Trump's Intellect

Not the quite the NonComPoop he wants you to think.

Oh don’t get me started on IQ. I was diagnosed with a well above average one at the age of ten. It was based on my ability to solve puzzles quickly.

Am I smarter than he is? It’s possible that he could not do as well as I did on the puzzle test. Is he a complete moron? Absolutely not. I am a nerd. My father was a nerd. He spent the last twenty years of his career building piping systems at nuclear power plants. I would become a master tool and die maker. If I were to teach that beast to run a lathe he’d probably lose a finger or an eye.

Trump was raised with a golden spoon up his ass in America’s largest city to do business. Shady and predatory business at that. His intelligence is very self-centered. His thought processes focus on how he can get over on others. At some point he figured out how to create a cult like character on mass media.

I have seen claims on social media of trump having an IQ of 73.

That’s ridiculous

Intellect is complicated. It cannot be described as a single trait that can be measured along a Bell Curve. The notion is that there are really smart and really dumb people at the extremes. Nearly everyone else is near the middle. IQ implies such a simple model.

I have come to realize that it is more of a mosaic. I am mechanically inclined, and nearsighted. I am able to handcraft small objects in fine detail, perhaps better than Bill Gates can. No one, including me, will call Bill Gates a dummy.

The number I was assigned as a kid is 140. Would gates score as well on the puzzle test as I did? I believe he is far more likely than trump to score as high, or higher, than I did.

Something that gates and trump have in common is that both are in the Epstein Pedo Files.

My intellect is strongly influenced by a high mechanical aptitude. It is somewhat hampered by an attention deficit that was part of the diagnosis. That’s why I said above that I was diagnosed as smart.

Gates and trump, and to be honest, a majority of men, have an intellect influenced by sex drive. That is certainly true of women too. Not being one I cannot speak to the details.

In men, it gets Darwinian.

I must come out now and admit that I am not spiritual, except in the loosest possible definition. I have read, and fairly well understood, On the Origin of Species. We are animals. Reading it was made easier by having studied physical science.

I identify as Humanist. That’s someone who agrees with the christian notions of peace, humility, and mercy, while rejecting the supernatural claims.

Darwin tells of the effects of sex on selection. Peacocks developed brilliant plumage to attract mates. Hunting probably contributed to the development of human language. Sexual selection probably led to poetry and song. It also produced coercion and deceit.

Modern human sexuality involves poetry, song, and a bit of deceit. There are Alpha Males. They are trump and gates.

There are lesser Alpha males. Epstein was in the upper tiers of that culture. It happens at the local level. The lower you are in the pecking order, which has gone global, the more likely it is that your proclivities will be seen as criminal.

There is power in the world that is being shielded by power.

Religion plays a part. Kings are often crowned in churches. Religion has been cited down the ages as justification for Ruler’s harems. Smith and Young, Muhammad, Abraham. The Bull wildebeest in the Serengeti.

I am certain that deceit, and sex, were major drivers behind the growth of religion. I do not believe that most of history’s greatest religious leaders believed the magical part themselves. Some appear to have been gifted in sleight of hand, and performed “miracles.”

Trump has started wrapping himself in flags and thumping bibles. He is seizing control of the information and sources of data. It is now being twisted to show his “miraculous” performance in office.

Then he turns around and sells those bibles to suckers for more than they are worth so they can have the privilege of thumping one themselves. They may even read them.

Nah.

So, here we are at the sheep.

To many, whose gifts do not include critical reasoning, trump has created the image of a strongman. A Mango Mussolini. No, he doesn’t have a low IQ, though he may not do as well as I did on the puzzle test.

I do not think Reagan could do as well as I did on the puzzle test. He could, however, “sell shoes to a snake.”

In terms of Trump’s infamous comments about crime being in the genes of non-whites, this comes from a doctrine called Social Darwinism by some. It falsely contends that the ability of Europeans to colonize the Americas, Africa, and parts of Asia was evidence of racial superiority. This is based on misunderstanding the context of “survival of the fittest.”

Darwin described genetics and biological evolution in great detail. Culture evolves too, but not in the same way biology does. It evolves much faster for one thing. Look at music over the last five hundred years.

When our ancestors first left Africa they already possessed complex language and stone tool making. Poetry and song are common to all of the different cultures around the globe. Biologically we have evolved very little since long before humanity emerged from Africa.

My interpretation of what Darwin says about it is that despite some obvious physical variation in appearance we are all far more alike than we are different.

Intelligence is not a spectrum. For it to be that we would have to be like drones in a dystopian science fiction tale. We are all different. Darwin emphasizes the great variation seen in aspect and habit between members of a species.

H. Sapiens is a species. Intelligence is highly varied between its members. It is more of a mosaic than a spectrum. That variation is mostly in quality than in intensity.

The traits expressed as intelligence vary greatly across the different geographically diverse populations of humanity, as well as within them. I am highly mechanically inclined. Trump is very persuasive, and coercive. The structure of the eight billion brains among humanity is very similar in nearly all, though no two are exactly the same.

Trump got his ass kicked in a debate with a woman who has genetic roots in Africa and South Asia.

Was it a demonstration of lower intelligence in Trump? Perhaps. I saw it more as someone whose intellect has been devoted to self-promotion through deceit. The portion of his brainpower focused on his genitals is above average.

His arguments were based on an extensive knowledge informed by bullshit. He’s poorly educated by choice. He is largely self taught on the art of the con, after some home schooling on it by his dad.

This in general can apply also to his followers. Many grew up in a culture where blind faith in what they are told is the rule. Evangelical religion is a major factor in his ascent to power. It has indoctrinated the faithful into being bedazzled by such bullshit.

He has fooled many of the faithful, like many of the other antichrists littering history have. My dad’s older brother was killed in 1945 fighting one that emerged from Germany

I believe he is leading us to theocracy. Biologically we are all capable of reason to varying extent. Culturally we are heading in a direction that defies reason.