Why does evil have a high IQ?
This was a question I never put to you.
But good people never know what to do.
I thought I knew what my good fortune meant.
I kissed you, but otherwise I was mostly silent.
As a good person, there was one thing I knew—
the universe is large enough that one can hide from stupidity.
Stupidity comes for one on evil’s behalf.
Hostility hides in humor, but I couldn’t laugh—
conversation wasn’t easy with you,
but we could have talked for hours, had I asked,
Why does evil have a high IQ?
Joviality is reserved for the smart,
not for the terrified, love-sick, heart.
Melancholy philosophers, we could have been
contented. You would have sensed immediately
the thrust of my question. Had my poetry
been less philosophical,
you probably would have given up on me
sooner. On hearing the question,
you would have inclined your head,
and smiled as you talked.
I would have focused on your face and mouth—
and listened, I’m certain, with a sense of dread.
Scarriet 
Anonymous said,
July 20, 2024 at 3:26 am
Better a good heart than a good mind;
at least you’ll be friendly, honest and kind.
A good heart and a good mind is best of all,
you might change the world like Jesus or Paul.
A bad heart and good mind is most dangerous of all,
this the evil genius we call.
But a bad heart and a bad mind, what can we say?
You.might end up President of the U.S. of A.
noochinator said,
July 20, 2024 at 8:35 pm
Bad heart and a good mind,
I think of Goebbels (Joe),
And his whole family committing suicide;
Ho ho freaking ho!
(Biden’s gone, can Trump get gone too?
Harris v. Vance would be a dream come true!
You bring the ice cream,
I’ll bring the Jiffy Pop—
Political junkiedom
For three months non-stop!)
thomasbrady said,
July 22, 2024 at 11:31 am
Harris would beat Vance. The American voter rejects intellectualism every time. Vance wrote an actual book. He would lose.
noochinator said,
July 22, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Nixon wrote Six Crises, released in 1962, and got elected prez in 1968. But of course it’s a different country now than it was then.
Anonymous said,
July 22, 2024 at 8:28 pm
Have you guys actually read ‘Hillbilly Elegy’?
thomasbrady said,
July 22, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Anti-intellectuals don’t like books. It doesn’t matter if I don’t, either, or haven’t read Vance’s book, since I am an intellectual. I doubt voters had any idea Six Crises existed. I’ve never heard of it. Nixon didn’t come across as an intellectual. Adlai Stevenson did, and intellectuals were crushed when he lost. Intellectuals never win the presidency.
Anonymous said,
July 23, 2024 at 12:35 am
This is because intellectuals are probably too intelligent to want to roll around in the political slime.
noochinator said,
July 23, 2024 at 8:19 am
Quoth the Wiki (which also sez Six Crises was ghostwritten, and released as a response to JFK’s ghostwritten Profiles in Courage):
Six Crises was a best seller at the time.[8] Sales were of over 300,000 copies and it was excerpted at length in LIFE magazine.
Six Crises – Wikipedia
thomasbrady said,
July 23, 2024 at 11:32 am
It was a wash, then. Kennedy’s book v Nixon’s book. Never in a million years would Americans elect someone because they wrote a book. Anti-intectualism is America’s political religion. I’m enjoying Charles Coulombe right now on You Tube. Catholic monarchist. It’s antithetical to every kind of American political populism but like it or not you need to know your history to have any understanding of it at all.
noochinator said,
July 23, 2024 at 4:07 pm
I think the colonists were wrong to revolt against the Brits. The British army had defeated the French and the Indian threats, and once those external threats were gone, the colonists turned against the Brit army.
thomasbrady said,
July 23, 2024 at 9:50 pm
Nooch go to You Tube and watch some Charles Coulombe. I want to know what you think. I’m pro Founders, American Republic etc but he says some really interesting things. He calls democracy ‘snout counting’ and says people will allow crooks to rip them off far more if they “vote” than if a king is ripping them off.
noochinator said,
July 23, 2024 at 8:24 am
Can you give us your précis-Gar of Hillbilly Elegy? I do know Glenn Close played his grandma in the movie version. I’ll get to it eventually, right now I’m watching Altman’s Fool for Love (1985), a wallow in American naturalism (which I suspect Hillbilly Elegy is too, but with “uplift”).
Anonymous said,
July 24, 2024 at 1:39 am
I have always heard that the only truly good government is a benevolent monarchy.
the problem is that you don’t become the monarch by being benevolent.
noochinator said,
July 25, 2024 at 8:53 am
And don’t forget the book by Hans-Herrmann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed
Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice): Hoppe, Hans-Hermann: 9781138522169: Amazon.com: Books
I see Coulombe did a podcast with a gimlet-eyed view of the Am’n Rev’n, which is catnip to me:
Revisiting the American Revolution with Charles Coulombe – YouTube
Norway Carlos said,
September 26, 2024 at 12:00 pm
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