I have had debates on here about various issues. One of the debates was about why Africa is always in disarray.
So I talked to a guy from Nigeria and asked him why?
He looked at me and said.
It's simple of why Africa is in bad shape. He said....
Too many difference of opinions of how things should be. He said for example.
In Nigeria. There are over 500 different tribes. With various languages and cultures.
I told him my doctor was from Nigeria to. He said... What is his name.
I told him.
He goes.
Ah... an EBO man with a smile.
I said what's the smile about.
He said.. No offense to your doctor. But we DON'T TRUST EBO guys.
I said why..
He said they are shady and are money hustlers.
I said wow.
He said there are tons of African tribes that HATE EACH other.
Basically he said it's no different than DIE HARD LIBERALS fighting against DIE HARD CONVERSATIVES.
He said.. just imagine if there were 500+ political parties all with various thought processes. He said how much in fighting would there be.
He said. it has nothing to do with intelligence or anything like that.
He said it's all about ego. Such as "Our tribe" is better then your "tribe".
I thought this was interesting.
There's a term for that, where people of lower IQ tend to underestimate other people's intelligence, and people with higher IQ tend to overestimate other people's intelligence.
Probably something to it.
Highly intelligent people also recognize that “unknown unknowns” exist.
Moderately intelligent people trust “the science” and think that we are only a few years away from understanding everything about our world. They are focused on “known unknowns”, for example fusion energy. Fusion energy production is a thing that we can’t get to work right now, but we think that we will figure it out soon. We know that we don’t fully understand it, however, we do “know” that fusion exists.
However, highly intelligent people understand that there are things that we are not even aware that we don’t know, “unknown unknowns”. Educated intelligent people understand the great number of scientific anomalies. Have you heard of the “corona heating anomaly”? Most people haven’t. For some reason, some locations in the Sun’s corona can be much much hotter than the surface of the sun. Given that solar fusion requires high pressure and that radiant heat usually becomes weaker we have no idea exactly why or how this energy is being produced. So for most people this is an “unknown unknown”.
Donald Rumsfeld was a bastard but he did give us that little nugget.