Average intelligence is actually low intelligence - if it wasn't, we wouldn't have idiots needlessly starting wars, soldiers would recognise vanity or pride ord

Average intelligence is actually low intelligence - if it wasn't, we wouldn't have idiots needlessly starting wars, soldiers would recognise vanity or pride orders in the guise of nationalism instead of real threat and not risk their health (CF Russia, or passing out at Queen's funeral) advertising and the herd effect would be less effective, as would politicians' lies. Politicians seem to be generally worse for this probably because of high visibility making it appear so, e.g top down economics doesn't work (https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/ https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/), and recently in the UK they believe supply side inflation problems can be fixed by making people spend more on their mortgages/rent (vis-a-vis interest rates). All that's done is make the lower earners struggle to buy food and heat their homes, whilst civil servants (and similar) strike as inflation based pay rises for them are non existent or are deliberately not using the measure calculated using house prices (CF. accusations against gov. of mix and match inflationary measures)