Is it a strategy? To present yourself as stupid in order to warn other people that you are not receptive to challenges, and that, by being stupid, meaning weak, you are going to entitle yourself to be demanding.
In presenting yourself as stupid, you are stating that nothing can be expected from you. In presenting yourself as stupid, you are saying that you are inferior. In presenting yourself as inferior, you are taking the easiest approach to state that you are not an equal. By presenting yourself not as an equal, you signal that you are not able to commit to any contract, to any agreement, pointing out that nothing should be expected from you.
You are confusing freedom with disengagement.
Do we purposely disinform ourselves to either be entitled to say anything or excuse ourselves from saying anything meaningful?
We believe that we are alive, as long as we are busy. Being busy is a distraction from questions, which only those who are alive can ask.
We pronounce words to say nothing at all, although - if we listen carefully - we can hear the cry of our choice to remain weak in our cacophony, and the tempting invitation from others to join them in their cowardliness. This is what we really say when we say nothing meaningful.
We make these noises (that we, deceitfully, call “words”), we attempt to keep others away from our bodies, also keeping ourselves away from it. These distancing from our bodies, from our material reality, is the root of our disadvantages, of our continued decline into weakness.
What is a strong body? What is, at last, a strong self?
A body that dances.