Evidently Matthijs van Boxsel doesn’t consider himself stupid and he surely isn’t. Let’s just spit it out: he’s a smart, intelligent man. This is only his livelihood. Because this can be one’s livelihood. He collected the biggest stupidities, for instance Sysiphus is stupidly rolling that rock and everyone from A to Z is stupid. The dumbest of all is Albert Einstein but Jesus makes even a dumber dumb. ‘No one is intelligent enough to understand their own stupidity’ says the 59th page of the Encyclopedia of Stupidity. He distorts the axiom ‘You can laugh at everything’ into the lie of ‘You can mock everything’. This very thought is where the excellent writer is wrong, I believe. But it keeps coming back to me that this is the twist he uses to make us aware that we shouldn’t cry if we can laugh, too. Because it’s better to laugh. Someone else stated this. Which I’d refute immediately and with all my heart but I think of the fact that this writer’s not stupid and knows this, too so what he also says is that it’s good to cry, too. Matthijs van Boxsel is a very cunning man, indeed and found a precious treasure, becoming a master, a Socrates of self-irony. He’s invited to all kind of universities to preach his lore. He believes that human civilization is built upon huge mistakes, which are translated in Hungarian as ‘tokens of silliness’, and are expressed in the original Dutch version as domheid, nuggets of dumbness. I make mistakes, therefore I am. I know nothing and therefore I can’t know if I’m stupid. Everything’s stupid. If a woman wears orange shoes, it (or even she) is stupid. If a man likes cool cars, it (and again maybe he) is stupid. But it is equally stupid that Buddha doesn’t do sports and that people drink alcohol. These are only conclusions the writer bases on cultural assets, history and everything. Thoroughly. I think if he takes these seriously, he’s a fool but if he just fools around, he’s ubercool. Or Socrates. Because we live in a world where you get strangled for two euros. Where you get knocked out if you just slightly bump into a car. It is genial to see mistakes as humor in a world like this. To view trouble as stupidity, to perceive dearth as surplus and to take lightly everything that really matters is an epoch-making idea. That sometimes we really have to sacrifice our own dignity to help others find joy is beautiful. Matthijs van Boxsel found it a pleasure to dedicate his book to me and asked my name. I answered ‘it’s Zoltán’. Accordingly, his dedication said ‘Dear Zoltan, enjoy your stupidity’. I had to laugh when I read it and thanked him. Presently I’m reading his book and it's really good.