Intelligence is on everyday level a matter of opinion. It’s stupid, it’s clever, it’s whatever. Do we have to go through this? I think we do. It is a tender spot and we like to see ourselves as smart to whom others can be compared to. Right? We toss the matter to each others’ faces as blame. It is the most common feature to discriminate, judge and bully for. How do we come to know intellect of others is kinky stuff, because we often do not. We just think we do. Mostly it feels like an easily accepted sadistic thinking model we repeat because it feels like a good win. We often like to make conclusion and analyse starting by the look of people what goes on in there. To me it seems the most important quality of people since it is so much praised, talked about and pointed out quality. Intelligence is ability to learn, be creative with things learned, invent new ways of doing, thinking and seeing, develop ideas, develop oneself, make progress and grow as a human being and let others grow as well. Do you think you are intelligent? What do you think intelligence is?

It is also a learned strategy of knowing, lying, scheming, plotting and trying to defeat. We become manipulated to know certain things since birth. Manipulated to live proper lives in set ways. Calculative and manipulative behavior is seen as intelligent as is cynicism, meanness and millions of ways to con. We become to know norms of society and what is stupid or clever and accepted ways to make it. We like to call our society intelligent as it is a highly evolved system. Logical and well-thought. Particular kind of accurate exact activity seems intelligent to us. We know where it is going. Someone makes a fortune out from scratch, dresses smartly, behaves correctly, builds a life of one’s own, knows what one wants can be intelligent. There is a lovely contradiction there as new and clever ideas may seem impossible and stupid, useless. Our society does not encourage to think in new ways, but it encourages to become well-off. For some that is the only way to be clever.  

Part of intelligence is the will to provide for weaker ones, share one’s own, have empathy, clean up a mess made, apologize, consider other beings worthy and equally important. It is a civilized look on the complex issue of intellect. It is all not problem solving and technological advancement. Personal intelligence is under suspicion all the time. It is part of the test of in which group one belongs to, is the person on the same level or not. This of course is not practice of civilized people. To be able to accept difference in others is part of the intellect I would call intellect worth having. Constant measuring and testing is neurotic and abusive pattern of those who want to be part of elite and wish society to have elite. In search for similarity, acceptance and admiration we want to do well and succeed. Testing each other on every day basis is a normal practice of finding suitable partners and allies, find out who get you and who don’t.   

Accuse and comment the lack of it is a weapon and meaning is to diminish and dominate. It is a very traditional way of facing someone with stereotyping with instant prejudiced mindset refusing to think otherwise. As embarrassing and shameful as it, stupidity, the whole thing of measuring is to put to shame and down below. Stupid is like dirt, an invisible creature without much value. Can it be talked about and should it be or are we set ready? We live in the world of smart things, although machines develop quicker than human intellect. Does possessing those smart electrical devises make us more clever and aware, knowledgeable, well-informed? I think it is the meaning of our current culture to create an illusion of our cleverness and so doing we are analyzing intellect wrong and shallow. We get stuck to wrong kind of idea of intellect so easily.