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I assumed that most people were cogent enough to sustain their own lives, but upon further examination people are even less 'sensible' than I anticipated. As an autistic looking into the alien workings of the normal mind, the average person is far less capable than I anticipated. I always wondered why normal people clung to dogmas and tribal differences so ardently, but it turns out that their fixations on identity and fitting in is because they offload (a lack of) cognitive processing to social salience. In other words, instead of trying to understand the word genuinely, normal people lack the ability to digest the truth and survive by adopting the customs of a group, their lives are more heuristic than I realized. Their emotional intelligence is attuned to maintaining the rigid customs of their collective, the reason they punish outliers is because this is their instinct; their only means of survival that echoes back to those annals of history wherein Sapiens butted heads with other Homo factions. It's not that 'normies' are callous or unwieldy, it's that they can't conceptualize big issues outside of social context, so they are not even making a conscious effort to brush you off, they just don't have the mental bandwidth to understand decorum for the strange outsider.
That over half of people in the West have an IQ of less than 100 is something I never fully digested until now. Something that shocked me even more is that the average engineer has an IQ of 115, which is way lower than I expected! That's legitimately a 1 in 6 intellect!
Recently I had this revolutonary interaction with a social worker who seemed to have a great career with his own office. Apparently excel was too complicated for him and he struggled to read, but he had a normal life and a normal job as a guidance mentor for the disabled. Then all of a sudden I realized why media and technology keeps getting simpler and simpler with less room for nuance. It's because the average person just doesn't know what's happening around them. They cope with uncertainty through adhering to social mantras, which only works because people are conditioned to have shared moral characteristics through the coruscation that trickles down into the media developed by high IQ individuals trying to guide them in a very hands-off, gentle manner. In such a system, the people that fall through the cracks are guys like Theodore Kaczynski, who I suppose went off the deep end due to a lack of surrogate activity (ironically), simply because there is (or was) a lack of intelligent people that can generate an entertaining enough surrogate activity for high-IQ individuals.
I had made the erroneous assumption that people on blackpill forums were low IQ reprobates, but this is not so because according to this study women lust for 70-100IQ men... So-called incels tend to be at least above 110, typically speaking, which was a shocking revelation to me because if moderate intelligence individuals voice themselves with the stabbing-ly short invective you can see on forums like .is, then what on earth does 'normal self-expression' look like? And I thought a little on it and found the answer, which is that for normal people 'novelty' and 'self-expression' are antithetical, they can only self-express by adopting and refining established cultural motifs because they have no voice and no real means of understanding the world. What was really shocking to me was that in America with a mean IQ of ~98, around 54% of the population is 'partially illiterate'.
Then all of a sudden, all at once, I started to understand that society is a lot kinder than people give it credit for, because the whole of 'the system' is built toward kowtowing toward all types of people. It allows for anyone to externalize their phenotype and build a story where they have utility and are a conscious agent. Aside from an AGI Utopia where individuals are given endless freedoms, what other systems could eclipse Capitalism, this ideology that bestows upon those of all creeds and beliefs, whether opposing or not, the title of consumer, that hallowed title that holds more sway than royalty?
That over half of people in the West have an IQ of less than 100 is something I never fully digested until now. Something that shocked me even more is that the average engineer has an IQ of 115, which is way lower than I expected! That's legitimately a 1 in 6 intellect!
Recently I had this revolutonary interaction with a social worker who seemed to have a great career with his own office. Apparently excel was too complicated for him and he struggled to read, but he had a normal life and a normal job as a guidance mentor for the disabled. Then all of a sudden I realized why media and technology keeps getting simpler and simpler with less room for nuance. It's because the average person just doesn't know what's happening around them. They cope with uncertainty through adhering to social mantras, which only works because people are conditioned to have shared moral characteristics through the coruscation that trickles down into the media developed by high IQ individuals trying to guide them in a very hands-off, gentle manner. In such a system, the people that fall through the cracks are guys like Theodore Kaczynski, who I suppose went off the deep end due to a lack of surrogate activity (ironically), simply because there is (or was) a lack of intelligent people that can generate an entertaining enough surrogate activity for high-IQ individuals.
I had made the erroneous assumption that people on blackpill forums were low IQ reprobates, but this is not so because according to this study women lust for 70-100IQ men... So-called incels tend to be at least above 110, typically speaking, which was a shocking revelation to me because if moderate intelligence individuals voice themselves with the stabbing-ly short invective you can see on forums like .is, then what on earth does 'normal self-expression' look like? And I thought a little on it and found the answer, which is that for normal people 'novelty' and 'self-expression' are antithetical, they can only self-express by adopting and refining established cultural motifs because they have no voice and no real means of understanding the world. What was really shocking to me was that in America with a mean IQ of ~98, around 54% of the population is 'partially illiterate'.
Then all of a sudden, all at once, I started to understand that society is a lot kinder than people give it credit for, because the whole of 'the system' is built toward kowtowing toward all types of people. It allows for anyone to externalize their phenotype and build a story where they have utility and are a conscious agent. Aside from an AGI Utopia where individuals are given endless freedoms, what other systems could eclipse Capitalism, this ideology that bestows upon those of all creeds and beliefs, whether opposing or not, the title of consumer, that hallowed title that holds more sway than royalty?
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