Quote (thesnipa @ Apr 19 2022 12:00pm)
ben graduated highschool at 16, skipped 2 grades, graduated summa cum laude from UCLA at 20, and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law.
why people are invested in saying he isn't smart is beyond me. he's smarter than anyone in PARD i'd wager, since our resident ivy leaguer Jeb left.
One thing I learned after getting my masters degree is that degrees don't require a lot of brains, they require a lot of work. Many people here think I'm a complete idiot but I have bachelors and masters and I graduated Summa Cum Laude the only non-A's I received were in Introduction to Logic and Predicate Calculus, to satisfy a philosophy minor. If I can do it, anyone can.
I wish I had knew I was as smart or smarter than half the MDs and JDs I work with before I went to college because I might have had the confidence to study those things immediately. I didn't even plan on getting my masters. I didn't even consider college until one of my friends who is way dumber than I am got a bachelors degree. I was helping him with his homework despite me getting kicked out of high school and him not missing any classes and graduating on time.
I would like to shared classes with Ben during our Organic Chemistry classes, that is where you see who is really smart lol. But it doesn't matter how smart you are, it matters how you use it, and Ben built himself quite a money making machine with it. I only use my degrees to directly help people, which is valued much less in society than entertainment.
The smartest guy I've ever worked with was a psychiatrist who was 36 years old and had been a medical director somewhere already. He told me he wished he was smarter so he couldn't have been a surgeon and not have to talk to people so much lol. When I asked what his bachelors was in he answered "biology, but if you know someone who wants to be a doctor tell them not to, I hate this" lol.
Going to Ivy League doesn't mean you're smart, it means you have an alumni in your family or won a lottery of some sort.
I didn't know those facts about Ben, and I respect his credentials, I wish I had the opportunity to go to a school like that, but he punches down all the time and he doesn't punch up, which isn't something I respect over all as someone who tries to only punch up. He is one of the most privileged people that society has ever produced and he denies that privilege exists as he uses his oversized platform to attack already marginalized people. He is manipulative as hell in this process and isn't interested in actually discussing an issue in the same way that Joe Rogan will discuss an issue, who I actually respect much much more as an intellectual, despite the lack of credentialing.
He also shows that you can be very very book smart and lack common sense and insight as a person. For example he is a person who was raised by wealthy parents who worked in Hollywood and was able to attend an Ivy League school learned somehow that privilege doesn't exist and accepted it uncritically. You can't be extremely intelligent and not make this connection.
This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 20 2022 06:24am