Sharing the burden of my boredom

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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Sometimes I think people in general are dumb. I look at the average person's intellect, and I am forced to ackowledge the fact that due to the rules governing mathematical averages, about half of the human race is DUMBER than that average person.

You are thinking one dimensionally. Michael Jordan is a genius when it comes to manuevering the human body. Tiger Woods a genius when predicting trajectories. Fermi, who with Sklar, created the first nuclear reaction, would walk out of his house maybe 14 times because he kept forgetting why he was going out. Forest Gump - well is that (fictional character) a dumb person?

Unfortunately you are trying to think too much like a neo-classical economist - who kept saying all through the early 90s that computers were not resulting in increased productivity. The world is multi-dimensional. Use more than one metric to measure it. Its called perspective - which is also why there is no good and evil - just many different perspectives.