{"id":4093,"date":"2024-10-20T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/seminar-on-stupidity\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:25:39","slug":"seminar-on-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/seminar-on-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">This tragicomic monologue is centered upon the final lecture delivered by a professor to a group of graduating university students that takes place at a technocratic college, where future big-shot company executives usually complete their studies. The lecturer\u2019s \u201clife-lesson\u201d is in fact a delirium reflecting upon the diachronic value of stupidity as a remedy for the square and often merciless reasoning of our times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lecturer, using examples from history, philosophy, theatre, economic theories and the economic crisis, which plagues a large proportion of the southern countries of Europe today, argues that the dominion of absolute rationalism is in fact foolish and destructive to people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>During the play, he cites proverbial examples of stupidity, with the references varying from Musil, to Napoleon and George Bush, and from Shakespeare, to Paul Valery and\u2026Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the lecture, he says: \u201cAn old, Arabian proverb suggests that <em>stupidity is a divine gift, yet one that should not be abused<\/em>. Do you think it is possible that a culture that created Algebra, the astrolabe, the pendulum and falafels could be so wrong about stupidity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seminar on Stupidity<\/p>\n<p>1 male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-4093","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}