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How many people do you know that fit the description of smart? By what standard?

From my country: look into the history of the De Witt brothers.

Eventually, they were brought down in an orchestrated disgusting mob lynching for what? For being not dumb enough.

And plotting the events since that fatal episode, freedom has had to move continents, and wait another 100 years to rear it's presence.

Time and again, we see the same plots occur, and we simply let it happen.

Being smarter than average is dangerous. Being more reasonable than average is dangerous.

This seems to me is a perpetual tension between the lead average and leadership.

By diluting the average, dumbing down occurs, and causes tensions within a populace. And the easiest solution is to curtail the smarter parts of society.