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- inactive, on 11/07/2007, -13/+546this is why intelligence is being evolved out of the human race
- bitt3n, on 11/07/2007, -8/+379I understood your comment, and it's more than I can bear.
Goodbye, everyone. I'm so sorry. - devindotcom, on 11/07/2007, -25/+285me no understand you're comment
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -1/+249I tend to be unhappy because I'm surrounded by ***** morons.
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -8/+212Does anyone else here purposely hide their knowledge sometimes to avoid being labeled as a "know-it-all"? I am often too embarrassed to comment on something just because others will find it crazy that I know so much about it. To put it plainly; I will sometimes play dumb just to fit in with everyone else.
- coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+192Unforunately, this is true. Intelligent people are too aware of how dismal our world truly is.
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -5/+169This article made me more intelligent, hence the reason I'm now sad. Dammit.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -5/+159And that all the hot chicks seem to breed with the stupid ones.
- xkenny13, on 10/12/2007, -5/+156"Ignorance is bliss..."
- 405994, on 10/12/2007, -15/+144Attention Emo's, please do not use this as an excuse for acting unhappy, or arrogant.
- scrambled, on 10/12/2007, -6/+134"this is why intelligence is being evolved out of the human race"
No, it's being DESIGNED out of the human race. Heathen. - LowRentDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+132I also think that more intelligent people have a harder time accepting faith in religion and therefore struggle more with finding purpose and meaning in life. It's definitely a lot easier to get through a bad day when you think Jesus will reward you some day than it is when you have no clue what the end game is.
- VModulus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+123... or drugs.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+119What's interesting is that some researches believe that people with ADD have higher IQ's than average. It makes sense. If you're brain is moving to fast to focus on schoolwork ect. you will look for other things to occupy your mind. That is the very essence of distraction.
Our industrialized educational system doesn't help either. Special attention is given to those who struggle in school, which is good, but the smarter kids are expected to sit quietly and be bored to death in average classes. Compare the level of spending for special needs programs to gifted programs. It's depressing. - jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -6/+119I agree with many of the things mentioned in the article. In addition, the article fails to mention that exceptionally smart people have issues because their brain works so fast. That is, it operates in many more cycles or words-per-minute than the average person. This causes all kinds of problems.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+115Because we realize how truly ***** stupid the rest of the world is, and how it's not getting any better.
- Muyoso, on 11/07/2007, -7/+111Good to know that everyone on Digg is happy and safe from suicide.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -9/+100@ 405994
Lol, Emo's aren't smart silly. They wouldn't be EMO if they were. - robharper, on 10/12/2007, -6/+91*Puts flowers on Algernon's grave.*
- drewhenson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+85why is Hemingway always so right and so depressing?
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+82@jguy584
Not to sound like a show off or anything but I do the same thing. I've gotten to the point where I just don't participate in class discussions because when I answer a question right over and over everyone just kind of starts to get that angry look, you know? It's easier to just get a question wrong and be like the herd on the outside.
I love to have deep conversations about life and the such, but whenever I try the response I usually get is something like "Wow, I want some of what you're smoking" or "YOUR WRONG, SHUT UP". Most of the time I feel like I'm the only one in school that actually has a desire to learn and excel.
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Skip the tattoo, let's RFID tag them. - oskite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71"It also gets annoying when I answer my own question before it's halfway asked."
amen. I'm always saying something like, 'So why do you think tha—oh.' So much that people take notice. And it has the opposite effect. It makes you look unintelligent. Drives me crazy. - Renton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68I guess linux is for geniuses because setting it up made me want to kill myself.
- resplence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+62FTA: " It should come as no surprise that the vast majority of prison inmates are socially and emotionally underdeveloped or maldeveloped and a larger than average percentage of them are more intelligent than the norm."
Hmm I thought I'd seen quite a few studies linking prison inmates to low IQs. - vwvwvw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Exactly, the ability to recognize the sheer number of people who are full of crap makes you want to hole up somewhere and dedicate your life to something non-living.
On the flip side, smarter people tend to over-analyze every minute of their lives. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -6/+59jcs, thanks I never knew that but it explains why I'm so aggrivated with a lot of the people around me. In my personal experience it causes problems when I can figure out something so quickly because I judge the people around me based on how long I think something should take.
It also gets annoying when I answer my own question before it's halfway asked. - plugues, on 10/12/2007, -5/+57I blame intellectual property and the mass culture industry.
- hunglowang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51It's too bad that intelligent people and their great contribution to the world is not visible on their outer appearance as they walk on the street. They usually just look more vunerable, thus become easily get picked on, robbed or harassed. Sometimes i think the world is sorta broken. And we need to release a patch soon.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50can't help but grin.
