When Stupidity Calls Himself Intelligence
The premise from wich I'll start is this: "INTELLIGENCE IS NOT EQUAL TO MONEY".
Anyone not accepting this (because he considers that yes, intelligence IT IS equivalent to money) don't waste his time in going on. The ones that don't know what the word premise, or equivalent means can consult Aristotle's Logic, where it is spoken largerly about the theme, or in the Wikipedia, where it is spoken briefly (it's a pity Wikipedia, that great north american invention, didn't exist in Plato's or Aristotle's times. The "Metaphysics" would have been summarized in 100 or 150 lines, perhaps. And Plato's "Phaedro" in 2 or 3. Imagine all the time this two man would have gained for their's families, or for eating hamburguers)
If anyone don't know the meaning of intelligence, well, now we would be in deepest waters.
Then, accepting that intelligence would not be equivalent to money, we can infer that having intelligence would not be the same as having money. One can be rich for having born in a rich country, or simply for having born from a wealthy father and be a perfect asshole believing himself the smartest guy in the world. And not only that, believing himself he can teach other guys, even other countries, even the whole humanity how to be. Or how to "make" money, at least.
Oops! How near we are now to the reversing of the subject in the famous statement "stupids that don't know they're stupid". We're not sure of whom we are speaking about, now.
But let's continue.
So, if having money doesn't mean necessary you have the brains to create it, it's very probably that people who had brains had dedicated, his time and his skilfulness, all along history, to create other kind of things more important than money. In the Middle Ages the richest man of the community usually was a prestamist. Who never do nothing except work with other people's money. The constructors of cathedrals, the philosophers, the great discoverers usually were poor. Cristobal Colon was broken when he convinced Queen Isabel de Castilla to pawn all his jewells (to a prestamist, of course) to finance a trip nobody was very sure where.
Being in the possession of a lot of money, has been largerly prooved all along history, and by history itself, differs more and more from the concept of intelligence. From what intelligence really is. If not, in wich other way we can explain the Industrial Revolution? Was that a product of intelligence (in the greek, pure, clear meaning of the term: the highest faculty of the human being, the one that distinguish us from beasts) with his 12 year old kids dying in the coal mines of England, the cruel explotation of Africa, only for the purpose of providing slaves to the plantations of the Antillas but most of all of North America? If someone considers that intelligence, I'm sorry but there's some important part of his brain that doesn't work well. Though things didn't end there. They continue. Getting worse each time. In the name of capitalism and his wrongly called intelligence the Rich Guys, the Big Fishes of Society devastated the globe, ransacked the forests, polluted the air and the rivers, extinguished 80% of the animal species that existed until the last century. Only for money. So that the Megacorporatives that nowadays rule the world gets richer and richer.
O. K. That's power.
But don't tell me it's intelligence.
I rather called it stupidity. The same kind of stupidity that has people who considers the invasion of Irak an act of pure love for the humanity, not a megamillionar affair. Or that Cuba needed to be commercially punished along decades only because they have to be protected from comunism. Or that each South American president the White House didn't like they had the right to be moved or changed by the C. I. A. As it were a puppet. Usually it's the same kind of people that moves around the globe wherever the fluctuation of the dollar calls them. But moving like inside a bubble, a big bubble never mixing with the people of the country they are in, indiferent and waterproof to any other culture or any other way of living but his own. Though critizising, yes, everything and everybody because they believe they have the right to do so, because they are intelligent. They are The Smartest Guys in the world.
We Argentines know very well wich are our faults. Wich are not, very probably, the ones the Smartest Guys think they are. But we know when and from whom accept the critics. A critic must be humble, if it really want to be a critic. A critic with arrogance is not a critic, is a declaration of superiority. A critic that looks to submit for his own profit. That kind of critic is not accepted. And I particulary don't think would be accepted any place in the world. What is the value of a critic like that? Is there anything else you can do but laugh in the very face of the criticizer?
Since I entered this forum for the very first time, that was more or less two years ago, I've been reading predictions announcing the proximity or the Apocalypse, banks confiscating deposits, a dollar at 5, 6, or even 10 pesos, even a blood bath that would cover the Nation. Nothing of that has happened. Nothing of that has much probabilities to happen, at least in the near future. Perhaps the dollar will get a little higher. But not too higher. The situation of the country is not the same as in the 2001, internal and external, and not even then have been "a blod bath" anywhere. What could happen, anyway, would only be the side effect of what already happened in the north, where the real landslide occur. And, I'm affraid, will continue to "occur" for a long time. There, there were banks confiscating deposits, yes, people who lose all that they had. There, the State had to take up, not to save the poor but to save the rich ones, as usual. The Smart Guys. The BIg Fishes that knew how to rule the world. The intelligents.
So, my friends, next time you hear the famous statement "stupids that don't know they're stupid", ask yourselves of who are we really talking about?
That's an easy one for a change.
[QUOTE=Julio]The premise from wich I'll start is this: "INTELLIGENCE IS NOT EQUAL TO MONEY".
So, my friends, next time you hear the famous statement "stupids that don't know they're stupid", ask yourselves of who are we really talking about?[/QUOTE]The answer is those absolutely rusted-on Argentinos who simply are so "Bolshi" about the United States, that they have the temerity to write the sort of bunkem the rest of your post was about. Not looking at anyone in particular. The fact is it is only this week, Queen Kirchner made the decision to pinch the investments of the private superannuation funds. Still got to get it through Congress but it is a not a bad effort to divert 30 billion of someone else's money to your advantage without even saying please or to thank them for being f u c k e d up the arse by the powers that be. And then to proffer the reason that it is to protect the beneficiaries. Julio, just how gullible are you? These private funds became popular as a way to guarantee that their money wouldn't be stolen.
My opinion is that there will be pain in the USA over this collapse and possibly for 4 or 5 years, but without doubt the pain here will be greater and more devastating, more the pity. I was told nearly 20 years ago by an Argentinian that the philosophy and state of affairs in Argentina would never change. I disagreed at the time but I have come to the conclusion she was right.
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