Here is another witticism that contains great truth. The whole purpose of making people stupid, and keeping them that way, is because they will be resistant to change and incapable of responding to attempts to better inform them and raise them up in their thinking. If the mind is limited in what it can understand and what it can contain within memory, and lacks experience in exercising judgment and applying refinements that lead normally to better and better discernment for detecting degrees of difference and their meaning, it is a fool's errand to trust someone who is ill-equipped to understand an issue, to put them in charge of solving the problem and taking care of business, so to speak.
So this quote speaks to the problem of becoming entangled with people who are impaired in their capability and will be forced, by their lack of knowledge, to work with what they have. So what they offer will be inadequate to begin with, but then will likely be repeated again and again, and offered over and over again. Not only is it the best they can do, it is all they can think of, and might seem quite normal and adequate to the task from their perspective. So in an argument between someone highly intelligent and those much less so, there indeed is no way to win because the higher intelligence will not be recognized or credited, nor even understood most of the time and, in effect, is wasted motion that will exhaust anyone attempting to get more out of the situation. It becomes akin to beating a dead horse when people lack wherewithal to do something they are not capable of. This certainly speaks to the seriousness of the situation and the size of the problem when significant portions of society are frankly limited in their capabilities—it does not auger well for continued human progress with any kind of efficiency.
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