RusselWilsonJr
Who do you think you are? I am
I feel what you are tryin to get across but I think you are projecting yourself onto things a bit much, as well as I might. But the reason a lot of intelligent people come across as assholes, is because…A great many people that are of high intelligence, dare I say the overwhelming majority of us, are quite humble. We work regular jobs, run businesses here and there, and have a "normal" lot in life. The reason that I've come to find is that being labeled as "genius" or of high intelligence sets an expectation in society that many of us have no desire to live up to. True, it allows us to see the functional idiots in our everyday lives, but that doesn't mean "be a dick" off rip. Nope, it just means you see the world for what it is and you move according to what best suits you.
The person Amanda appears to be is someone that is "smart", but not very "intelligent". Smart people always feel as if they have something to prove, they have to show off that they know more, have read more, they regurgitate facts and figures they memorized. They are always in competition with those around them to show how much they know and to be better than them; these are the arrogant assholes you're thinking of. Nearly anyone can become smart through work.
The intelligent person isn't like that; we exist as we are, not showing off, not spouting off facts and figures. Intelligence yields ideas, abstractions, reasoning, and challenges to what's presented to them. People like this have a natural curiosity about the world around them, its many facets, and how it works. Intelligence is something you're really born with; it is your innate nature. It expresses itself in many ways but usually as a person that questions what they're taught and looks beyond the page in front of them. You can train yourself to be smart, but intelligence is something you're born with.
To put it another way: A smart person can about read and tell you what Nikola Tesla has done and to the average person this is impressive, an intelligent person can read his work, but has the capacity to understand it, can apply it, and seeks to improve it or to challenge it all together.
So, NDT was on Amber Rose’s podcast. He’s smart enough to know who Amber Rose is, and smart enough to know who her audience is. She asked a question about Astrology, a pet peeve of his.
Now, the type of intellectual person you are thinking of is also emotionally and socially intelligent. Enough so, that they have empathy for those that require certain things within that element. That their own intelligence makes it so they don’t necessarily need it, cause facts don’t care about your feelings
He could have found a way to tell her and her audience, how the science doesn’t agree with a lot of the basics of astrology and then be empathetic as to why human beings desire to find meaning in life, because philosophy is also a subject he’s well verse in.
But because the logical objective facts are so above the nonense involved, he just rawly kinda shits on Amber and her audience. Leaving Amber to say that she just plays with astrology, but you can see how he made her feel.
And, in his life, neither she nor her fans matter, so..he doesn’t care. Most..intelligent people are like this. Not all, but most.