Intellectual pride can lead to stupidity. When someone idolizes their own thinking structures and glorifies them by making them equal to that of a “thinking god”, those thinking structures harden into statue marble. Those idolized thinking structures are persuaded that their thoughts - thoughts of a “thinking god” - can never be wrong, because a “thinking god” never has thinking errors. And when one cannot admit that one has thinking errors, one can never change. And not being able to change one's errors in thinking is the very definition of stupidity.
Here, intellectual pride trades a thinking posture that is open to correction with its “mental pimples” and “cognitive freckles” for a beautifully dead static thinking posture that is no longer alive.
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