Posted on 10/11/2010 4:37:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono
As a retired combat vet, Army Ranger, who was a member of Mensa about 20 years ago, I’ve never considered myself a self-indulgent liberal douchebag.
But you’re welcome. Glad to fight for your freedom to express your opinion
“But you?re welcome. Glad to fight for your freedom to express your opinion”
Tell us your experience and what you gained? I guess I was bound to offend someone... Was it a positive experience? Thanks for your service.
Others here were saying that they found it full of liberals. My experience was that they much more often self-identified as libertarians.
The Mensans also would state as a matter of fact that other Mensans tend to be libertarianism. I think they may have done some surveys, maybe at Regional Gatherings, that they also quoted from. There are many more male than female members and in the area I was in many worked in high tech, which also leans libertarian.
“My intelligence actually caused me to become very bored in school (except for history) and I have an inherent lazy streak that took me years to overcome..
Me too. I attended the best private school for 9 years prior to high school. I went to a public high school and went awry. I was bored and distracted.It hasn’t been until now(I’m 39) that I’m returning to school for my MBA. I’m more of a common sense(well rounded) person than I am “smart”.
It’s not that intelligent people tend to be underachievers, it is that socially awkward intelligent people tend to be underachievers—who then seek each other out via Mensa.
There are also some high achievers in Mensa, but there is an over-representation of certain types. My experience was that there was an over-representation of morbidly obese people, as well as of flaming libertines.
I was thinking about him the other day. What happened to him?
Underachievers have mental capabilities but lack emotional hardiness. They can't stand the hurly-burly of competitive achievement. So they don't quite get the degree, or if they do, get a lesser job. All in all, they don't get the objective status of their emotionally-hardier mental peers. Different things attract different people to Mensa, but for many the big attraction is that it provides a public badge of their mental abilities, a badge they can get just by passing a test, something they do easily without anxiety.
Noting some of the comments on this thread about people in Mensa leaning more libertarian, maybe they could be viewed as underachievers because they don't let others set their standards for them.
When I was young, I joined Mensa, thinking it might be a good way to meet smart women. I was right, unfortunately, they were mostly middle aged housewives. I didn’t renew my membership.
He passed away in August.
I’ll never be as smart as those guys, so I’ll just make fun of them:
Beede Beede
I have wondered if Rio Linda has a chapter? I could Google it, but I don’t really want to know. I just find thought entertaining.
“dumb people are more fun to be around...”
I’m not sure if I should be offended by that or not.......... J/k :)
I would only note that even an iconoclast, if he’s smart, can achieve high status. So we can have underachievers in that category, too.
Duhhhh, group rate fer wut.
Let’s all pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart we are. Meanwhile, I will secretly think that everyone else in the room is not quite as smart as I am. Of course, I will despise the ones who demonstrate that they are smarter than I am.
And then I can go back out in the world and smugly think about how dumb everyone else is. And look forward with mixed emotions to the next Mensa meeting, where I will feel exalted by being in the company of geniuses, and deflated when someone shows me up.
Surely, there must be things more important than a high IQ.
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