lonelydoc said:
If you really need good grades, best of luck to you.
But I'm telling you, they aren't everything.
I graduated top 1% of my high school class of more than 1500 people. Aced advanced placement exams, presat, sat, went on to college and medical school.
Where did it get me? Miserable, no girl, no friends, no life, bitter, cynical, and alone.
'Intelligence' in this world is not really repaid, by any means. If anything they are often the more lonely people. Forced to be outcasts in a society more focused on physical strength than thought.
I'd personally say that this is because the entire concept of "intelligence" is not real. It is instead defined by the ruling class as nothing more than being a 'capable worker', of which they can exploit and maximize.
The loneliness therefore comes from the exploitation of this group, whom do nothing other than hold certain traits that the ruling class deemed 'optimal' for productivity. And as such that loneliness 'keeps them in their place' so that they do not hope for more than their current position in society. Because it is 'thought' which is most dangerous to their rule, but also most productive to them. So it must be very uniquely controlled. So they are controlled and essentially brainwashed to deem work, and therefore money, as their ultimate goal. To do this maximizes their productivity, which is what the ruling class desires. To reject this position is to label yourself as an outcast of the outcasts. Social suicide. They make **** sure of that.
Though that makes the ruling class sound more cunning and aligned than it really is. This process has come about through nothing less than centuries of social experimentation and control.
Of course, no one asked me...