If ignorance is bliss, then that means (generally speaking) the lower a person’s IQ, the happier s/he is. Does this mean the higher someone’s IQ is (generally speaking), the greater the risk for being disliked? Could be. That would explain many things.
For example, it would explain why those in a lower range of intelligence are unable to recognize someone in a higher range. But the higher the range that one is in, the more it becomes evident how those with less awareness, have less awareness of what they’re missing. Like it’s said, “It takes one to know one.”
I find it quite interesting that most often the most brilliant people¹ in time have usually been the least popular while they were living. Inventions from great ideas might be celebrated and maybe even eventually its inventor, but while the truly gifted live? Generally speaking, not really (especially if they lived with meager resources, which they usually did because most likely money wasn’t where their mind was at). People respect money because that’s what most people love; and those who do that, they’re the ones who think people are to be used (i.e., 99.9% of those without a “paycheck job” like the rest of the society are looked down upon by those who are employed).
It’s a fact that people will not elect a leader who has an IQ range that’s 30 points above the average. The most powerful intellects are people that the average person has never heard about, nor ever will. But, from what I observe, most people don’t even care and/or want to think about such things.
Even as I type this, I know there will be plenty of readers disagreeing. I’m even sure I can’t explain myself to them. I don’t want to provoke debate. I want to spark more thought and awareness into the world, but maybe that’s an impossible dream of mine? There is such a thing as a negative prejudice against highly intelligent people, but those who exhibit it can’t admit it because . . . well, they’re just not equipped to do so. This is not an arrogant statement. It is an informative one.
¹Unfortunately people look to education as a measure of intelligence. That’s not really a reliable measure because of too many other factors involved. Being a walking encyclopedia is like a computer that’s loaded with mega amounts of data. You can “google” a person’s mind and maybe get impressed, but what good is that if someone’s mental operating system is poor at generating new data from within that hasn’t already been entered in from an external source?!
