High intelligence and authority aversion

1. If you happen to have an extremely high intellect, you likely aren’t keen on authority and hierarchy. You aren’t impressed by philosophical treaties or Dugin’s supposed brilliant philosophizing. The reason is obvious: you have unshakeable confidence in your own mind. You don’t need someone else coming up with ideas for you.

Your mind is powerful enough to keep you occupied without referencing others. It doesn’t mean you won’t listen to a plumber in an emergency. Part of extreme intelligence is the ability to lower yourself to the level of others and interact with them in a way they’ll understand. You use precise wording. People using a lot of words where a few suffice don’t impress you one bit. You also aren’t that keen on movements changing the world because you believe in the power of your own mind and getting stuff done on your own. You don’t want your ideas polluted, tainted. Then again, you know it’s vital to have a platform to share your ideas. It’s cool, as long as you don’t need to answer the same question five hundred times.

Yes, you will find famous geniuses (how many are actually geniuses, or is this just PR? Who knows) but you’ll also find geniuses who work as cleaners in corporate buildings and are way smarter than the CEO but, for some strange reason, they are stuck sweeping floors. Not every genius has a stellar academic record. Many are all over the place and their resumes read like a bizarre novel. IQ tests could be an indication but – in my opinion – you can’t quantify extreme intelligence. It’s operating on a level most people can’t grasp which is why geniuses are portrayed so clumsily in the media. Genius defies defining because, well, that’s genius for you.

Some want to believe their children are indigos – old souls. Maybe. Or, maybe, the kid is just a spoiled brat. Who knows.

Propaganda doesn’t impress you and if you were given a propaganda platform, or were responsible for a propaganda program, you’d be a master brainwasher better than all the propagandists combined. At the same time, you sometimes forget that even powerful minds fall prey to propaganda, even comical and cartoonish propaganda.

You sometimes forget not everyone is like you. When you do come across an impressive intellect, not some YouTube personality people worship which to you is an indicator to stay away, you’re willing, even eager, to forget about rebellion and turn into an obedient follower. Yes, geniuses are followers, provided they know their leader is one of them.

Genius doesn’t respond to authority, or pretends to respond to get by in life, that isn’t as bright as he or she is. If a genius comes across another genius, the opposite can happen and authority is going to be respected, even revered. As with everything, genius is a bundle of contradictions. He hates authority, yet also loves it and embraces it. Depends on the context.

Some wanted to artificially create geniuses – a dangerous idea. Some want their genius children to be like monkeys in a zoo. Terrible.

Just as psychopaths can usually spot one another, so can extremely intelligent people. Indeed, genius and psychopathy has some stuff in common. You can have a physicist, a writer, a homeless guy, a mafia boss and a religious scholar, completely different walks of life from billionaire to a nobody, yet they all are going to have a feeling that a kindred spirit is standing before them. The soul with a spark of genius. Some say it’s in the eyes. Gifted children are unlikely to respect a teacher they see as dumber than them – and they’ll know if the teacher is ”one of them” in less than a minute. Literally. Some will know it in seconds. Acute intellects just know. You could even call it a sixth sense.