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I don't think our democratic society is very good for gifted/talented people. Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chim

• ThrustVectoring 11y ago
  It's a little worse than that, because the threat of violent sanctions is also raised for talking about status differences, as well as mentioning the violent sanctions.
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > I don't think our democratic society is very good for gifted/talented people. I think it is better for gifted/talented people than any alternative anyone has proposed would be if an attempt were made to implement it with real people in the real world. > Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chimpanzees insisting that everybody are equal, and threatening violent sanctions whenever anybody behaves otherwise. I'm a "gifted/talented" person by most standards (by IQ test scores, PSAT/SAT/LSAT all at the highest reported point in the distribution -- 99 or 99.9 percentile, depending on what the particular test reported at the time -- etc.) And, frankly, I find it quite likely that anyone who thinks that the relationship between humans and chimpanzees is even a remotely appropriate analogy for the relationship between gifted and talented people at the ~91% percentile and the rest of society is someone who is inclined to behave in a way such that forceful sanctions are appropriate and necessary.
• js8 11y ago
  You should read a bit on history, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Svoboda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Svoboda There is a reason why smart people flee from dictatorships to democracies.