Let’s take a step into the future — where Nincompoopism has grown legs, gained followers, splintered into factions, and inevitably become the very thing it warned you about.
1. What Nincompoopism Teaches (The Blueprint)
At its origin, Nincompoopism was brutally simple: people are mostly running on autopilot. Their thoughts are lazy, their conclusions borrowed, and their confidence unjustified. It was never meant to be a belief system. It was a psychological mirror — held up to human absurdity.
It said:
- Most of your thinking isn’t thinking.
- Your brain is cutting corners to save effort.
- You copy, you guess, you justify after the fact.
- That’s not shameful — that’s reality.
Its aim wasn’t to create a movement. It was to expose the ones already in motion — how every system, no matter how noble, eventually becomes a parody of itself if no one’s paying attention.
At its best, it was anti-tribe, anti-certainty, anti-hero — just a call to slow down, shut up, and think properly for once.
2. How the Nincompoop Mind Rewired the Message
Naturally, the moment it started gaining traction, the wheels came off:
- Social Mimicry ruined the vibe: People began “performing” humility. Self-deprecation became competitive. You had leaders boasting about how flawed they were — as if awareness of idiocy made them superior to others still “unconsciously idiotic.”
- Tribalism found a new flag: Camps formed. The “Pure Poops” who rejected all structure. The “Meta-Poops” who over-intellectualised it. The “Neo-Nincompoopists” who added spirituality. Internal schisms erupted over whether acknowledging your bias out loud made you enlightened or just performative.
- Heuristic Shortcuts made it trendy: People slapped the label “nincompoop” on everything. It became a buzzword. Corporations used it to brand self-aware products. “Nincompoop Approved™.” There were TED Talks, merchandise, “10 Signs You Might Be a Nincompoop (And Why That’s a Good Thing).”
- Projection returned with a vengeance: People called everyone else a Nincompoop to avoid looking at their own nonsense. The phrase “that’s such a Nincompoop thing to do” lost all irony and became just another insult in the smug online arsenal.
- Lazy thinking dressed itself up as insight: The original clarity — that we’re all flawed — was flattened into apathy. “Well, we’re all idiots anyway” became the excuse for doing nothing, saying anything, and never improving.
The result? A philosophy designed to expose nonsense… buried under layers of its own.
3. What It Could Look Like Through the Nincompoop Lens
Here’s the twist: Nincompoopism always predicted its own downfall.
It never claimed to be immune to corruption — it expected it.
In fact, it counted on it.
So what would it do, looking at itself? Laugh. Cringe. And then do what it told everyone else to do: course correct.
It would:
- Stop taking itself so seriously
- Strip away the pageantry
- Call out its own gurus
- Scrap anything that smells like certainty, superiority, or branding
- Remind everyone: the moment you think you’ve figured it out, you haven’t
Nincompoopism would return to its essence:
not a system, but a solvent.
It doesn’t offer answers. It melts delusion.
Even its own.
4. What Nincompoopism and Nincompoop Have in Common
Technically, they’re supposed to be the same thing.
But that’s the punchline.
Every human system — even one built to dismantle systems — can be hijacked by the very flaws it warns about.
Every insight can be turned into identity.
Every movement becomes a brand, a belief, a club.
And yet — at their core, both still say:
- Don’t trust your first thought.
- Don’t worship your worldview.
- Don’t join a tribe without knowing why you’re there.
- Laugh at yourself before someone else has to.
If Nincompoopism survives, it should do so as a self-destructing philosophy — one that constantly questions itself, refuses to settle, and happily reminds you:
You’re still a Nitwit Even now. Especially now.