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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1200396" data-attributes="member: 12744">Well, actually, for all my griping I do agree with you.  Most of the people I know personally, work with, or pal around with are reasonably intelligent folks, quite a few of which I consider to be waaaaay more intelligent/well read/perceptive than myself.  However, I find that I dont hang around with total morons either because I dont have the patience for it. And people not paying much attention to anything other than the stale microcosm that exists only in their head is not new either, various writers and historians have b*tched about it for as far back as I've read.  However, that doesnt make it any less sad ;^)The saddest thing is that I am often called 'smart' by a lot of people I know, to my annoyance, particularly by family members (my wife's and mine) and I've never considered myself to be of anything greater than above-average intelligence.  And average human intelligence is not a very high bar to aspire to ;^).  Most of the time someone calls me 'smart' I just say "No, I'm just well-read.  'Smart' implies talent; most knowledge I have I'd had to hammer in with a sledge and tape there with duct tape".Of course just calling all of us 'wrong' and dismissing the whole thread, you are exhibiting the kind of apathy towards *reading* the actual points that people made in between their opinions, which means that, in my opinion, you missed the whole point of most of the posters because you didnt really read what they had to say; you just glossed it over for the sound bites and went with that impression  ;^)</blockquote>

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