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>Understanding where we sit statistically in the context of societal intelligence we can move onto more specific problems abnormally intelligent people will face. Specifically, the mental costs associated with living in an Idiocracy.
>It was my senior year in high school and it was mandated we attend a rally where the guest speaker was our local congressional representative. Based on people’s faces it was obvious I was not the only one who didn’t want to attend. So when our congressman started asking the audience questions…only to receive no or begrudged answers…I decided we’d all get out of there a lot sooner if I were to answer one of his questions to accelerate his speech.
>He asked the audience, How many members of congress are there? Noticing nobody was going to answer I said, “535.”
>Thinking I cumulatively saved the entire student body two hours of their lives, a sophomore behind me tapped me on my shoulder and said, Hey, Einstein, how many beers are in a case?
>Not knowing, nor really caring I said, I don’t know, 12?
>In a very Beavis and Butthead manner he snorted, Heh heh, it’s 16! Shows you how much you know!
>I could only think to myself, Yeah kid, it actually does.

>The truth is this young boy was retarded. And I don’t mean that as an insult. I mean that because it’s true. He was a mental retard. Not only did he think knowing how many beers are in a case was superior to knowing how many people are in our national legislature, he also had a ton of behavioral problems, suspensions, and…oh…yeah…thought it a good idea to tattoo a spider web around his eye. All of this before he could even get his driver’s permit. But the real reason he was a mental retard had nothing to do with his underage drinking, his idiocy in thinking it was “cool” to display his knowledge of beer trivia,
or his fine choice in ink.

>No, the reason he was retarded is because it was in comparison to me. The truth was this kid in all likelihood had a normal IQ of around 95. Not officially or clinically retarded, but no genius either. Just a normal, typical piece of Wisconsin trailer trash. But as far as what I experienced, what my brain personally interpreted and endured in relation to this kid was one of dealing with a severely retarded individual. For when you compare his normal IQ of 95 to my IQ of 138 the relative experience I endured was that of a normal person dealing with a severely mentally retarded individual.
t. political views entirely focused around being vindictive towards people who were mean to him in high school in 1997
Genuinely struggling to discern wether this book is satire or genuine, it's written by either a precocious 16 year old or an adult that never left the high school mindset kek.

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>Umberto Eco

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kevin rudd first chinese prime minister of australia

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>a fucking bear

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