"Bertrand Russell may have been on to something: "the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand, a true genius of his time. He said in one sentence what took me 2 paragraphs in an earlier post.
seems like most great thoughts have been said before sounds a lot like Yeats from "the second coming". if not the best poem ever written, it's among them. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at laSt, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I'm not im Mensa but the opposite to the high intellect Mensa group is the low intellect group called Denser.