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>>19079744

A big as fuck IQ does not solve mediocrity. The majority of very intelligent people will end up shamefully and utterly buying into the fables of their own society. A high intellect and an active intellect very often do not come in the same package, or sparingly if they do. And if somebody highly intelligent with an active intellect, they often use their intellect for personal fancy, deception, and invention. Something you might not know is the tendency for highly intelligent and spergy scientists to privately believe in unusual conspiracy theories. Something I've observed anecdotally, this is especially true for boomers since they grew up with nothing but television and radio, so even realizing the norms of their own society are semi-arbitrary (merely customary) is some great feat requiring a lot of intelligence and careful skepticism. While if you grew up with the internet, realizing that "blacks have low IQ and it's probably partially genetic if you've read some of the literature" for example is completely trivial if you're an intelligent young man.

Anyways, my point is that "IQ elitism" really doesn't live up to its aristocratic ambitions. There are many other important and exclusive qualities, a dominant social elite of the biggest nerds is genuinely very lacking. Although at least moderately high intelligence is probably a necessary criterion for most forms of excellence. And the bare likelihood of success and its likely magnitude keeps increasing with higher intelligence (there is no cutoff or glass ceiling with intelligence-success correlations in most intellectually demanding tasks, fields, jobs).

Despite that all being true, intelligence is probably valued far too much in contemporary society. Even if you're being really strict and demanding about it, "realistic" or "meritocratic" or something. It still stands that most intelligent people are incredibly petty and unremarkable and end up amounting to very little. And pride in ones intellect is mostly informed by positive experiences in school during adolescence. The dopamine hit of being a good quizboy and your rabble classmates voting you most likely to succeed or something petty and gay like that. Why do most adult men never grow out of childhood? What the fuck is wrong with them??? Anyways, IQ threads should be banned and IQ posters should be given a wedgie by some tall and fat mental retard. Or gangraped by niggers or whatever