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In my experience smart people are also far more likely to create elaborate self-reinforcing systems of belief that are detached from reality. Any moron can und
by api 4y ago
In my experience smart people are also far more likely to create elaborate self-reinforcing systems of belief that are detached from reality.
Any moron can understand the idea of a round Earth and stuff orbiting around it. It takes a genius to comprehend the sublime intricacies of ether vortex theory which explains how a flat Earth can still permit satellites to stay airborne over the plane.
I've met an extremely intelligent person who was convinced we never landed on the Moon and that Stanley Kubrick faked the whole thing and left clues to this in his production of The Shining. I've also met one who thinks the Nazis invented anti-gravity and are hiding the technology to this day in underground bases in Antarctica and South America.
- mancerayder 4y agoThat sounds a lot more like creativity than capacity to reason logically, or a number of other facets of intelligence. That's probably part of the issue, which properties of 'intelligence' we are talking about. There are also a lot of crazy and intelligent people. I certainly know so many, it almost becomes a correlation.
- lsllc 4y agoActually, the Nazi's hid on the moon wit their anti-gravity tech: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 (which is an entertaining movie if you haven't seen it).
- rnd0 4y agoWere they convinced, or are you convinced that they were convinced? The Kubrick thing is an old joke (which usually ends by saying he insisted on filming "on location" for the sake of authenticity)
- api 4y agoThey were convinced.