My IQ is roughly 150. This is decent, and I think I could probably get a 160 if I studied the test. There are methods for raising measured IQ.
But I have started my email campaign again to reform our financial system, and am likely dealing with economists with 170 and even 180 IQ’s. That field attracts really, really smart people.
My proposal is simple: we can eliminate unemployment and poverty, achieve a uniformly high standard of living, and do it working LESS than we are today. All this, and we make our system more just and equitable. The only people who lose are the predators, and no one, on the Right or the Left, favors the actual predators, at least rhetorically. In practice, of course, they take large sums of money from them in every election cycle.
All I do is apply dispassionate logic to commonly available facts. Money creation has no inherent economic use. It creates a claim on actual economic wealth. Ergo it is theft.
It can be reversed through the simple expedient of recognizing that money is not real, and that what has once been granted to the banks can be taken from them.
These are exquisitely simple ideas. I think one could and should argue that the entire profession of economics consists mainly in trying to iron out the troubles created by banks and government interference in the private sector. Businesspeople don’t need economists–or wouldn’t–in an actually intelligent, actually just financial order.
This is the problem I run into, though: most people fear being alone. They fear social isolation. They fear mockery and public shaming.
And this is how stupid shit happens over long periods of time. Nobody wants to be the first adopter. Nobody wants to go first. And ESPECIALLY no one wants to admit that they have missed fundamental and vastly important truths across the course of their lifetimes, despite huge educational achievements, very high measured intelligence, and prodigious work output.
My goal is to send out 500 emails this year. If I can get one person to rethink things, I will count myself very lucky. Vanity has few limits.
And here is the core point I wanted to make: what makes me different is not a uniquely high IQ or capacity for information processing. What makes me different is a willingness to tell the truth FIRST, and only secondarily figure out the social consequences of that belief. I am able and willing to tolerate solitude, vast solitude. I don’t like it, but it is essential to me being me, and I have no desire to be anyone else. I like who I am, even if it is often difficult.