Thursday the conference entitled ON STUPIDITY 2.0 , at 5:00 pm, at the State Center for the Arts of Ensenada (Aula Magna), an event that is part of the celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of El Vigía , in coordination with the Cultural Magazine Palabra .
In his two essays on the subject —published in the weekly Palabra , No. 448 (January 3, 2020) and in the Cultural Magazine Palabra , No. 11 (October 2022)—, Carlos Mongar arrives at a non-definitive characterization on the subject —theorizing alongside Erasmus of Rotterdam, Jonathan Swift, Gustave Flaubert or Robert Musil—, but which offers solid considerations that “do not prevent us from concluding that stupidity dominates and has dominated the world.”
“So far, among scholars of stupidity,” Mongar tells us, “there is no agreement on how to characterize it scientifically, but yes, everyone agrees that when stupidity is associated with other familiar scourges of the human condition, the consequences are catastrophic.”
Carlos Mongar is a poet, essayist and editor. With his essay "Rimbaud, poet of everyone and no one" he won the Alfonso Reyes Essay Prize, convened by the UABC in 1988. He has published the following books of poetry: The symbols of vertigo (1980), Fragments of hate (1984), Poeterodactyls in the country of the droghomos (1984), The salamanders (1990), Fragments (published by Baja Estirpe in 1991), Bottomless Fragments (corrected and expanded version, Ediciones del Ermitaño , Minimalia , 1997). From 1995 to 2002 he was deputy director of publications and alternative media for the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) and editor of the magazines: Scientific and Technological Information (Icyt) and Science and Development . He currently collaborates with La Jornada BC and the Palabra Cultural Magazine .
