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H · 3w
There was a hypothesis that functional democracy is only potentially (but not guaranteed to be) possible in a nation with 90+ IQ, which is a very round number so probably a ballpark figure. That woul...
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And beyond intellectual smarts, their emotional smarts are also lacking. So the part of them that gets mad at whatever their beliefs are short circuits the part of them that can rationally think out the situation at hand. This is how politicians become so powerful, they just play on this truth.
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H · 3w
I don't know whether it's the emotion itself so much as self control. If someone throws a drink in your face, you get upset, embarrassed, angry, but you probably don't pick up a glass and try to smash it in someone's face. You can rationalise that even if you wanted to do that there would be conse...