> This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence. Whether or not "intelle

> This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence. Whether or not "intellectuals" are generally of above average intelligence isn't the point. The point is that the experience of intellectuals, a numerical minority, is atypical relative to the population as a whole.