Little Mechanical Minds
The Covert Narcissism, and Genuine Cognitive Dysfunction, of High IQ
Many notables throughout history have discussed how high IQ can be a challenge.
In all these cases, so-called “intelligence” is being defined in the contrived modern sense. A byproduct of the Enlightenment’s redefinition of what it means to be smart.
These quotable figures never could see that the “paralysis” is in fact a mental deficiency; one that became rewarded as our “enlightened” society gained footholds.
Few are willing to admit this, because there are societal points to be won when we frame the costs of our “smartness” as some quirky burden we must virtuously carry; a moral responsibility for our tortured genius.
That pernicious obsession with details and causes would be rejected in any natural setting, but has become the hero’s narrative; the cerebral celebrity a post-religious society needs, to satisfy its replacement of deities with some other cause for human progress.
The more we fit nature into our little mechanical box, the more we reward the limited mechanical mind.
