The essence of stupidity has not changed since the time of Musil, but its spread has dramatically increased.

What is concerning is not that we still believe in nonsense. What is concerning is that we can also impose it. To elevate fools to power.

Social media has given a second chance to the infamous fool of the Interwar period – a chance that insightful writers like Robert Musil could never have dreamed of. The media took on the task of spreading the fool's message to the ends of the earth, sometimes even "washing" it of its original naïveté or inherent maliciousness, serving it as "credible news."

Could Musil have sensed in 1942, there in self-imposed exile in Switzerland, sick and destitute, the limitless prospects that the gift of the fool would one day open up for you? From the preface of Petros Tatsopoulos.