On the presidential immunity.
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Intelligence is not the word. Perhaps all human beings are intelligent, it just matters what they use it for. At least that’s what people who think themselves academics might say, I think.

The infamous psychologist, Carl Jung made a comment about how often human beings who celebrate their intelligence are really more exhibiting their animal nature, and that’s why throughout human history there has been esoteric teachings. Because the animal humans simply are not able to understand how to be more than an animal.

I have difficulty in applying the term intelligence to human beings who don’t want the best for everyone. I don’t mean this in a socialist kind of communist kind of way. I mean this in a very practical, non-egocentric kind of way. More a ‘belief that our system of democracy in the United States has an inherent wisdom that exceeds one person’s great ideas’ kind of way. That to be a public servant, to lead a country effectively, one needs to have a certain humility. We have to allow the system to work. And we have to know when to get out of the way despite what constituency might be seeming to tell us.

Intelligence?

I guess it’s a gray area. But I find myself calling certain people in our government stupid, and showing of that they have no intelligence. And it really bothers me that I resort to those kind of explanations. I’m always trying to figure out what I really mean.

Perhaps it’s rationality that I’m talking about. But then the issue with that is that I’m too educated to throw words such as “rationality” to know that 10,000 other people who think they’re so Smart will start to bring up critiques of rationality, as Infinitum. It really is nauseating.

Perhaps, through all this darting electron cloud, this is why I say that mental health is that the root of all things of human interaction. Because really what it comes down to is to be intelligent a person has to have a certain awareness about how their emotions are driving their thoughts or at least involved with them.

To be rational, it’s not just a matter of controlling emotions, it is more of acknowledging them, of understanding their language, of listening to the wisdom of emotions as to what they might be informing us of the situation even of things that we don’t want to hear.

So, perhaps what I mean by intelligence is a sort of “whole person” kind of intelligence. And most of the people in America simply do not have intelligence in this way. They simply do not give a shit.

And perhaps that’s why politics is so exciting!

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AI’s rendition of an “American president who is a dictator” prompt.