Schopenhauer: Why Society Hates Intelligence | Counsels & Maxims 34

Why the stupid are sociable & the wise are acerbic.
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Section 34 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Intelligence is Unpopular
3:27 Gracian Quote
4:16 From Intellect to Will
6:52 No Social Respect for Intellect
9:10 The Social Advantages of Being Stupid
10:40 Women and Beauty
11:52 The Most Schopenhauerian Footnote Ever
14:42 Why Pretty Girls Have No Girl Friends
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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
Thumbnail Image: 1815 Portrait, By Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl - Schopenhauer-Archiv der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Gracian Image: By anonymous - www.espaciopirineos.com/index...., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

[@polymathable]

Hello professor, thank you for your recitation of Section24 of Schopenhauer's councils and maxims. Plesant to the ears! I literally can't get enough of schopenhauer's perspectives and attitudes! 😂😂👌

[@ChristopherAnadale]

You are welcome! It has been an interesting book to read through in this way. Hope you like the rest just as well.

[@wachtraum9961]

"Deep-thinking people feel like comedians in their dealings with others, because they always have to feign a surface in order to be understood." -Friedrich Nietzsche

[@Xxxxxrrr6464]

Great one

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

Certainly Socrates was very much despised philosopher by the citizenry of Athens. He interrogated random people on the street making them feel stupid.

[@rovic2hacking505]

Hi proffessor, I am not a philosophy student but your lectures are great.

[@StevenSmith-mv4ge]

Society does dislike intelligence. Take it from me.

[@TheWayofFairness]

The degree of fairness is the determinant of actual superiority.

[@TheWayofFairness]

They wrongly assume that the interlocutor is as unfair as they are. Sometimes it is the more intelligent person that is the one that's unfair.

[@Xxxxxrrr6464]

Thanks

[@KO-fx8bp]

The Hive Mind doesn't like disruption!

[@TheGritherr]

glad to stumble upon your channel for some social analysis. I think it also depends on where along the social hierarchy that intelligence is coming from. anyway, intelligence without wisdom or conscience creates the most dangerous type. this Rawls is making a massive assumption and ignoring the possibility of reincarnation (obviously), that gifts reflect a soul's experience and not any kind of superiority. a middle school child doesn't hate a high school child for being more capable, or taller, they just accept that it is. It's guys like that who would like to lay claim to one's intelligence and wisdom, wisdom gained usually through an uncommonly difficult path, well it seems all intelligence bears it's burden. it's unfortunate this is the state of man, it should be obvious to anyone not completely blind that what they're settling for is, instead of developing their own abilities, doing honest work, they're settling to be more be destroying anyone superior they're able to. see, I believe in reincarnation, that very behavior reveals how much further, how much more suffering is ahead of them. the more enlightened and self aware one is, the less prone they would be to this mindset. forgive them father, they know not what they do.

[@LostSoulAscension]

The class of educated people have tended to always be the minority in every society throughout history. There's multiple levels as to why a conflict between the educated and non-educated may occur, and even upon a spectrum of GED and High school diploma to BA to MA to Doctorate levels. There can also be an egotism born out of the hardwork one put's into education. This is the separation between intellect and education. You can have a highly educated individual who's intellect is not as sharp, even if they are well read among the literature. They may be good bringers of knowledge, but not application and adaptation. Therefore, we find this battle of education and intellect having a lot less clarity in terms of who is who. You cannot always assume the intellect of your counterpart, it would be un-intellectual to do so. That may beg the question, how does this type of conscientiousness related to intelligence, and one's ability to relate with others despite a difference in intellect? Does the intellectual in this regard naturally harbor hatred from society? I might beg to differ, based on how we determine the factors of intellect among humans. Superiority based on intellect is not necessarily as apparent today as it may have once been.

[@LostSoulAscension]

One's inability to apply or adapt may even be an insulator of knowledge that allows a purer form of knowledge that isn't distorted by the opinions and influence of the world. There may be a degree of intellect on all sides in that respect. Based on the end mention there. How people perceive beauty as paired with intellect. Maybe it's a false precept that exists today, and so the conflict between intellectuals and society may have been between the beautiful and society.

[@trickywily2823]

Thank you ill continue to hide

[@rezafarhad9915]

Because reality and rational thinking sucks

[@BetwixtDandD]

You must be a very successful person. I mean, socially.

[@Verulam1626]

​@@BetwixtDandDif it's among sheep... Then probably.

[@michaelepp6212]

That's hilarious! Thanks

[@LostSoulAscension]

😂😂😂 this is real and honest.

[@dhk117rp]

While I get where he is coming from, Schopenhauer sounds like a insufferable person to be around from the information in this read. It's perfectly possible for a person to come across amiable and intelligent, he just put so much value in intelligence that he himself judged people by them, and became unlikeable. I went to a selective highschool where a very sizeable portion of the student body went to ivys, and more than half of the student body I would consider to be "smarter" than myself, but plenty of those kids were friendly and socialble. In fact, I've found them to be more likeable since they knew how to appeal to people. It's only the people that were sticks in the mud about their supposed intellectual supiority that were disliked. On the other hand, there were plenty of dumb people I disliked throughout my life, even more so than smart people I've met

[@BetwixtDandD]

It said that less intelligent people hate the more intelligent ones. So if you went to a selective highschool most people there were on similar level. Furthermore, it said that the more imtelligent ones are viewed as less likeable not that they are objectively less friendly.

[@PowerK1]

@@BetwixtDandDWho said?

[@matthagen5696]

Nonsense. In general, people are offended by arrogance and condescension not intelligence, especially when the arrogance and condescension are clothed in aloofness or affected sincerity. People respond to kindness and empathy regardless of intelligence. I think, as an adult, Schopenhauer justified his unwavering fear of commitment and intellectual arrogance by concluding that society just couldn't appreciate his superior intellect.

[@scienceuser99]

Not entirely true. I've seen extremely humble intellects get judged, ridiculed or disliked by religiously skewed individuals. They become the "outcasts of a particular social group real fast even if they remain mostly silent and non confrontational or arrogant in any manner. High intelligence can separate you from the herd real quick.

[@boethius1812]

Exactly. If you don't believe the stupid things most believe, you will be ostracized. The Covid Panic, multiculturalism and religion come to mind.

[@Xxxxxrrr6464]

Calling him arrogant proves his point in resentment others feel when their ego is “threatened “

[@Consciousness_of_Reality]

@@Xxxxxrrr6464 But he is actually arrogant, it is important to distinguish when something is true or not, instead of automatically assuming something, you investigate it.

[@Consciousness_of_Reality]

@@scienceuser99 It depends on the social group, and whether you can properly deal with them, I think you were refering to the woke cancel culture in the first paragraph, which it also happened to me twice.

[@ahmetdogan5685]

That's exactly why they crucified Jesus.

[@BABAA_YAGAA]

🙄

[@alexjames6747]

Who?

[@ahmetdogan5685]

@@alexjames6747 JESUS, your lord.

[@alexjames6747]

I have NO lords. I am my own lord.

[@ahmetdogan5685]

@@alexjames6747 you're just lard, admit it, and accept Jesus as your LORD.