Intellectual Stupidity

I accept that i do not know everything, that there are so many things out there that are still not clear to me, that the pursuit of knowledge is in fact never ending and that true intellectuals accept this.

I am however meeting a group of persons who constantly display what i have come to define as intellectual stupidity. This means that the persons are smart, are learned, are able to offer arguments in a smart and concise manner, yet for whatever reasons have convinced themselves that everyone else is wrong and they are the only ones who are right. They then further confirm their stupidity by being jack of all trades and masters of none. In their conversations, they continuously quote from various forums carelessly and without comprehension, as evidence of their knowledge in the matter, yet when you probe into their statements they then jump on to the next statement as further proof of your ignorance. You just cant pin them down, they wont let you. When you do grab their attention they are after all smart, i see them process what you say and then they immediately reject not on the fact that you have presented, but based on the fact that they reject the idea of you presenting a smarter argument than them.

Jesus said let those who have ears listen. I never understood what that meant until now. I understand that many times we hear the message but do we really listen to what is being said. Moving along this train of thought, my questions then morphs to ask, why is it we are so resistant to learning new things. When we were young, all we wanted was to learn, how does the grass grow, where did babies come from, why is the ocean blue. Soo many questions with so many different possible answers, there was no wrong answer, there were only possible answers.
Let us reclaim our ability to listen, to be like children, to learn, to laugh, to grow........


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