Can we all stop being so abominably stupid? The world has always been divided between the educated and the uneducated, the intelligent and the none too bright. If I put that in a Venn diagram, there’d be significant overlap, because the levels vary from person to person and even within a single mind at various times. Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of smart people saying and doing stupid things.

Here are a few examples:

• A writer with a PhD posts a short form story begging people to read another story of theirs that is both funny and informative. It’s not funny, but it is informative. It is also exceedingly dull. Instead of…