A philosopher’s guide to thinking for yourself in an age built to think for you
BigThink · 17 Jul 2026

A philosopher’s guide to thinking for yourself in an age built to think for you

Philosopher Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s 3 conditions for the kind of stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity. He shows how each one shows up today, from AI answering our moral questions to political parties


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