Editing The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (section)

==About this Paper==
There is genius at work in this thesis. It came round about by way of reader Sam Keen, who sent to the UK a thin gray monograph printed anonimously in August 1986 in Bologna, Italy. The trail eventually led to Carlo M. Cipolla, the author, who was Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley but, alas died in 2000 and left behind a bunch of (half-american) offsprings... who promptly tried to scrap money out of everything he had written, even if -as in the case of this small text- clearly earmarked and STATED by the Author in its 1986 version as intended for the public domain (and yes, stated again in 1992, despite having re-published this text in 1988, slightly modified, in his “Allegro ma non troppo” copyrighted collection).

This copy comes from Whole Earth Review (Spring 1987 pp 2 - 7) and is anyway easy to find all over the web and/or on any webarchive facility a ́ la “wayback machine”.

There isn’t of course, nor cannot be, any valid patent or bogus “copyright” on this work that Pro- fessor Cipolla personally WANTED to have in the public domain and incidentally BECAUSE OF ITS VERY OPEN SPREADING is the only one that has made -and still makes- him famous all over the web.

We firmly believe that this belongs into any reality cracker’s quiver, and that the best onor to the Author and the best chance that anyone will “buy” his other texts (frankly also equally easy to find in many “grey” areas of Internet, but way less interesting) is to allow this nice little essay to be spread around as originally clearly intended by Professor Cipolla himself.