We all like problems. Many of us enjoy mystery stories, in which we try to find out “whodunnit?”. People enjoyed working on the problems they found as they tried to utilize electricity. Solving problems in chemicals led to all sorts of wonderful new materials that are an important part of our daily lives. Solving problems with the various types of internal combustion engines progressed from trying, and failing, to inject gunpowder into the cylinders to using gasoline and diesel fuel. Solving problems in flight led to rapid transportation all around the world and beyond.
There’s another type of problem to which lesser intellects gravitate. These are “problems in education, health care, and universal well-being.” They are not solved with intellect, but by diluting the genius needed to solve problems with idiocy.
On the right side of the bell curve that illustrates the comparative intellects of energy problem solvers, there are the people who are developing the latest and most efficient nuclear reactors. On the left side, we see the people who are interested in ethanol, solar, and wind power. We can measure their respective intellects by the costs of the solutions they invent. A large, efficient nuclear reactor will produce electricity at a cost of .015-.02 cents/kilowatt hour. A wind “farm” will produce electricity at a cost of $1.20 cents/kilowatt hour.
One may conclude that the thinking ability of the nuclear engineer is, therefore, in excess of sixty times that of the wind power enthusiast. This intellectual difference is not the inborn, “real intelligence”, but indicates the mental impairment caused by believing large numbers of lies, which may be described as “operating intelligence”.
We cannot understand, or have any hope of betterment, in what’s going on around us if we do not distinguish that the lie-impaired “operating intelligence” is in perpetual warfare with the real, underlying intelligence that we all possess in often unused abundance.