- brinser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46personally I blame the RIAA
- SlayerKid99, on 10/12/2007, -5/+48They see the world for what it is.... a terrible, violent, and depressing place.
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47 Public schooling system kills intelligence, it raises obedient workers that react to school bells like Pavlov's dogs. They're shaping us into identical sacks of meat that can dig a hole, pull a trigger, and more importantly, obey without questioning. They give us grades to reward how well we fit the template. They make us feel good for being dumb and unoriginal and they punish those that choose to seek their own identity.
I have a friend who is incredibly intelligent. He can learn anything in no time. Amazing memory and superb logic, however he is highly antisocial and those that are better developed in that sense take advantage of him all the time. He does work for his colleagues that fall behind on their work and they get all the credit, while he ends up getting blamed.
With greater intelligence comes disillusionment in principles this world operates on.
There is no reward for those that are smart and geeks will never have a place, as there will always be a guy with no skills, but with all the money running the show. It's not going to get better. It'll be getting worse. Only worse. - Ap31r0n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Can we give stupid people a tattoo so they know they are dumb?
yes I am baiting you. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45So a highschool athlete who thinks he's the ***** but could get beat by millions of people he's never competed against can wank his ego and garner praise for it but we can't have our little superiority complex?
This is the one thing I get to be a jackass about on a regular basis and I plan on exploiting every opportunity until it gets boring.
Some of us are Mensa qualified by the way :P. - Taromsn, on 10/12/2007, -12/+49Alright, this is getting to be a masturbatory thread for people who are marginally smarter than the rest.
Most of you are not significantly intelligent. You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are not Hemingway, you are not some romanticized notion of a savant who's stuck in their mindless corporate job.
Get over it. - raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Maybe the right question would be: Why Sad People Tend To Be More Intelligent?
Because after reading the article I realized that maybe the people with difficult childhoods which isolate them socially have to develop their intelligence to survive while their peers have happy memories and a relatively troubleless life. The sad ones never learn how to fit in and be happy but they use their intelligence to work around their social incompatibility.
But there is smart and happy people. - plato1123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38LOL the vote seems to be 24 to 1 in favor of drugs over love =-p
- neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36I should show this article to my shrink
- MDrake, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39I think intelligent people are suicidal because they realize the corruptions and horrors of the world that the stupid and ignorant do not.
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Why I'm.. I'm the last brain cell! Well at least I have my books.. *glasses fall to the floor and break*
But that's-... that's not fair!
Jimzip :D - vicaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Intelligence tends to give you heightened sensitivity to many stimuli, including pain and sorrow.
The ultimate form of intelligence is wisdom, which let you see a bigger picture, where you can feel everyone's happiness and sadness besides yours.
I'm all for a wiser human race. - Flashtone, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40All you need its loveee!
- sillyg00se, on 10/12/2007, -14/+45Hilarious, depressing, and true.
- johnwc723, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32It all makes sense why I'm here browsing digg on a Saturday night.... :(
- xyzunit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34And to think I was just gonna use this as an excuse for swallowing this new bottle of sleeping pills....
- mikeyj10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I like how everyone posting automatically assumes this article includes them.
- wassim2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33@ap31r0n
Isn't that what all those lower-back tattoos are for? The so called "tramp marks" - zombiedepot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I can agree with a majority of the article, but I think all happiness is fleeting. Besides all that, we are living in mediocrity brought upon us by an education system which aims to indoctrinate versus educate. I believe all people are capable of learning, but given the situation many take the easy way out.
The Rockefeller board of education even stated in a letter when they created the current system, that it was not their goal to seek out the best in people. As far as I know, this hasn't changed much since it's inception in the early 1900s.
"In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk.
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply."
- Frederick Taylor Gates, General Education Board - samssf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31See I dunno man... I think more people need to study psychology. I'm atheist and consider myself to be pretty intelligent, but don't really have a hard time with this. I would think that smart people would realize that death is not scary and since there is nothing we can do about it, it's fun to just enjoy life. It seems that smarter people would concentrate more on doing things that make them enjoy life. Although religious people believe in an afterlife, they also believe that the good and bad things that happen to them in life are the work of God, whereas I know that when I accomplish something, it's my hard work that paid off. And when I do something negative, I realize that it's my fault and work on correcting that behavior.
Although many people don't realize it... they are actually in control of their emotions and what they feel. It's possible for the most ***** up ***** to happen to you, and to still be happy. I guess this skill is more along the lines of emotional skill and emotional master... but if you've read Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (a decent book), then you that intelligence is not just about IQ, but that several skills / character traits contribute to overall intelligence. It seems this article is referring mostly to people who possess high IQ. -
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