If you are surrounded by stupid people, you will only benefit from being on the wrong side of (e.g. an attack) against the majority opinion of those around you. But if you overgeneralize the success story by that contrarian position and do the same thing when others are smart, you will not gain. The inability to understand the difference between these two situations is another level of stupidity.
relevance - state of madness
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