a tyrant institutionalises stupidity
"One is neither superior nor external to that from which one benefits:
a tyrant institutionalises stupidity,
but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed in it.
Slaves are always commanded by another slave.
Here too, how could the concept of error account
for this unity of stupidity and cruelty,
of the grotesque and the terrifying,
which doubles the way of the world?
Cowardice, cruelty, baseness and stupidity
are not simply corporeal capacities or traits of character or society;
they are structures of thought as such."
in 'Difference & Repetition' p.151
--- Gilles Deleuze, January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995