[FRIAM] *Bah!* - Trump - Become smarter in minutes

[Steven A Smith]

Marcus -
> Wisdom isn’t spontaneously created by intelligence, but it accrues 
> through experience (both individual and cultural).  With low 
> intelligence, the accrual process slows.   The behaviors can be 
> mimicked, and often are by political agents.
In general I agree with/believe you.   I reserve, however, the 
possibility that there are many orders or levels of wisdom such as that 
accrued (very slowly) through biological evolution.  A "species" might 
be said to have a certain wisdom, and just so with a culture, and 
ultimately an individual or one aspect of an individual's psyche 
perhaps?   I have met people (and apprehended cultures) which appear to 
have one mode of wisdom while being virtually devoid of wisdom in 
another mode.   Not to be overly judgemental, but many primitive or at 
least "old" subcultures seem to have this duality...

I am probably reporting from the "other side" (wrong side) of the hill 
(as in "over the hill") and erring on conservative thoughtfulness in the 
face of brash full-speed-ahead.   I"m not sure my "new way" is better 
than the "old way", but it IS different?

<rant> As an aside, it is a very fascinating study that so many people 
can hear the likes of Trump belligerently bellowing: "I have a very good 
brain" and think he is correct.  I think you already referenced his 4th 
grade vocabulary/speech patterns, so sometimes all I can wonder is if 
*most* people who think he IS particularly intelligent believe it 
because *their* language skills are even more stunted than his?  Or 
perhaps they give him a pass on his articulateness and focus on his 
performance as a businessman? Quantitatively he may (or may not) have 
done well on that count, most likely his biggest achievement was to NOT 
have lost the family fortune he was bequeathed?       Others seem to 
like him because he seems so "down to earth and folksy"... he "tells it 
like it is", but that falls down so badly for me when he "tells it like 
he imagines it in the moment" and then says something entirely different 
the next time with no retraction or apology for the first gaffe.   I 
think this is classic Narcissistic personality disorder?   The "you" of 
the immediate moment is always right, everyone else is wrong unless they 
agree with you in detail, including some former self who may have said 
the exact opposite ten minutes before? </rant>

- Steve
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