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Originally Posted by Lune
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I'd argue it's the other way around, given that a certain huge element of the liberal electorate are, on average, lumped in the lower quartile (James Watson was excommunicated from science for touching that rail), in contrast to the ivory tower intellectuals. If anything it's a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
Meanwhile conservatives are mainly white, middle class, clustered around the mean with their elite being entrepreneurs and bean-counters who are self actualized enough to win the system but not enough to change the world or revolutionize the human condition. Your local rich businessman is probably conservative, but Einstein was a socialist.
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Changing the world generally happens by accident. Anyone purposefully trying to do so is a dangerous narcissist and lunatic. See: our current president
It’s one thing to wake up in the morning and say, “I should stop polluting.” It’s quite another to demand that others follow suit. I think you’re misinterpreting certain moral leanings for intellectual ones. Einstein, for instance, was human garbage, but undoubtedly intelligent