From the archives. Jesus what a grim fucking comic, great contrast between the subject and the cutesy style, which I guess is what made me go “heh, holy shit”

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
      345·
      10 months ago

      It speaks to everyone. “I’m messed up because I’m smarter than other people” is a seductive fantasy.

      • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        I clicked into the article wondering how they measured intelligence, and they polled people from Mensa. What a fucking joke.

        • shneancy@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          lmao right? Mensa members are allegedly smart and yet they pay money to be in the special club of the smartest of everyone look at me

              • MrFunnyMoustache
                32·
                10 months ago

                They care more about appearing smart to others to feel better about themselves, seems like low wisdom to me. High wisdom is realising that all that posturing makes no sense.

                The way I see it, they are no different from people who spend money to show off and appear even richer than they actually are; posting pictures of themselves in fancy card, private jets, and other things like that. There are many deca-millionaires and billionaires who buy bigger and bigger yachts and jets for that posturing, even modifying their yacht to be longer so it will be registered as a longer yacht even though it’s the same useable space…

                IQ test isn’t nearly as valuable as they make it to be in reality, and I guarantee that many of that club’s members prepared and trained specifically for that test, which makes them appear smarter than they actually are to the people who care about IQ scores. Moreover, this gives them the incentive to believe that IQ scores matter a lot more, because it inflates their self-worth.

                • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                  33·
                  10 months ago

                  Nah. You automatically made huge assumptions about the people who joined that group with no understanding of who they are or what they actually stand for because you never researched it or even cared to Google it. And you did that because you, as an anti-intellectual, are one of those people who talk shit about people more intelligent than you to make yourself sound smart.

                  Did you know 12% of them are Zoomers, for instance? As in teens? Did you even consider some of them would be kids or teens or did that just slip your mind in the middle of you taking out your anger, jealousy and inadequacies on them?

                  But as usual, as some dumbass anti-intellectualist bigot, you project your own flaws and failings onto a group you want to marginalize to make yourself feel better.

                  Shut the fuck up and go crack open a book, you worthless, arrogant, vapid, vicious little clod.

                • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  And you’re so much better than them because you’re not 🤷

                  It couldn’t possibly be you’re the one actually acting that way

                  You’re the stupid, oversensitive failure with the inferiority complex taking out your emotions on innocent people who have literally done nothing to you but of course you’re the victim here and not them

                  • lad@programming.dev
                    11·
                    10 months ago

                    I don’t know much about the club and was not expressing my opinion on them (because I have none). I just guessed what whas is the reason someone picked on them

      • Carl@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        10 months ago

        Well, I know I am far smarter than a few family members. My brother told me he would never get vaccinated for covid, because it has cancer in it, which is not true.

        Overall I would say I am average, or slightly above average iq. Not saying I am a genius.