Why does everyone seem so stupid these days? It’s a question we’ve all asked, especially when faced with mind-boggling decisions or wild opinions that defy logic. The truth is, a lot of it comes down to something called the Dunning-Kruger effect—people think they know way more than they do, and the less they know, the more confident they are about it. Add social media echo chambers into the mix, where misinformation spreads like wildfire, and laziness, where fact-checking takes a backseat, and suddenly, we’ve got a society that’s comfortable with ignorance. It’s not that everyone’s stupid—it’s that too many people have just stopped trying not to be.