Just to point out, in case anyone doesn't know already, online IQ tests are not reliable.

Why not just delete spam? On top of that, it's been posted by a troll. You could remove the trolls too.

yet I have read all this crap and I havent found a reason to post, so I aint posting at all

....but, Xeno drinks alcohol because alcohol is known as a good conservative, and he loves to swallow conservatives, thats the only political stuff in all this absurd

now you can close it!  damnit X(

> Firefox wrote:

> ive not read the whole thread, but if you've got high iq you're more luikely to consume more than average amounts of alcohol. therefor my guess is its to blot out thinking about things like your own mortality, life & the universe, essentially the point of existence.

everyone has their crutch, 'religion is the opiate of the masses' & all that

>"add to my earlier post maybe more pressure from high stress / well paying jobs etc"

This is getting closer, however, another hint is that the reason has something to do with politics, hence why it was posted in politics before wornstrum moved it here.  (When the answer comes out, I wonder if the thread will be moved back to politics).

/closed

Thread Starter not worth anyones time

close it, I have already answered correctly

The funny thing is, the unethical intelligent people tend to be less intelligent than the ethical intelligent people, and the only way the unethical intelligent people can utilize people more intelligent than them is by finding a way to trick them.  This, of course, is difficult.  The traditional way of doing so in the past was by the propagation of notions of the legitimacy of hierarchical systems, whereby levels of secrecy or 'security clearance' prevented the ethical intelligent people from being aware of the agendas that the unethical intelligent people in command had in mind, case in point the Manhattan Project.  The ethical intelligentsia have been burned by such systems, and, for the most part, don't participate in them anymore, which I would think is very worrying to the unethical intelligentsia establishment.

What I wonder is whether they are smart enough to know how less intelligent they really are.

i need a drink to get thru that

"The most intelligent and most ethical individuals perceive the following first: due to the systemically unjust structure of civilization, the pursuit and fulfillment of individual economic opportunity inevitably comes at the expense of economic opportunity of others."

Bogus except in the highly rhetorical sense that the electric energy we burnt in this thread COULD HAVE gone to African nuseries in a hypothetical nonexistent system of power distribution, so, presuming what does not exist is morally superior to what does exist, and confers real guilt on people who can't bring it about, you killed babies by typing that.

"Now, because it is the most intelligent and most ethical individuals who realise this first, they are thus the first to refrain from pursuing their own economic opportunities.  This, however, only results in the less ethical, less intelligent individuals fulfilling their economic opportunities and gaining political power, which in turn leads to yet more systemic injustice. Ultimately, there is a process by which levels of systemic injustice increase exponentially as more and more intelligent and ethical individuals become aware of what is happening and thus likewise refrain from pursuing their economic opportunity. "

Looking back, the University itself is a development that has always undermined and corrupted the societies that raise it.  Case in point - if you hadn't gone to university, you couldn't use all those syllables.  You'd have to come right out and say it: "Real Men Don't Work".  This blue-collar expression of contempt for those who do work would be instantly understandable and society would impose sanctions on you, instead of offering respect for proposing indescipherable ethical pablums - because university encourages everyone to seek the limits of their own understanding, in the vain belief that people who go farther that others in acquiring understanding are really better people; so, to be confused presumably means one has encountered a superior being.  In fact, silly assedness is just as confusing as quantum physics.

"Looking back, the University itself is a development that has always undermined and corrupted the societies that raise it."

Totally agree.

"if you hadn't gone to university, you couldn't use all those syllables."

Not any more.  You can get a better education via google, wikipedia, other internet material and online discussion forums than at any university program in the world.  I guesstimate maybe another century remains of the academic establishment / university institutions.

> You can get a better education via google, wikipedia, other internet material and online discussion forums than at any university program in the world.

This explains a lot.

I really am tired of taking insults from people. 

@Wornstrum,
As a mod, I would expect better from you.

"yet they still take the step back. They willfully allow society to crap itself"

It is better than the alternative.

render YOU are the drunken master