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Alvaro de Campos, solemn investigator of useless things, at your service. These are the musings of Fernando Pessoa, a possible figment of my imagination. Or the other way around. With musical interludes.

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collective dumbness

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border—like a toll—most of the intelligence it contained. (104)