often what people say is influenced by emotions they don’t truly understand. you could say, duh, that’s obvious. but almost no one actually analyses what and why they say things.
you could call it irrationality. someone will say something related to what they feel, regardless of whether its relevant, important, or a good idea in context. you may be wondering by now, what’s the point, how does this relate to morons thinking geniuses are morons and vice versa. well often they will say they are morons because A: it makes them feel better for being a moron, B: the genius is smart at some things and dumb emotionally or in a social context, or C: geniuses feel easy to make fun of, because surely, the morons think, anyone above us couldn’t feel too bad (and if they do morons feel empowered) for being harassed or made fun of by someone dumb. I trust you’ll make the connections and realize relevance.
but I think the most important factor, is other people. if your in a room by yourself with a genius, you probably wont make fun of them. there’s no one else to laugh and you get very little out of it. put yourself in a different situation with people, you will say things that you maybe don’t fully believe because you get something out of it, human approval. that’s all people want these days anyway, we are a social species after all.
so anyway, you explored the how, I somewhat over complicated the why. but I’m glad people these days are realising even the why even if it is relatively surface level, because I was beginning to lose hope.
often what people say is influenced by emotions they don’t truly understand. you could say, duh, that’s obvious. but almost no one actually analyses what and why they say things.
you could call it irrationality. someone will say something related to what they feel, regardless of whether its relevant, important, or a good idea in context. you may be wondering by now, what’s the point, how does this relate to morons thinking geniuses are morons and vice versa. well often they will say they are morons because A: it makes them feel better for being a moron, B: the genius is smart at some things and dumb emotionally or in a social context, or C: geniuses feel easy to make fun of, because surely, the morons think, anyone above us couldn’t feel too bad (and if they do morons feel empowered) for being harassed or made fun of by someone dumb. I trust you’ll make the connections and realize relevance.
but I think the most important factor, is other people. if your in a room by yourself with a genius, you probably wont make fun of them. there’s no one else to laugh and you get very little out of it. put yourself in a different situation with people, you will say things that you maybe don’t fully believe because you get something out of it, human approval. that’s all people want these days anyway, we are a social species after all.
so anyway, you explored the how, I somewhat over complicated the why. but I’m glad people these days are realising even the why even if it is relatively surface level, because I was beginning to lose hope.