"Television makes you stupid," "Our education system produces careerist specialists," "Capitalism needs consumer fools" - When a society responds to the widespread discomfort with "general idiocy" not with concrete countermeasures but rather with cultural pessimistic slogans and conspiracy theories, it becomes clear how entrenched it has become in its own stupidity, even elevating it to a system. Markus Metz and Georg Seesslen analyze the mechanisms through which stupidity is produced today, along with the fatal strategies that most individuals use to "cope" with it, thereby exacerbating the issue. Those who do not want to blindly succumb to the dynamics of the "idiot machines" or, even worse, recognize them yet still submit, must understand their structures. Only then does the chance arise to dismantle them.