you know not everybody is equipped to or
interested in engaging in high-level
discussion of abstract and creative
ideas you know you hear this idea that
everyone’s creative that’s a lie it’s as
straightforward as that drew creativity
is very very rare and so and if you
happen to be a creative person or if you
happen to be someone who’s profoundly
interested in ideas you are in a
pronounced minority just as you are if
you happen to be extremely extroverted
or extremely agreeable or extremely
conscientious these are minority issues
and what you do is you find like-minded
people who are capable of engaging that
we know a heavy weight weight heavy
weight weight lifters compete with heavy
weight weight lifters for a reason and
everyone thinks that’s fine the same
thing applies to intellectual and
creative endeavors so what you do is you
try to find a community where that’s
that’s the nature of the community and
you likely have to find a relationship
like that as well you know so I don’t
think so I think what contributes to the
siloing is the arrogance that goes along
with it because if you’re you can be
interested in ideas and you can be
creative well that’s the arrogance of
the intellect right that’s the thing the
Catholic Church had warned about for
centuries is the arrogance of the
intellect so because if you’re if you’re
wise as well as smart and there is no
relationship between being smart and
being wise they are not the same thing
there’s no quick pathway from smart to
wise and many of the people who I’ve
known who were very wise were when some
of them were intellectually impaired and
were skill wise you know so it’s the
arrogance that brings up the block and I
see this for example happening in the
United States in particular because the
last time I went down there for example
I was I had friends down there and and
some of those friends are very very
smart people and some of them were
talking about the Trump voters and they
were talking about the Trump voters with
contempt and I thought you better watch
that because that’s 50% of the damn
population and it might be convenient to
think that they’re stupid and beneath
you but it’s not conducive to a civil
state and there’s no evidence that it’s
true because there isn’t a straight line
between Intel
and wise and so I think that if your if
your character is developed and you’re
intelligent
you can have your siloed creative
community but you develop enough wisdom
so that you can see all the things that
people can do that are of high ethical
utility that are outside the
intellectual domain you know and I think
that’s why in the New Testament I think
that’s why Christ is a carpenter right
because well first of all carpenter is
one of those jobs that when you’re
dishonest it manifests itself
immediately because what you build falls
down and so if you’re an honest
carpenter you build a good house so that
there’s a nice metaphor there but it’s
also it’s also a warning in some sense
against the the equation of intellectual
brilliance with moral superiority and so
if the intellects would drop their moral
superiority and fat chance there is of
that then that divide between the
working class say and the elite would
would resolve and there’s every reason
to have respect for decent working class
people I mean it’s on their labor as the
left-wingers at least hypothetically
agree that the entire edifice of the
culture is is resting so you can have
your cake and eat it too but you have to
not assume that your niche makes you
superior and it’s very difficult for
smart people especially smart there’s a
scene in Nietzsche’s it seems thus spake
Zarathustra we’re 0th Easter the Prophet
comes down from the mountain and he
comes into a public square and there’s
this crowd around this little midget
who’s only about this high who has a
gigantic ear and everyone is marveling
at him well that’s what the modern
intellect is like it’s a midget with a
giant full mouth generally not an ear
and the the being is underdeveloped but
the intellect is hyper activated and and
it makes the person extraordinarily
unbalanced and as part of cuz they they
can’t compete outside the intellectual
realm and that makes them very bitter
because they tend to think
I’m so smart everything should just come
to me it’s like sorry that’s not how the
world works and and it also that that
and that that that attitude is
immediately evident to people that
they’re talking to when they talk in the
manner that they talk if they are
arrogant intellectuals of that sort you
see that and the Simpsons did a good job
of that with Comic Book Guy right I mean
he was completely useless in every
possible dimension with an IQ of about
160 and it’s very annoying to people who
have an IQ of 160 that they can also be
completely useless
but it happens a lot so yeah
[Applause]
interested in engaging in high-level
discussion of abstract and creative
ideas you know you hear this idea that
everyone’s creative that’s a lie it’s as
straightforward as that drew creativity
is very very rare and so and if you
happen to be a creative person or if you
happen to be someone who’s profoundly
interested in ideas you are in a
pronounced minority just as you are if
you happen to be extremely extroverted
or extremely agreeable or extremely
conscientious these are minority issues
and what you do is you find like-minded
people who are capable of engaging that
we know a heavy weight weight heavy
weight weight lifters compete with heavy
weight weight lifters for a reason and
everyone thinks that’s fine the same
thing applies to intellectual and
creative endeavors so what you do is you
try to find a community where that’s
that’s the nature of the community and
you likely have to find a relationship
like that as well you know so I don’t
think so I think what contributes to the
siloing is the arrogance that goes along
with it because if you’re you can be
interested in ideas and you can be
creative well that’s the arrogance of
the intellect right that’s the thing the
Catholic Church had warned about for
centuries is the arrogance of the
intellect so because if you’re if you’re
wise as well as smart and there is no
relationship between being smart and
being wise they are not the same thing
there’s no quick pathway from smart to
wise and many of the people who I’ve
known who were very wise were when some
of them were intellectually impaired and
were skill wise you know so it’s the
arrogance that brings up the block and I
see this for example happening in the
United States in particular because the
last time I went down there for example
I was I had friends down there and and
some of those friends are very very
smart people and some of them were
talking about the Trump voters and they
were talking about the Trump voters with
contempt and I thought you better watch
that because that’s 50% of the damn
population and it might be convenient to
think that they’re stupid and beneath
you but it’s not conducive to a civil
state and there’s no evidence that it’s
true because there isn’t a straight line
between Intel
and wise and so I think that if your if
your character is developed and you’re
intelligent
you can have your siloed creative
community but you develop enough wisdom
so that you can see all the things that
people can do that are of high ethical
utility that are outside the
intellectual domain you know and I think
that’s why in the New Testament I think
that’s why Christ is a carpenter right
because well first of all carpenter is
one of those jobs that when you’re
dishonest it manifests itself
immediately because what you build falls
down and so if you’re an honest
carpenter you build a good house so that
there’s a nice metaphor there but it’s
also it’s also a warning in some sense
against the the equation of intellectual
brilliance with moral superiority and so
if the intellects would drop their moral
superiority and fat chance there is of
that then that divide between the
working class say and the elite would
would resolve and there’s every reason
to have respect for decent working class
people I mean it’s on their labor as the
left-wingers at least hypothetically
agree that the entire edifice of the
culture is is resting so you can have
your cake and eat it too but you have to
not assume that your niche makes you
superior and it’s very difficult for
smart people especially smart there’s a
scene in Nietzsche’s it seems thus spake
Zarathustra we’re 0th Easter the Prophet
comes down from the mountain and he
comes into a public square and there’s
this crowd around this little midget
who’s only about this high who has a
gigantic ear and everyone is marveling
at him well that’s what the modern
intellect is like it’s a midget with a
giant full mouth generally not an ear
and the the being is underdeveloped but
the intellect is hyper activated and and
it makes the person extraordinarily
unbalanced and as part of cuz they they
can’t compete outside the intellectual
realm and that makes them very bitter
because they tend to think
I’m so smart everything should just come
to me it’s like sorry that’s not how the
world works and and it also that that
and that that that attitude is
immediately evident to people that
they’re talking to when they talk in the
manner that they talk if they are
arrogant intellectuals of that sort you
see that and the Simpsons did a good job
of that with Comic Book Guy right I mean
he was completely useless in every
possible dimension with an IQ of about
160 and it’s very annoying to people who
have an IQ of 160 that they can also be
completely useless
but it happens a lot so yeah
[Applause]
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