Remember your childhood? When you were taught things such as: "This person is so intelligent. They're a scientist." "That person is so very smart. They've got a 200 IQ." "This person is so truly brilliant. They work at NASA." "Know what a sheer genius this person is? They've got 3 degrees and a PhD." "Yo, check out this wise old man with a 10,000 EQ."
MANY such so-called "wise", "intelligent", and "brilliant" minds (some, that folks such as you and I know personally) were COMPLETE and TOTAL FAILURES when push came to shove, and (nefarious AF!) agendas did get shoved into their very faces.
People seen as being complete and total winners at, ironically, logic, yeah those high IQ people and scientists and doctors and educationists and all, easily falling for lies left, right, and center. Buying every last bait placed before them hook, line, and sinker.
In my perspective and understanding, the only real sensible and logical indicator of true intelligence and true wisdom is NOT winning at some math test or knowing the whole world's history or cracking your local / international quiz competition --- it is instead winning at LIFE ITSELF.
It's knowing when you're being lied to.
It's knowing when you're being gas-lit.
It's knowing when you're being manipulated.
It's being able to USE logic to your very greatest advantage.
It's being able to figure your way out of tricky situations and life challenges.
It's being able to discern as to what's truly best for you and what isn't.
And above ALL things...
It's being able to live a truly JOYFUL, PASSIONATE, EXCITED, FUN, WONDERFUL, and DELIGHTFUL life DESPITE your CHALLENGES, and WITHOUT being a DICK to others and / or causing HARM or taking undue ADVANTAGE of others or MANIPULATING them or shit.
It's about one's ability to FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE between LIVING JOYFULLY THEMSELVES, and, at the very least, staying NEUTRAL, if not BRINGING OTHERS JOY, LOVE, and POSITIVITY TOO.
In my eye, the (so-called) "average" / "everyday" / "un-educated" Truckers and Blue Collar Workers and Autistic Anons who SAW THROUGH this BS and dared to TAKE A STAND against it ALL...and who may or may not have had "high IQs", "Ivy League degrees", "PhDs", "High Social Standings", "Commercial Successes", "Political Accolades", "Nobel Prizes", "Grammar Nazi Of The Year awards from Tumblr" or Blue Ticks (for sucking out people's blood?) ...are far, FAR MORE up there on the (real!) IQ, Intelligence, and Wisdom spectrums (and may I add even the Courage, Bravery, and having a fucking SPINE spectrums) than absolutely ANYONE ELSE!!
For to me, that's some REAL INTELLIGENCE. Real WISDOM. Real COURAGE. Real MERIT. Real BRAVADO.
Real BALLS.
Everything else is just horseshit.
Or should I say, horse paste?
Enjoy the SHOW.
My IQ is 150+ but I was well educated/indoctrinated since a young age. So only woke up in my forties & I am pissed at how much I was manipulated/gaslit when younger & how it effected my life & what I have (or don’t have) now.
So I totally agree with you. IQ & wisdom are drastically different things. IQ certainly does not necessarily lead to success.
Oh, I hear ya' sister!
My IQ is not quite so high, but I am quite edumacated. Fortunately, I had a brilliant mother who had to drop out of high school to feed herself. Otherwise, I think I would have been full on retard with my degrees.
Abstract thinking doesn't mean a damn thing when danger is near -- in all its forms.
Thank You for being vulnerable enough to openly and freely and fearlessly admitting to these truths. For, and make no mistake, it takes TREMENDOUS amounts of COURAGE to be able to even imagine doing what you just did here (anonymous forum or not); to put one's own (perceived) self image on the very line for the greater good. To have that honesty, integrity, and, above all things, that transparency, beginning with being transparent (about one's positives and negatives with ONE'S OWN SELF FIRST), and then, doing the same for all others (whilst also inspiring them to dare the same in turn), by being open and transparent towards others as well.
And that, my fren, Does INDEED COUNT as a 150+ IQ move in MY BOOK. Hell, add a few more zeros after it, coz true honour / courage is a BIG FUCKING DEAL in this world of ours.
Much love. ❤❤❤