Why Stupidity is Prerequisite for Study

I.E. steu - "to be hit by a stick: "stun,"
"stupor," "stupid," "study, "student"
(all in the stunnining & stupid family: )

  " Accidents break the surface of our  
lives to reveal hidden purpose or
design.

The carefully interwoven structures
of  thought and social practice provide
stability and   structure but they bring
a kind of blindness and stupidity too.

Gifts  of Hermes tear little holes in those
fabrics to offer us brief intelligence
of other realms. "
 
    ' 'Why stupidity?" a student asks. 
      Blindness I can understand.  But
      stupidity? How could that be, our
      sustainable structures of thought
      and social  practice...stupidity?

"Perhaps it would be better, then, to
say that those who work the edge
between what can and can’t be said
to not try to  escape from shame but
turn toward it and engage with it: they
wrestle with it; they try to  change its
face; they kill it in one  form so as to
resurrect it in another —undertaking to
untie the tongue"

        Working the edge
        between what can
         and can't be said?
       Escape from shame?
 Or turn towards it and engage?
       Wrestling so as to
           resurrect?
       Untie the tongue?

What? What the?  What the hell?
What the hell kind of a deal is that?
What the hell kind of a deal is that
kind of a deal?

(Quotes from Lewis Hyde,
The Trickster Makes This
Lewis Hyde: The Trickster Makes
This World