The average person is dumbfoundingly stupid

[Meeksauce]

The problem goes like this - Every person alive thinks they are above average in intelligence, but how would it be possible for the entire population to be above average? The problem is people don't question their own minds and they don't question their own perceived intelligence level. It just goes completely unchecked for 99.9% of the population. The average person is stuck in one paradigm and is hard locked into the idea that they are right about everything. That means you, reading this. You might think a spiritual forum like Leo's is a place where highly intelligent people would gather, but no, even here stupidity runs rampant. Not that there aren't diamonds in the rough, but for most people they just assume they're the diamond. It's a very tricky trap, but once you start to escape it you can't unsee that all of society is completely brainwashed. A lot of people will never become intelligent because they lack the bandwidth to perceive and understand intelligence. Again - Leo talks about this endlessly - but assuming "yeah I'm fine, it's just everyone else" IS the core problem. That's the very thing that needs to be examined.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 minute ago, Meeksauce said:

 That's the very thing that needs to be examined.

Even the original premise too - that also needs inspection.

Less it become a limiting belief.

[Meeksauce]

1 minute ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Even the original premise too - that also needs inspection.

Less it become a limiting belief.

So transcend everything, nothing can ever be right? ...ok

[integral]

23 minutes ago, Meeksauce said:

So transcend everything, nothing can ever be right? ...ok

Using someones position against itself to see it it holds up to its own logic is a old socrates method.

They use is to create endless speculation in philosophy so no position can ever be true. lol

It can have some value but its so overused that at this point it feels like gaslighting because the speculator does not work with any of the content, they dismiss it all by going down this path. 

A better way is to extract the true/partial truth from every perspective and expand/build from there.

But most intellectual, rational types, think that if they can debunked something, the whole thing has to be thrown out the window. Because they're in this bubble of true false logic. Instead of learning to integrate and synthesize things into a larger perspective. 

Edited 1 hour ago by integral

[Sugarcoat]

Stupid compared to what?

[Schizophonia]

Who is the common point between all these people.