jay_walk

Got the SATs back. I am suprised at how for example Harvard's average is lower. (Maybe some were not native english speakers?)
And I am not even anything like a really rare genius. If I really represent the top percentile in terms of bubble-coloring skills, what does that say for the rest of humanity? I am losing faith in humanity...
Then again... We figured out how to put a person in a capsule and put them to the bottom of the ocean. We figured out how to put a person in a capsule and get them to space and back. We build huge amazing-looking and functional things (then again so do termites and bees). We uphold huge complicated mental constructs (i.e. all of reality) in our (collective ?) minds.
So are we lucky and stupid? Have good intuition? Have some prodigies? Have a better hive mind than individual minds?
I just don't know how everyone is so stupid when on all evidence they oughtn't be. Or maybe it's a collective arrogant delusion to view what we do as the pinnacle of intelligence and achievement. Probably.

The rules that people think are so important. Spelling correctly etc. is supposed to be a measure of intelligence. It's a measure of educatedness and conformity, that's what. Of being able to be part of the collective in one's proper place. Maybe it's all about the collective. This spelling right here, and a lot of our grammar, is the epitome of unthinking adherence to tradition and to social expectations. If I'd implement a spelling reform and everyone would learn how to write everything phonetically and more efficiently, that would not solve the problem either, because the problem is people don't understand what they're doing and why. Maybe we all don't have the brain-space to think of everything for ourselves.

Oh, that's how we do spaceflight and stuff. By cutting everything and reducing to the relevant and practical. Everything's encoded extremely compressedly and might never get decoded the same way again.
Humanity is awfully boring and there's hardly any need or opportunity for thinking.