People with more refined sensibilities and higher intellectual capacity perceive themselves as such. And they want to be recognized as smart, refined people.
But if they live in a culture where there’s a gigantic taboo on recognizing that more refined sensibilities and higher IQs exist, what will they do? They’ll try to attract attention to their very exceptional refinement by being more outraged than anybody else by the idea that refinement and intellect exist.
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