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Friday, January 8, 2021

To Create a Monumental Disaster, You Need People of High IQ

“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.” ~ Thomas Sowell

High IQ does not imply genius, nor does it imply wisdom, or great knowledge, or better work ethic, or higher moral standards, or better political sensibility. IQ is the measure of a man’s reasoning capacity. People of high IQ are quicker in answering questions and making predictions—this makes them eligible for professions in mainstream media, big legal firms, PR Agencies, multinational corporations, academic institutions, and government bureaucracies. But they tend to be narcissistic. They are convinced of their own brilliance and they want to think for everyone. 

Whenever the people of high IQ are put in a position of power, they develop a totalitarian mindset. They become reckless and insist on following their own mind which they are convinced is brilliant and full of right information. However, problems of the world are far too complicated to be solved by a single mind or even a few minds—howsoever brilliant these minds might be. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini were people of high IQ. They were convinced of their own brilliance. They were convinced that their policies would lead to a perfect world order.

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