I've thought about this a bit, and I have to wonder if our obsession with intelligence would be considered toxic and dangerous if intelligence was as easy to see as beauty is. I think the reason we consider obsessing over beauty to be dangerous is that it's very easy to see that our definitions of beauty are arbitrary and can't be objectively measured. Intelligence is supposed to be different, we have a test that spits out numbers for it after all, but what if we measured intelligence by how well one blends in? It is true that intelligent people are much less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and Autism, after all. I've also read plenty lists of how to tell that someone is intelligent, and all I could conclude from reading them was that everyone who wrote something for that list saw someone do something that made them think, "Wow, this person's smart!" How do we know that intelligence is objective? Could it be a social construct, like beauty is?
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