Sure, the top few percent of the intelligence scale get systems just fine. The average college educated person finds complex systems thinking, well, complex.

Sure, the top few percent of the intelligence scale get systems just fine. The average college educated person finds complex systems thinking, well, complex. Huge swathes of the electorate find it so confusing that they are easily fooled by BS arguments, disinformation and lies, and vote emphatically directly against their own self interest. Id say that once it gets down to a level of intelligence where the person can tolerate the existence of the distraction diet (well-said!), they are below the level of systems thinking. As Einstein said: "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why so few people do it.".