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March 11, 2016
"Self-esteem is the new intelligence"
Sultan Knish: Smartly Stupid : Smart once used to be an unreachable quality.
Einstein was proclaimed a genius, because it was said that no one understood his theories. Those were undemocratic times when it was assumed that the eggheads playing with the atom had to be a lot smarter than us or we were in big trouble. Intelligence has since been democratized. Smart has been redistributed. Anyone can get an A for effort. And the impulse of manufactured intelligence is not smart people, but people who make us feel smart. Self-esteem is the new intelligence. Obama's intelligence was manufactured by pandering to the biases and tastes of his supporters. The more he shared their biases and tastes, the smarter he seemed to be and the smarter they felt by having so much in common with such a smart man.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 11, 2016 6:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.