I’m telling you, I’ve seen otherwise brilliant people say the dumbest shit. The world is hard to understand in the first place and it’s often too scary to face the facts.
Being scared of facing the truth is something I do not respect or identify as intelligence.
But yes, sure, a person can be both smart and dumb. I actually agree with that. But now we’re talking about selectively intelligent people, and if someone is smart, but explicitly has been dumb about something as important as politics, I still struggle to respect them or think of them as smart overall. I think of them as dumb but with expertise.
Nah, even people with the right ideas on politics can have these blind spots. Nobody is immune and when everyone is vulnerable to something, those blind spots add up. It’s what allows divide and conquer strategies to expand beyond those who are more conservative.
I’m telling you, I’ve seen otherwise brilliant people say the dumbest shit. The world is hard to understand in the first place and it’s often too scary to face the facts.
Being scared of facing the truth is something I do not respect or identify as intelligence.
But yes, sure, a person can be both smart and dumb. I actually agree with that. But now we’re talking about selectively intelligent people, and if someone is smart, but explicitly has been dumb about something as important as politics, I still struggle to respect them or think of them as smart overall. I think of them as dumb but with expertise.
EDIT: Or of course: they’re evil.
Nah, even people with the right ideas on politics can have these blind spots. Nobody is immune and when everyone is vulnerable to something, those blind spots add up. It’s what allows divide and conquer strategies to expand beyond those who are more conservative.