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abnormally high intelligences that unintentionally ostracized us from the rest of society.
we cannot capitalize or benefit from the economies to scale that exist to serve the vast majority of the population which happens to be less intelligent than us.
intelligent people effectively pay a “smart person’s tax” to pay for the mistakes of others in society.
A “smart man’s burden.”
instead of genuine statesmen who are concerned about their stewardship of society, you get politicians and charlatans who only care about their political careers, and willingly lie to the population to get re-elected.
Witness what happens in when such “statesmen” have to deal with a legitimate crisis like a pandemic.
The vast majority of people are neither interested in, nor want to achieve greatness. The vast majority of people do not want to lead different or unique lives.
But they like to be inspired by such people on “the ‘gram.”
It is a system designed to benefit teachers, administrators, unions, parents, and (less-so) employers. The children are merely an afterthought, a vehicle by which others enrich themselves.
they cannot keep up the charade or façade of emotional interest. It just isn’t in their nature and it’s simply too taxing mentally. High IQ people can plainly see a problem for what it is, what logical decisions need to be made in order to solve it, and can remove any emotional or psychological preferences they might have about it. They offer direct, blunt, emotionless solutions that are guaranteed to solve the problem, but unfortunately step on people’s precious little toes.
This accurately describes my youth until I developed “people” skills.
because of the structural nature of companies, combined with humanity’s preference for feelings and emotions over reality, it is NOT the smartest or best people who get promoted, but rather the most average.
Specifically, a truly intelligent person easily identifies inefficiencies, flaws, and ways to drastically improve the system or organization in front of them.
Personally I find disfunction abhorrent, but there always seems to be a reason to not fix it, even a little bit.
No job is worth the abuse.
It’s going to be the highly intelligent who are most trusting and, therefore, prone to swallow whole the “sensitive 90’s man” tripe being pushed down their throats. Alas, instead of pursuing intelligence AND masculinity (which is a deadly combination that slays the ladies) they pursue intelligence, emotion, feelings, and femininity at the EXPENSE of masculinity.
This happened to me. Fortunately I recovered before too late.
they could no longer tolerate society
the absolute worst thing a highly intelligent person can do with it is waste it being common.
That would make a good bumper sticker.
Society is not as intelligent or driven as us. Our institutions of employment and education are corrupt and incompetent. And a truly meritocratic government will never exist. Alas,
And, perhaps most importantly, you’ll know for a fact you’re not insane, it’s just the world around.
Amen!
