Inevitable Period of Evil Ascendant

[cronus]

Seems smart people make/do things ordinary people want and yet not every smart person, or community, is well placed for this activity. Over time a ordered set of smart people making stuff and doing stuff popular with all emerges - and this leaves some very smart people on the periphery and the outsider who is very smart and yet cannot be 'in' will grow bored with the status quo and attempt its overthrow. A civilization that requires less very very smart folks, because of computing power say, will incur not only boredom but active attempts at overthrow since a very very smart type of person will have the true edge on the chaotic aftermath. Things like 9/11 and the looming dollar crash might best be explained by this - maybe? and given the over reliance on technology to achieve intellectual tasks more and more very very smarts and a few very smarts and even a few simply smarts will form co-coalitions to overthrow the ant-hill society we live in today.

Bailouts and too big to fails make for too much structure. Something must be done.

Negative individuals abound in every high IQ society.

[Rum]

Smart people like you, you mean?

[cronus]

Smart people like you, you mean?

No, I'm not there yet. You on the other hand have great potential.

I was reading this and thinking about the geeks of cyberspace in general today....less and less making it big, more and big ideas all the time though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25576645

[Clinton Huxley]

I'm going to ask a very very smart person to translate the op into English....

[cronus]

I'm going to ask a very very smart person to translate the op into English....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25617844

Your country requires your wallet, my good sir.

[rainbow]

Seems smart people make/do things ordinary people want and yet not every smart person, or community, is well placed for this activity. Over time a ordered set of smart people making stuff and doing stuff popular with all emerges - and this leaves some very smart people on the periphery and the outsider who is very smart and yet cannot be 'in' will grow bored with the status quo and attempt its overthrow. A civilization that requires less very very smart folks, because of computing power say, will incur not only boredom but active attempts at overthrow since a very very smart type of person will have the true edge on the chaotic aftermath. Things like 9/11 and the looming dollar crash might best be explained by this - maybe? and given the over reliance on technology to achieve intellectual tasks more and more very very smarts and a few very smarts and even a few simply smarts will form co-coalitions to overthrow the ant-hill society we live in today.

Bailouts and too big to fails make for too much structure. Something must be done.

Negative individuals abound in every high IQ society.

Stupidity will allways trump evil.

[pErvinalia]

Inevitable period of me not understanding what Scrumple is going on about...

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

I'm going to ask a very very smart person to translate the op into English....

"Evil genius is the future...The devil makes work for idle hands."

[PsychoSerenity]

Smart people have far more to do in a high-tech society. It's the not-so-smart people who've inherited daddy's wealth and connections but who can achieve nothing more than becoming a politician, that you've got to worry about.

[cronus]

Smart people have far more to do in a high-tech society. It's the not-so-smart people who've inherited daddy's wealth and connections but who can achieve nothing more than becoming a politician, that you've got to worry about.

I'd say everyone with a IQ below 155 is happy with the push button society one way or another. The trouble begins with those who have a IQ of 156 and throw stones through real windows.

[JimC]

I always wanted to be an evil genius, but deep down, I'm simply too nice...