I am the most intelligent person who has ever lived. Lots of people want to legalise drugs. But I’m the only one who says ‘let’s legalise drugs because then we can all take them and drugs are awesome!’ Lots of people are in favour of legal prostitution but I’m the only one who wants to create a society where prostitution is the most highly valued profession so that all the beautiful people become prostitutes. Only I have had the vision to recognise sexual beauty as a precious resource that must be tapped into to achieve a high functioning society. I am the only one who has pointed out that all human beings are fundamentally equal in value and that all societies succeed or fail according to how much they recognise this.
Clearly I am the greatest genius who has ever lived for saying these things. But why has no one else said them before when it seems so obvious? Why does everyone else in the world apart from me insist on making their lives as miserable and difficult as possible? Why has no one like me ever appeared before? Why does my genius go unrecognised? What is wrong with you all?
Speaking as merely one of the lesser intelligent people of all time, I would think that the most intelligent person of all time wouldn’t have to ask us lessers what is wrong with us. I mean, why would a genius ask an idiot for clarity?
I doubt it. For one it’s not a title you can bestow on yourself and for two, what you have posted denotes only that you believe in a cause, and for three, I don’t think anyone cares anyway.
Still I’d say perhaps people like Newton, Gauss, Darwin, Laplace and many others were the most intelligent of all time, but then that would only be top 10.
Clearly some people are not subject to the same wants and or needs to make themselves happy as you are. Because most people aren’t that miserable.
Edit: To add if you are a genius, or the most intelligent person in the world, I would say the only way that is true is if others have bestowed that title on you, self bestowal means only one thing, you are perhaps arrogant. But then I don’t know you, perhaps on this forum at least you are agreed with, and seen to be a shining light and beacon of hope in an otherwise drab existence.
Because many things cannot be accomplished by just one person, no matter how much of a genius he is. Many things, like forming a philosophical movement for instance, require the assistance of others. When a genius asks others to help and explains to them what they need to do, but they fail to understand, he asks them why they fail to understand.
During the earlier stages of my life I always assumed human beings knew what they were doing and were generally sane, intelligent and morally virtuous. Now I know that this was an incorrect assumption. Human beings do not know what they are doing. They think they are enjoying their lives but actually they are inflecting endless pain and misery on themselves and everyone around them. They are not generally sane, intelligent or morally virtuous, they are generally insane, unintelligent and evil. They are dogmatic, jealous, wretched beings, constantly launching cruel attacks that inevitably end up circling around onto themselves. I have recognised this and I appear to be the only one. All the so called great philosophers and intellectuals have only a thin veneer of superiority to the moronic masses.
But I don’t know why this is. Why have I not been born into a utopia where everyone is like me? Where I can take as much drugs as I want within sensible regulations and where I can fulfill all my sexual desires and still be loved and accepted? Why is everyone else apart from me so stupid?
That’s because of the insanity and unintelligence.
None of them have spoken the truth on the issue that supersedes all others. Morality.
I think people are very skilled at convincing others and themselves that they are not miserable. My ideology seeks to fulfill the needs of all human beings. Generally human beings and all the societies in this world dedicate themselves to denying the existence of these needs.
Convince is the operative word, sure 50% of people are of average or below intelligence. But 50% are of average or higher intelligence, convince them, and you will have your prize. Fail to and I see no reason to think you are the next Jesus.
Perhaps that addresses your prior premise concerning being “the most intelligent”?
That too.
Of course, it can only be due to my own inferiority, but all those “why”'s seem obvious to me.
What doesn’t seem so obvious is why someone would think himself so intelligent if he didn’t know how to fix what he thought was “the problem”. Although I DO have my theory on that.
Asking the ignorant masses to answer his dilemma just seems… emm… well… not all that intelligent.
What else could they give but their already recognized “stupid” answers?
I agree a supposed supra genius, would be more adept at convincing others and solving problems with the world. Let’s take an example of someone who tried to: perhaps Nietzsche, was he ahead of his time, undoubtedly. Is he any more right now, no, he’s just as right, that herding is a good thing, only if it is not detrimental to the whole. Individuality is a higher prize than conformity.
Clearly though not everyone can be individuals or it would render the term meaningless.
I don’t want to be the next Jesus. Jesus said love your enemy and give to the poor. People who claim to love Jesus seem to be intent on bombing their enemy to pieces and grinding the poor into the dust. If people started following me the way they follow Jesus they’d fight an endless war on drugs and would despise prostitutes and sexually promiscuous females. They already do that. I want people to actually live according to my ideology not worship me and do the complete opposite to everything I say.
If 100% of the world was aware of me, or even just 1%, then I’d have a chance. Achieving fame is the obstacle.
That’s not a presumption. No one shares my ideology. I think my ideology is the correct one and all the differing ones are incorrect. So that makes me the most intelligent person out there.
You have put some thought into this even if i don’t agree with your ideals.
I admire that you aren’t afraid to say what you believe and can stick with it.
Intelligence is the capacity to develop awareness. If you are talking about having the capacity to develop awareness of the political ideology that will create the society with the most happiness and the least suffering then I am the most intelligent person IMO. There is a vast range of different kinds of intellects. An autistic person may lack the intelligence to dress himself but may have the intelligence to multiply huge numbers in his head in seconds.
Unintelligent people frequently lack the capacity to develop awareness of their own intelligence or lack of it.
I am equal to you because all human beings are fundamentally equal. A person with severe learning difficulties is not fundamentally inferior to a professor of quantum mechanics. Intelligence is just one superficial aspect of human beings that varies from one to the next in terms of superiority/inferiority. There are many others such as beauty, creativity, athleticism, but all human beings are fundamentally equal.
You already proved that you’re confused about what intrinsic value means: “conscious beings have intrinsic value, because a conscious being will value himself”.
There’s nothing confused about that. Inorganic things have no intrinsic value. Their value is generated by the economy. Only sentient beings have intrinsic value because they value themselves, and they have selves. So you’re the one who is confused.
It seems reasonable to infer from countless suicides and people with severe apathy or depression that not all sentient beings value themselves.
In my view, intrinsic value is special kind of worth that does not come from anyone’s conditional appraisal. How are you thinking about intrinsic value?
