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Welcome to Citizen.

Today's show, we're going to discuss why do smart people believe dumb shit?

It's a good question.

I mean, what we know about this is that,

contrary to what you may think or maybe even perhaps ironically,

people who are smarter have a like a higher IQ are quite a bit more

susceptible to believe in dumb things, to getting trapped by cults, all of, pretty much everything

you can think of that, you know, a person of reasonable or above intelligence can get

trapped into belief-wise. People who are higher on the IQ scale are a little bit more susceptible

to that statistically than people who are just of average of intelligence, interestingly enough.

And we're going to talk about some of that today. And what it means for us,

what it means for us is thinkers, how we can be resistant to it, how we can spot it in others

and determine whether or not it's somebody actually worth talking to or if that person

should just be ignored and move on to the next person. Remember that you only

have so much energy in time and you got to triage that stuff. I mean, we're in a, as every generation

is, I don't want to heighten the alarm or anything, but every generation is to some degree

and under existential threat. Reagan said it pretty succinctly when he said,

we're only ever one generation away from the failure of liberty.

So it's something that we should all be concerned with.

And the more concerned we are,

the less likely any of that dumb shit is to happen.

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