I've gone back and forth on my feelings for the mindset. My current feelings just encompass the differences so it's not really a like or hate anymore either way

I've gone back and forth on my feelings for the mindset. My current feelings just encompass the differences so it's not really a like or hate anymore either way. Yes, the human species is very intelligent and in a uniquely general way on this planet, the difference between a village idiot and Einstein is quite small compared to the difference between a village idiot and any member of any other species. Scenarios like Idiocracy are just laughably implausible because while evolution can sometimes work fast for little changes which can make a difference against big selection pressures, it's generally very slow (we have math to say how slow!), and it seems plausible that what makes us uniquely generally intelligent took evolution a long time to produce, has many interdependent and complicated things, and would take evolution a long time to unmake. I suspect we as a species would sooner go extinct for one reason or another before we suffered enough mutations that reached fixation and caused a notable decline in our capability of general intelligence. On the other hand, small scale situations similar to what's depicted in fun-fiction like Idiocracy or other things keep happening, and the idea that reality is stranger and crazier than fiction holds true. I've joked that the 2020s are going to be the dumbest decade, and will require the dumbest people. Holding up well so far. Furthermore, even if we acknowledge that humans are intelligent, period, there is still great variation within humans. There is variation on every trait we can measure, self-awareness should be no different, the presumption that no one is more or less self aware than any other person defies reason. Apart from that, just observing people's behavior in a casual way I think it obvious that people vary quite a bit when it comes to self-awareness, both in general every day lives (which I can notice varies in myself) or in specific focused tests. It doesn't get better when you switch from casual observation and conversation to more detailed study, psychology and psychotherapy are full of strange and fascinating data (and not just of fundamentally damaged brains) which I think a model that assumes equal capacities in self-awareness would be hard-pressed to explain.