I think one part of the problem is being "too clever by half": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369 Ther

I think one part of the problem is being "too clever by half": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369 There are troublemakers in school that are suffering from learning issues. But there are also "rebels" that are intelligent - yet it's usually not a good outcome for them. Stanislaw Lem handles these kind of themes in his books. A person, living his life, suddenly gets a revelation and sees the reality for what it is - all that he believed was really a sham. Sure, maybe some people wish they never had this disillusionment. But if it's happened, what do you do then? How do you work, outside or within, the "sham" system?