I really do think more people could internalize "the world was made up by people no smart than you" if they viewed intelligence through the lens of personal taste rather than what knowledge you've accumulated.

You’re not “high iq”, your obsessive introspection is stopping you from being authentic and crippling you with a false sense of superiority that you’re too important to enjoy the small things in life, too esoteric for the smallfolk to understand, too proud to be happy, and in the end you win the prize of misery and loneliness—lonely not because... See more

signals an intelligence which can’t be faked. you can use all the technical jargon and namedrop philosophers all you want; none of that will showcase your authentic pattern recognition and cognitive flexibility quite like telling a contextual and well-timed jokey joke