Kerry's a Genius...NOT!!!

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  1. little fauss

    little fauss New Member

    Counselor.
     
  2. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Your Honor!!
     
  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Actually, one of the first things you learn in B-School is: "Be nice to your A and B students, as they come back as your fellow professors, but be especially nice to your C students, as they will come back to endow the university!"
     
  4. little fauss

    little fauss New Member

    How could I have forgotten that one? That's great, Osborne! :D
     
  5. joi

    joi New Member

    Some of the best and wealthiest businessmen in my country are high school dropouts.

    I got to know one of them quite well. He had just 3 years of formal education, and yet he's one of the best read, most eloquent people I've ever talked to. He also has impressive interpersonal skills and, of course, many university graduates working for him.

    The other feature I noticed in my country in the disproportionate percentage of successful individuals who are laywers by training, yet got wealthy in the business sector, particularly the industrial and high tech sectors. Again, most MBA and economists worlk for these people.

    This seems to be changing, though. With the advent of internet-related technologies, lots of entrepeneurial-minded university and business graduates are becoming quite successful.

    As for politicians, most of them seem to have born mediocre and still are (besides being amazingly corrupt).

    We recently had an engineer who graduated Summa Cum Laude as president. He is now the richest person in my country while Paraguayans are sufering one of the worst economic crises in our history.

    So, in our case, grades not necessarily guarantee good leaders.
     
  6. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    Re: Re: Kerry's a Genius...NOT!!!

    It's more likely a reluctance (not fear) to vote for people who aren't smarter than you are, but who think that they are.

    There's a serious political point here. It's the distinction between top-down government and bottom-up government. For all of its faults (and it was dismissed from the very beginning as just the rule of the mob) democracy is by its very nature bottom-up. And there have always been those, from Plato's guardians in the 'Republic', through 17'th century absolute monarchs, to today's Chinese party mandarins, who have believed themselves better qualified to rule.

    I don't think that Bush is dumb. He's probably in the high-average intelligence range, same as Gore and Kerry.

    Bush's problem is that he's not a very good public speaker. He is very careful about what he says and you can almost see him inspecting his lines in his mind's eye before he delivers them. So he hesitates, looks blank for a moment and interspaces his remarks with "uhhh...".

    Of course, smooth delivery isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all of intelligence. Many Hollywood actors aren't intellectuals, but they are smooth as all hell. And some top university professors with mega-IQs are almost painful to watch up there at the lecturn.
     
  7. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I think that the left and the right are similar in that regard (as they are in so many ways).

    The left likes to believe that it is more intelligent than the common herd, and hence better qualified to instruct and guide them.

    The right likes to believe that it is more moral and upright than the common herd, and hence better qualified to instruct and guide them.

    I think that in both cases these self-bestowed superiorities are little more than conceits.
     
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  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    nothing new here
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Careful not to say that too loudly. You might piss off both the Left and the Right!
     
  10. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Re: Re: Re: Kerry's a Genius...NOT!!!

    But I never said he was. My whole theory is that he's very intelligent (even if he is a Republican) and merely plays dumb in order to pass himself off as one of the people ("the guy you'd wanna have a brewsky with").
     
  11. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Kerry's a Genius...NOT!!!

    Exactamundo!


    Abner :)
     

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