People are really smart People are so smart that they have managed to get from birth to death finding nourishment, a mate, building shelter, forming social groups, conceiving a higher purpose and a higher power.
People are really smart.
The problems begin when systems or the processes do not allow people to be smart. When a system channels people to unclear ends, in which people do not share in the outcome, in an autocratic manner and probably at the expense of their joy, faith, health or freedom it is inevitable that the people get smart enough to bring such a system down. Now, from the top, as the autocrat or as a monarch, or as the owner or manager of the process people may look stupid, ignorant, dimwitted etc. That is where the error lies. It is only from the top that people appear to be so.