Intelligence

[Anonymous No.8987940]

I don't understand intelligence, IQ, g-factor, any of that.
What do you say to people who claim that what we consider intelligence is just a particular way of surviving in in our mathy, bureucratic, analytical, western culture, and that there's no objective intelligence? What if the people who devised the concept of intelligence just took something that's considered 'succeeding' in our culture, did some research on people who had this quality, and then found out these kind of people tend to succeed? Well, dah. What if that's all there to is, just a lot of different ways to specialize, and being intelligent is just one of them?
What if being unintelligent or 'irrational' is just people valuing unorthodox and non-mainstream things? Not all people value financial success. What I've heard about it, being famous or rich often sucks a lot, you have little privacy, people constantly try to find fault with you, people demand a lot from you, you get a lot of critique, you have to please a ton of people.