Researchers results imply that higher intelligence is correlated with left wing beliefs.

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47. It's pure Dunning Kruger

My second round of college has been interesting. You hope to reach that point where you're comfortable with, "I know what I know, but I am also very aware of what I do not know."

That attitude is just not as in evidence as you'd hope it'd be. For both students and professors. I read this book a really long time ago that went something along the lines of, "A man who has read a thousand books can be the most interesting companion, but a man who has read three books can be your most dangerous enemy."

People who learn a little bit, assume they know everything, and then it's just off to the races. Because they fuckin read a book. And I think it's why you see this kind of repetitive brainlessness in what are supposed to be educated environments. It's always the same words and phrases, arguments that feel plagiarized without any understanding of the foundations and origins of what they're discussing. They just don't have the knowledge base. It's all surface and sloganeering.

And it's so tired. Like if one more person says the word "decolonize" with no palpable knowledge of history, I'm going to find their parents and fine them for reproducing. They're the kind of people you talk to for ten seconds and realize, "Oh shit. They don't know anything."

And the thing is, it's not just students and/or protesters. Those you can kind of forgive. Limited knowledge and experience. I get it.

It's the adults that I cannot believe. I've had professors my age who are some of the dumbest people I have ever met. Just truly could not string together an argument if they tried. They're smart enough to get their degrees, but let's be honest. You do not have to be a towering intellect to get a degree. This shit is easy as sin. You just have to go through the motions and get that piece of paper. Then plop in with people who share your views, and you all promote each other into positions throughout the department.

I have been in classes over the past few years - electives in sociology, literature, and history I take for fun mainly - where the professors are so unaware of their lack of knowledge, so insistent on their ideologies, and so unwilling to engage in any debate or discussion, I have genuinely wondered if I should be reporting them somewhere. I shouldn't be in college classes looking at a professor and thinking, "Oh shit. I know more than them."

And I don't mean that in a cocky, puffed up overconfident student sort of way. I mean that as a fortysomething adult who's overeducated and realizes, no, a lot of these people do not know nearly as much as they ought to before they start teaching others.

STEM doesn't have this problem, though. All my STEM professors have been absolutely delightful. Because you actually kind of do have to know what you're talking about to advance there. It is unfortunately just not the case in the humanities these days. Just go through some published sociology papers some time. Within ten minutes, it becomes screamingly obvious how much nonsense they talk.