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There are two opposed types of stupidity.

• The first is the (occasionally) hyperintelligent subject who just doesn't "get it", who understands a situation logically, but simply misses its hidden contextual rules.
• The second and opposite figure of stupidity is that of the moron: the stupidity of those who fully identify with common sense, who fully stand for the "big Other" of appearances.
• [[less_than_nothing.pdf#page=12|See example here]]

[!def] An "imbecile" is someone walking around without the help of a stick. Imbecile has IQ of 26-50.

NOTE

We have to lean on sth, such as the language, the symbolic order, i.e. what Lacan calls the "big Other".

The tripartite idiot-imbecile-moron

• The idiot (IQ of 0-25) is simply alone, outside the big Other.
• The moron (IQ of 51-70) is within it (dwelling in language in a stupid way).
• The imbecile（IQ of 26-50）is in between the two-aware of the need for the big Other, but not relying on it, distrusting it.

NOTE

There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exception to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity.

[[mysterious-tendency-for-antonyms]]

NOTE

The double negation does not bring us back to some primordial positivity.

IMPORTANT

伽利略说“Eppur si muove”（“地球仍在转动”），这一观点忤逆了教会的"地心说"，导致他被审判。 Although someone who possesses true knowledge is forced to renounce it, this does not stop it from being true. In this sense, a materialist can say that, although he knows there is no God, the idea of a God nonetheless "moves" him. (就算他不信神，神的“观点”也可以打动他.)

"Eppur si muove" replaces the usual "The truth is out there", meaning that, even if their existence is denied by official science, alien monsters nonetheless move around out there.

What cannot be said must be shown

[!quote] Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silence.

--Wittgenstein

It shouldn't be done, because it can't be done.