my stuttering and problem with "stop" sounds makes it easy to hide any intelligence. it's not really intentional but although i could still step around those verbal issues when speaking to people i do still try not to get stuck on 1 topic or go indepth into anything because i've become an excellent liar. so much so that i just seem like a "typical" lazy guy who likes to play on the internet too much and some mild anxiety
I wish we didn't have to spend our lives lying. People really do seem to not like intelligence. There are so many jokes about people being smart. Why is "rocket scientist" pejorative? I have heard, "Oh thanks Professor." in a very mocking tone. Why is being a professor a bad thing? What's wrong with being smart and aren't many people smart? I hear "dude" so often when young men meet each other. Women say "b***h" or "girl" or "ho" ( I am not making this up, I really hear it). Why?
Shakespeare wrote with such elegance, such artistry and with such a love of language that most of his characters flow from speech in to poetry. When did dumbing everything down become the popular thing? It's like the people settled on it by tacit agreement that it would be so. Why?
What's wrong with knowing how an internal combustion engine works, or the Electoral College, or biology or Chaos Theory? Using Regression Theory I can help myself deconstruct and so have a better understanding of how an event came to be. No longer 'ghosts in the machine', there is a logical pattern showing why I should expect certain results.
When did having technology but having no curiosity about how it works become alright? With this simple thinking comes vulnerability to superstition and the inability to plan in to the future.
Vaccines cause autism (not starting this debate). In my opinion this belief is able to find ground and hold it because critical thinking skills are not taught. Go where the facts take you and not where your belief wish it would. Be willing to be corrected, to be wrong.
Intelligence is not a flaw or weakness or an act to be superior. You can be kind and intelligent and, any other kind of person too.
I know I won't win this fight, in fact I no longer fight it, but I wish we didn't have to be bullied for knowing the answer. How many of us can remember that in class, the first time the teacher asked and we raised our hand and gave the answer and how quickly we learned from the other students that they did not want anyone to do that. We knew the answer and so answered. Then we learned we would have no friends if we did or even get beaten up.
I like learning. It's the second most important thing to me. I want to be wrong. I want to be surprised. I want someone to show me I have had the wrong conclusion for such a long time. That 'common sense' thinking is both the most fallible and is perfectly natural to our biology and was necessary to our survival.
We don't have to be mad because we meet people who are different. Some people are more prone to magical thinking and they are not one bit less intelligent. They are supposed to be that way. I must think literally. It is a handicap for me and gets me in trouble constantly but I believe it is an atavistic skill that kept some of my ancestors alive. Herd mentality is a popular thing to make fun of now. Be different people say. That is not real independence. Being yourself is. Herd mentality meant that when one of the tribe used magical thinking in the form of pareidolia and believed the shadow in the bush was a lion, all the others ran too. Saved a lot of lives.
I ramble now but it is because I have such heat on this subject. We, us .. we have had to lie all our lives, pretending to not know what we know, how we are able to understand things that some others don't. We are not bad people but lying is bad and we feel the pain of having to lie. We feel it all our lives. I am sorry it is this way, their can be such joy in intelligence and none of it as far as I can see is in making other people feel bad.