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Surprise: The "Smartest" People Are Actually Painfully Stupid
Manhattan Contrarian. ^ | November 17, 2020 | Francis Menton

Posted on 11/18/2020 3:05:42 PM PST by lasereye

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To: lasereye

The most dangerous people are those who are educated beyond their intelligence.


21 posted on 11/18/2020 3:44:17 PM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: EEGator

LOL!!

Ah, I take klonopin for seizures after a head injury over a decade ago..but I haven’t had a seizure for centuries now :)

If you don’t take them for a while, when you take 2 or 3 you get a nice relaxing feeling :)

I stopped drinking at home for the most part.

And it’s been downhill ever since :)


22 posted on 11/18/2020 3:44:38 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: colorado tanker

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” William F. Buckley, Jr.

Amen


23 posted on 11/18/2020 3:46:09 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: nicollo

LOL!!

Put a dozen or so in the mail and I’ll send you my address :)

Our government sends billions to fight hunger around the world when there are US citizens eating stale chips!!


24 posted on 11/18/2020 3:46:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

If I weren’t right at the end of my life, I’d be watching Jordan Peterson and Jocko Willink on youtube with a view to restarting.


25 posted on 11/18/2020 3:49:30 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: lasereye

Anyone who has to TELL you that they’re smart - is an imbecile.


26 posted on 11/18/2020 3:52:45 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: colorado tanker

Great post. Cuts right to the core of the question.


27 posted on 11/18/2020 3:52:50 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lasereye; All
"Surprise: The "Smartest" People Are Actually Painfully Stupid Indoctrinated"

I will initially give people the benefit of the doubt on stupid because many times they have probably been indoctrinated up to their eyeballs.

Insights welcome.

28 posted on 11/18/2020 3:53:13 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: dp0622

Well, dp0622, you contribute much to FR. Thank you.


29 posted on 11/18/2020 3:55:52 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: dsc

I had to look up both names.

I am sorry if you are ill.

Will say a prayer.

Kind of a hard thing to respond to in a post.

So I’ll stop there and wish you the best...


30 posted on 11/18/2020 3:56:29 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Hey thanks man :)

Appreciate it!


31 posted on 11/18/2020 3:58:10 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Amendment10

Don’t know if it’s an insight, but I posit the existence of “default liberals,” who have never focused on the issues, but to get leftwads out of their lab will say, “Yes, yes, communism forever, right, now I have work to do.”

If these people ever focused their minds on the matter, they’d reject leftism, but they hardly ever do. Not interested.


32 posted on 11/18/2020 3:58:22 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: dp0622

Can’t recommend Peterson and Willink strongly enough.


33 posted on 11/18/2020 4:04:01 PM PST by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL!


34 posted on 11/18/2020 4:04:30 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: lasereye

The most “educated” people seem to have all the common sense “educated” out of them.

I’ve seen examples of this my entire life.


35 posted on 11/18/2020 4:06:16 PM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: lasereye

.....Science is back! After four dreadful years of the “anti-science” Trump, we are now going to see, with Biden, the restoration of “science” to its rightful place in the formulation of public policy.....

A recent issue of the leading scientific journal “Nature” had article after article in its front section saying the same thing. But there was NO MENTION of biden’s dementia!!!!

“You got to follow the science!!!!” A demented president is in no way competent to understand science—let alone “bring it back”! All he can do is to be manipulated by his handlers to give the appearance of making science “important once again”.

And that might REALLY mean making globalism important once again, which is the last thing we “deplorables” (even those of us with Harvard degrees) want!!!!


36 posted on 11/18/2020 4:06:21 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: lasereye

I have a Harvard Business School in-law who lost power in a storm. I let him borrow my generator, which he retrieved in a borrowed pickup. He ran the generator from the pickup bed for 3 days while it melted the bed liner.

He might be able to borrow my generator again, but maybe not that pickup truck.


37 posted on 11/18/2020 4:09:24 PM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: lasereye

Bookmark.


38 posted on 11/18/2020 4:12:41 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: lasereye

One way that biden and harris might make “globalism important again” is by putting individuals like Holdren into powerful positions in their administration. NO THANK YOU!!!!

Stop the steal!!!! Four more years for Trump/Pence!!!!


39 posted on 11/18/2020 4:16:08 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: lasereye; All
The common opinion about our professors when I was in college back in the 60s was that they weren't smart enough to make it in the private sector so they taught school.

We called it college dumb.

40 posted on 11/18/2020 4:16:31 PM PST by HotHunt
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