From the archives. Jesus what a grim fucking comic, great contrast between the subject and the cutesy style, which I guess is what made me go “heh, holy shit”

    • Carl
      191·
      10 months ago

      This article speaks to me.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        335·
        10 months ago

        It speaks to everyone. “I’m messed up because I’m smarter than other people” is a seductive fantasy.

        • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          I clicked into the article wondering how they measured intelligence, and they polled people from Mensa. What a fucking joke.

          • shneancy@lemmy.world
            6·
            10 months ago

            lmao right? Mensa members are allegedly smart and yet they pay money to be in the special club of the smartest of everyone look at me

                • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
                  32·
                  10 months ago

                  They care more about appearing smart to others to feel better about themselves, seems like low wisdom to me. High wisdom is realising that all that posturing makes no sense.

                  The way I see it, they are no different from people who spend money to show off and appear even richer than they actually are; posting pictures of themselves in fancy card, private jets, and other things like that. There are many deca-millionaires and billionaires who buy bigger and bigger yachts and jets for that posturing, even modifying their yacht to be longer so it will be registered as a longer yacht even though it’s the same useable space…

                  IQ test isn’t nearly as valuable as they make it to be in reality, and I guarantee that many of that club’s members prepared and trained specifically for that test, which makes them appear smarter than they actually are to the people who care about IQ scores. Moreover, this gives them the incentive to believe that IQ scores matter a lot more, because it inflates their self-worth.

        • Carl
          1·
          10 months ago

          Well, I know I am far smarter than a few family members. My brother told me he would never get vaccinated for covid, because it has cancer in it, which is not true.

          Overall I would say I am average, or slightly above average iq. Not saying I am a genius.

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
      82·
      10 months ago

      very depressed and still get the best grades in my class at “profession school”, can confirm.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzOP
      81·
      10 months ago

      I have absolutely no idea what a “chutes day” is 😅 but I’m a dirty foreigner with a native language that’s not even in the same family as English, please have mercy

  • netwren@lemmy.world
    282·
    10 months ago

    So to any young kids who get into this “I am intelligent therefore depressed.”

    I’ve been there and what I’ve found is that if you are like how I was. I falsely correlated analysis of the universe and the discovery of it’s harshness with how I was feeling and probably erroneously ignored my bias (because I was depressed) to focus on negative realizations.

    It was my caustic family environment, my lack of individual freedom, poor sleep, poor diet that was making me miserable.

    If you’re feeling this way you need to look into Mindfulness and why existence even in its brutally bleak appearance can be an enjoyable quiet morning listening to crickets as you wake up, or being aware of noisy air vent that sounds interesting, or even the curiosities of your own wandering mind.

    Our experience of existence is relative to our framing. Emotional intelligence is learning to side step the current and enjoy observing the river.

  • EvilLootbox@lemmy.world
    24·
    10 months ago

    Futurama taught me you should only give the monkey moderate intelligent serum if you want it to be happy