
Suspension Of Disbelief And ‘The Largest Vol Seller In The Market’
At a certain point, you can't fix stupid. But even more intractable, almost by definition, is suspension of disbelief.
"Stupid" isn't always deliberate. Indeed, inherent in the idea of stupidity is that someone isn't truly capable of understanding something. Suspension of disbelief, on the other hand, implies an active effort on the part of the person or persons in question to avoid common sense in favor of a more convenient explanation of reality. Often, that explanation is akin to confirmatio