Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Edgar Allan Poe
\nWhy is the ability to think so denigrated in our society? Why are bright people so reviled? Why is more than one question on a subject deemed to be didactic? It must be the only human condition in which the plenty are pitied by the meagre, the rich by the poor. Usually the blessed make the allowances for the unfortunates. Not so with the old grey matter. The answer to one question in a Proust type survey, \u201c What is the most overrated virtue\u201d was given as \u201cintelligence\u201d too many times for society to feel anything but uncomfortable\u2026 and v. worried. (Notwithstanding the anomaly that intelligence is regarded as a virtue by these respondents!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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