>>13171277>>13171345the point is that people are morons
but 100 morons can collectively make one step that an intelligent person can make
and a million morons can sometimes make a step that a genius would make
you can easily observe this in the sciences
people who, 200 years ago, would be the village idiot or the guy you give a bottle of wine to so that he butchers your pig or plows your field for you --- those people now become professors, doctors, whatever
they're total morons, they have no idea how science works or why it works, but they keep publishing inconsequential papers, they make baby steps
and a million baby steps can have the impact of a breakthrough that a genius would have had
the same phenomenon happens everywhere in society
a moron barely knows how to survive and work at mcdonald's or something like that, but if you have 1000 morons each judging ideas based on bits and pieces, they can collectively take fairly interesting and good decisions
imagine a million morons voting for a president:
>one moron votes the president for his positive policy towards miners>another moron likes the industry for promoting the steel industry>another moron likes that the president is a conservative>another moron is tired of liberals>etc...the same happens with the growth, assimilation and perpetuation of ideas
if 1000 morons like an idea, it might be pretty good or at least it's better than total nonsense
this is why proverbs have survived, this is how language evolves, and so on
