(08-04-2023, 04:49 PM)Schmoe Wrote: Agreed on the "highly educated" sometimes being the dumbest people you'll meet. I'm not knocking ANYBODY who wants to further their education, but some of them go to these big universities, get their sheepish minds stuffed chock full of ideas, then go around repeating and basically enforcing it because they now think they're entitled to do so, due to their "superior" education. And of course it's not all of them, but many.
There are many varieties of "smart." If the shit hits the fan and society collapses, who am I ganging up with? Some survivalists who couldn't name 3 ivy League schools? Or the economist who has 2 doctorates? If society collapses, suddenly the survivalists are the Harvard-educated geniuses.
It seems some of them go these big universities, and have an attitude of "I paid $400k to have my IQ boosted by 20 points, listen to all I say! Bow to your all-knowing lord!"
You bring up an interesting point - it's the application of what one has to work with more so than the amount of it, that often matters. I have another friend, a guy I went to high school with, whose IQ measured somewhat lower than my own, BUT he is much, much quicker on the draw to apply what he has to work with than I am. He's not "smarter" in a conventional sense, but he IS faster to use it, and therefore can often out-think me due to that faster processing speed he possesses.
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