Irony is, those in need of deprogramming the most are the ones into programming. How is it even possible that people that are supposed to be so intelligent/logical/rational are actually this gullible to state’s propaganda that they believe it without a shred of doubt.
I already made a comment, but I just remembered I made a post about this awhile ago.
Partly inflated egos, partly being so well paid by the spoils looted from the imperial periphery that even if they do realize it’s bullshit that they’ll keep up the anticommunism to defend their treats.
Knowing how to solve problems doesn’t make you a genius in politics.
See Von Neumann for example, he was a genius in math (this means he was very good in problem solving) but a total idiot in politics.
I know about Van Neumann architecture, but I’m unaware of his politics. Was he the early 20th century equivalent to a tech bro?
He was literally an Anti-Communist.
Von Neumann entered government service primarily because he felt that, if freedom and civilization were to survive, it would have to be because the United States would triumph over totalitarianism from Nazism, Fascism and Soviet Communism.[77] During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as “violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm”. He was quoted in 1950 remarking, “If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o’clock, I say why not one o’clock?”[391][392]
Damn. At least Turing was a bicon.
Intelligence and political awareness aren’t correlated. Confrontation with politics in everyday life and political awareness are.
Maybe a hot take, but we really shouldn’t be glorifying intelligence the way we do, it has a lot of resemblance to fascist ideology.
The spread in intelligence really isn’t that wide. People without clinical impairments or other disorders can specialize in practically whatever field they like. It’s primarily just a function of wealth and mental health. What distinguishes ‘intelligent’ people’ from the less intelligent is that, for whatever reason, they have an edge in learning speed. That’s it. They’re not transcendental beings who somehow have more access to ‘the truth’ of the universe.
Of course, on the very rare occasion, there are people who excel at very specific tasks but even then that says nothing about their ability to do anything else.
I think intelligence is a completely bullshit concept. There is no such thing as being smarter than someone else.
take it from a programmer, folks: knowing how to make computer do magic doesnt equate to general intelligence or automatically make one better at unrelated things like politics. computer shit is a skill like any other that just happens to have a (false) connotation of “high intelligence” whatever that means.
sorry fellow nerds, you aint special. read lenin.
Also a code monkey. Programming requires very little intelligence (not that intellugence is even real).
