On Stupid People With A High IQ - MGTOW

I explore some of the quirky sides of high IQ individuals. Specifically, I explore how people of high IQ can still turn out to be completely retarded.

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Intelligence has been a focal point in several politically charged areas. Within MGTOW, where men are juxtaposed against women, intelligence has been one battle ground on which MGTOW have claimed and defended the superiority of men. On the alt-right side, where race is juxtaposed to race, intelligence is also brought up as a mechanism of arguing for superiority. However, what is not often explored are some of the quirks that pertain to intelligence. Intelligence is universally treated as a desirable trait in the unqualified sense. In fact, there is no argument I have encountered under which high intelligence is portrayed negatively.

So far, all accounts of intelligence that I have seen have for the most part succumbed to the same ailment that modern science as a whole is guilty of. Intelligence is mathematized and all that which flows as a consequent of intelligence but does not necessarily lend itself to a consistent pattern is ignored. This treatment of intelligence, or IQ, leads to a disembodied, dehumanized phenomenon akin to raw computational power of the central processing unit of a computer.

But let us ask ourselves a few simple questions in relation to intelligence to see where it belongs as part of a whole human being. Does intelligence make a man good in relation to others; namely, is someone of higher intelligence necessarily someone who is more just? The answer is clearly no. The most tyrannical of men have been some of the most intelligent of men. Does a high intelligence necessarily make one hold a greater share of temperance or fortitude? In other words, does having a higher intelligence mean that one will not be susceptible to bouts of violent outbursts, cowardice, or prevents one from vices of the flesh life alcoholism, drug addiction, gluttony or lust? Here again the answer is clearly no.

Intelligent men are indeed also found among the violent, drug addicted, cowards, and so on. What about wisdom? Does having a higher intelligence necessarily entail that a man will be wise in his actions? Naturally the answer to this is also no as it flows from the previous examples we have listed. And perhaps the most damning question of all is the following: does having a higher intelligence necessarily make one more rational? One would hope that if nothing else, at least rationality within a person would be a necessary consequence of a high intelligence. Yet here too we find ourselves answering in the negative.

What I want to do in this video is read out an essay by David Quinn as to his experience of being a member of an exclusive online forum for MENSA members. MENSA, for those who may have never heard of this group before is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

Clearly, by its very selection criteria, MENSA is a group of the most intelligent people in the world. However, as we will come to see from Quinn’s essay, they are also some of the most intellectually bankrupt people in the world. I have met people like this on many occasions. Nietzsche writes about these sorts of people as well; he calls them the scholarly oxen. You have also encountered these characters in one form or another. These people were some of your professors at university.

But let us see what Quinn has to say. The essay is entitled “The Limitations of Academic Intelligence: Reflections upon my lynching at Ne Ultra Plus and an analysis of the psychology of academic intellectuals.”
I could see from the beginning, even before I began posting, that it was not a suitable forum for spiritual and philosophical discussion. Although Ne Plus Ultra promotes itself as an exclusive, invitation-only forum for highly intelligent, creative people, the intelligence and creativity on display was of a very narrow kind. The discussion threads were dominated by MENSA-type personalities who like to write in convoluted, hyper-complex sentences about issues that generally have little connection with reality. They were extremely academic in their mode of thought, as well as ultra-scientific in that peculiarly shallow American way. They displayed little or no capacity for deeper modes of thought and, as far as I could see, no interest in wisdom. The signs didn’t look good.