And by the way, when I say that somebody is intelligent and / or talented, this has nothing whatsoever to do with whether I agree or disagree with them. It’s actually a mark of low IQ to equate intelligence with “something I’m capable of understanding”. Intelligence is in the sophistication of the discursive architecture. It’s in the speed of reacting to the holes in another person’s argument. It’s in the capacity to articulate one’s own original worldview. It’s simply having a faster processor than most. What software you download onto that fast processor is an entirely different matter.
Talent is a capacity to do something uniquely well. What you apply it to is a choice. But the existence of talent itself isn’t.
You can have both or either of these attributes and be very wrong on many issues. High-IQ people can choose to accumulate knowledge. They can also choose not to. They’ll still be high-IQ, irrespective of how they decide to apply their God-given gift.
When I say that Candace Owens is a moron (or plays one for clicks, who knows), it’s not because I agree or disagree with any of her points. It’s because the arguments she puts forward are those of a person with under-80 IQ. “Two people who confessed to listening to Chopin at different points in history must be related” is a clinical moron argument.
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