible.
weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle
headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted,
fat-headed.
weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted,
lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blund-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted,
short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story.
shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blundt, stolid,
doltish; asinine; inapt [more]; prosaic [more]; hebetudinous.
childish; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple (credulous) [more].
fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered[more].
blockish, unteachabel Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosphical; apish;
simious.
foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.
narrow-minded [more]; bigoted (obstinate) [more]; giddy (thoughtless) [more]; rash [more]; eccentric (crazed)
[more].
[Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, silly, stupid,
asinine; ill- imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical;
extravagant (nonsensical) [more]; sleeveless, idle; useless [more]; inexpedient [more]; frivolous (trivial) [more].
[Phrases] Davus sum non [Edipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.] clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero];
"fools rush in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read"
[Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound" [Churchill].
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