I can’t comment on your intelligence but as a general rationality issue this sets off warning bells.
As written sounds like: No offense, but the fact you said this makes me think you’re dumb.
Better: Fictional characters (especially those in works of propaganda) are designed to seem super smart, super rational, super moral and so on. Don’t make yourself feel stupid by comparing yourself to impossible ideals—even Einstein didn’t do things as impressive as Galt, the fact you feel inferior to them doesn’t tell you much about how smart you are.
Interesting. I’m a bit confused as how it does that especially given that I specifically am talking about rationality not intelligence (and those are very much not the same thing). I can see that your rewrite is fine but I can’t see what is bad about the original.
As written sounds like: No offense, but the fact you said this makes me think you’re dumb.
Better: Fictional characters (especially those in works of propaganda) are designed to seem super smart, super rational, super moral and so on. Don’t make yourself feel stupid by comparing yourself to impossible ideals—even Einstein didn’t do things as impressive as Galt, the fact you feel inferior to them doesn’t tell you much about how smart you are.
Interesting. I’m a bit confused as how it does that especially given that I specifically am talking about rationality not intelligence (and those are very much not the same thing). I can see that your rewrite is fine but I can’t see what is bad about the original.