Meeksauce

I don't disagree

Ok

You're kinda making the assumption that I'm coming at this from a place of unintelligence. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, you did. "So it was attempt to expose how your post might imply you see yourself as higher intelligence. Not that it couldn't be true, but it sounded like you excluded yourself from the category of people who would see themselves that way" I do see myself as higher intelligence. Is that so impossible?

You're the one who called me dumb, jackass. Remember?

Ok? We live in a world of relativity. Everything you know is relativity

I know, it's just he was trying to say I'm not as smart as I think I am. And how else am I gonna prove that by just saying "trust me bro". Intelligence covers many domains, not just mathematical pattern recognition that you would find on an IQ test... The things I write have real intelligence, but people feel the need to tell me things that were already implied in the original post. That shows me they don't have the intelligence to understand what I wrote - their ego mechanism simply rejects it.

The people splitting atoms and launching rocket ships are at the very high end of the intelligence distribution. They don't speak for the species as a whole. I actually have very smart people around me, it's most of the world that's dumb.

Yes I already know this, that was sort of implied in my post. I don't consider intelligence as a single metric either.

I was using intelligence in a holistic sense

Pretty weak bait tbh. I have a 145 IQ

I don't buy it

After a certain point you kinda just assume everyone is trying to tear your ideas down, but that's not always the case. Open-mindedness can be challenging. And yeah the literacy rate is absolutely plummeting, I think covid played a large part in making gen Alpha illiterate and education-resistant. Even if people have the basic foundations of intelligence, and are literate, ideology is the next barrier that most people will never surpass. Ideology and cultural bias is most of the reason why we even have wars and conflict.

I get what you mean, I can take a harsher tone without actually meaning ill will sort of like Leo. My apologies if that was too much

That was already my point. I don't think the premise of "question your own mind" itself needs to be questioned. That's just needlessly circular. And I wouldn't have written this post if I wasn't already doing that for myself.