are you prejudiced on the basis of innate intelligence?

i think it's okay, yeah.
are you the ben austin i know?

fuck yeah i am. what are you, fookin' stoopid or sum'thin?

i try not to be because it drives me crazy. people seem to judge other people's "innate intelligence" by whether they have similar interests or are snotty about the same things. also, everyone thinks they are in the top 10% intelligence-wise, so it seems to me everyone's wrong anyway.

don't people have to judge each other based on something? innate intelligence or intuition seems a more valid basis of judgement than what university someone attended. measurement of innate intelligence may be more a case of perspective, but that shouldn't matter much, because an individual sets the metric for intelligence and then makes the judgment. i'm thinking of the prejudice we're talking about here relating to social interactions rather than things like employment, licenses, tax breaks.

Some people are more interesting than others. You can credit this to their 'intelligence' if you like, but only if you understand that what makes them interesting has very little to do with what IQ tests test and much more to do with their ability to grasp what life provides and make something of it.

That makes sense.