I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The remark is a bleak, satirical observation about mass opinion: Ibsen’s speaker treats “stupidity” not as a rare defect but as the dominant social force. The line implies that public life is often governed by conformity, complacency, and unexamined beliefs, so that intelligence or moral courage becomes structurally disadvantaged. Read in the context of Ibsen’s recurring conflicts between the individual and the crowd, it underscores how “majorities” can be oppressive not through malice but through sheer weight of numbers and the comfort of conventional thinking. The tone—cool, almost conversational—sharpens the insult by presenting it as self-evident fact.