re: #229 PT Barnum

We don’t care about how educated you are, being a condescending asshole on the other hand…

Ahh and here we have the raw nerve I hit exposed at its core.

This is not about me being smart.

Do you think that algebra is hard or advanced? Do you really think that makes someone smart? You have got to be kidding me.

Actual intellectual elitism would require that everyone pass a battery of exams on the level of an AP exam in pretty much all basic disciplines, coupled with mathematics through Complex Analysis and Linear Algebra, Organic Chemistry and basic Quantum Mechanics.

I think the world would be better if people actually knew algebra and rather than seeing it as something to get defensive about not knowing, would see it with shame shame as not being able to read.

Yet here we have a bunch of people who are feeling their special snow-flakeness threatened when they are told that sorry no, there is nothing to be proud of if you can’t beat a clever 5th grader’s math skills. But that is OK, that is exactly how the credit card companies and the banks rape you.

It is your right to proudly stand up for their right to rape you. It is after all a sign of your equal intelligence to everyone else and reason to believe that your expertise has merit in the place of actual knowledge.