"Deleuze and his congenial partner Félix Guattari speak of the old and the new idiot. The old idiot wanted evidence. He wanted to get to that evidence through himself and he would doubt all truths, even the simplest ones. The new idiot hates evidence. They are of no interest to him and there is no question of resigning himself to this evidence. The new idiot wants the absurd and that is how a completely different picture of thinking emerges.
The tension between old and new brings the mindsets to collapse and the sustained tremor shakes the established knowledge. If the old idiot wanted to find out for himself what was understandable or not, what was reasonable or not, what is worth saving or not, what may or may not get lost, then he finally has a challenger. The new idiot wants the lost, the incomprehensible, the absurd to be returned. If man succeeds in overcoming the stage of the old idiot and survives the transformation to the new idiot, then something really changes, because one thing is certain: there is another person in front of us.
The new idiot exceeds, but his function in society is not recognized. We need more new idiots."