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| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
So the entire Nazi regime was composed of sociopaths? All the officers, doctors, lawyers, intelligent men in society who approved of an ultra-right, anti-semetic, totalitarian regime were sociopaths? I think that they intelligence and political views are very independant, much like it's possible to have an intelligent racist or an intelligent sexist. Do you disagree? |
My conception of intelligence is fundamentally based on reason and rationality. When irrationality and paranoia enter the equation, intelligence, in its totalizing and encompassing form, is irrevocably skewed.
Hence, you have someone like the Unabomber, an extremely able and technologically apt individual, whose practical intelligence is rendered null by his paranoia. That's why I would consider terms like "nazi intelligentsia" or "fascist intellectual" oxymoronic; the capacity of seemingly intelligent people (professors, doctors) to reason has given way to irrational theories of communist conspiracy and anti-semitism, and other similar ideas.
A person can have an I.Q. of 200, but if their process of logic is based on functions which are objectively unreasonable, then practical intelligence goes out the window.
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