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What does being "quirky" have to do with being stupid? Is there some published conformist standard of normal that makes people smart for adhering to it?
"quirky"="stupid"? That sounds like a strange definition. Some of the quirkiest people I've known have been highly educated.
I think they mean "quirky" in the sense of standing out. Some people will walk over corpses if it makes them stand out.
Being overtly stupid is apparently a great way of standing out very quickly, if you're not picky about the kind of attention you get.
That's fair, but that's not what they said.
That's what I thought.
A quirky trend that was observed by assimov 43 years ago?
That's a hell of a trend