Monday's Lecture

For whatever reason we are able to look at a new born baby and find its innocence and naiveness adorable. Nevertheless, we look at an innocent and naive adult and label him/her as ignorant and frown upon said type of person. Not to discredit anybody's intellect, but that majority of us that are functioning in today's society, if not all of us aren't all that enlightened and smart enough to be calling others ignorant. To a certain degree, though, the ignorance and the stupidity works. I think Dostoyevsky lightly touches on the subject when he remarks "perhaps the normal man should be stupid". Going with what Dostoyevsky expresses in NFTU and what I very much believe as well, the truly intelligent man in incapacitated. He/she is not able to choose anything because of the complete clarity with which he/she sees things. If one of these individual's was at the core of society, controlling everything we wouldn't be able to get to where we are today because no decisions would have been made. There is a certain kind of beauty, if you shall, to the way in which our world works. We need the less intelligent to control in order to progress our society.