interesting, i have a theory that this stems not from how intelligent someone is but from how intelligent they are relatively to the environment they grow up in within their social development and identity-defining periods (teenhood):
- at the 'lowest level' we hve those who are insecure about their intelligence, many will seek other points of esteem and define their intelligent as average. in fact so many that the mathemtical definition of average is getting screwed over:
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDOHPssLrQ"]like this but with I-penis[/YOUTUBE]
- then you have people intelligent enough relatively to their envrionment to gain a competitve edge from it, and yet feel jelous of those they feel are more intelligent then themselves, because they will develop a view of intelligent as a competition, but can mature to view other's intelligence as a cooperative oppertunity. they are the most likely to view intelligence in terms of cultural memes, adopting it's apearance rather then try to challange themselves in mental processing.
- people intelligent enough relatively to their own enivornment to have a lot of thoughts that many others around them can't seem to relate too - they will often feel lonely, isolated, and forn an elitistic view of their own intelligence.
- people intelligent enough relatively to their own environment to not only think thoughts others have a hard time relating too but actually figure out ways to express those thoughts in a way that others will find a way to relate too, and have learned the humility that others - no matter how seemingly intelligent or unintelligent they may be - can have something insightful to say, can inspire them or give them the mental connection they have being missing.
- the people who gave those in the 'level below' that humility... for some reason 80% of them work in the bars, waitressing or other service jobs: