homo escapeons

Mehsa

“I Don’t Want To Belong To Any Club That Will Accept Me As A Member.”
Groucho Marx

“I Would Never Belong To Any Club That Would Have Me As A Member!”
Woody Allan

“I Have Never Even Been Asked To Join Any Club That Would Have Me As A Member!”
Homo Escapeons

Most of us like to think that we are reasonably intellemajant. However we tend to be uncomfortable around people who are super- scary- smart. You know what I mean, the kind of people who are so smart, that it is stupid how smart they are!

Have you ever been to a cocktail party and found yourself in the unenviable position of attempting to engage in a meaningful, rewarding (ie. two-way) conversation with a genuine brainiac?

If so, the only solace is that deep down in the back of your reptilian limbic nodule, you know that there is an almost certain statistical probability, that your Einsteinian counterpart will be as socially retarded as this Poindexter in the glasses.

Am I right?

What really pisses us off is that people who are scary-stupid-smart, are born with a natural propensity to absorb knowledge by osmosis. We all went to school with them and we all hated their guts. We still hate them because instead of watching re-runs of Charlie’s Angels until 3 in the morning like the rest of us, they learn a new language in an hour... Nyeh!

So for them to study and decipher crap like the secrets of the universe is really no big whoop. Information just jumps into their brain. Remember how those freaks never had to cram for exams.

They somehow absorbed all of the information contained in their text books by simply placing it on their bedside table before they went to sleep...

What-ev-er!?

Unfortunately, in lieu of developing constructive relationships with these disadvantaged victims and teaching them how to interact with the other 98% of the population, we ostracise them, unless they are rich.

The sad truth is that Humans treasure the opportunity to wallow in the malicious enjoyment that we derive from the suffering of others who are way smarter than us.
We call that schandenfreude-a-poo-poo!

Why?
Because deep down, most of us are scared, fragile, insecure, miserable, little, twats.

One of the main obstacles in assessing others, with any degree of accuracy, is our reluctance to invest more than one millionth of a second towards judging another person's true character.

By being so frickin’ lazy, we make it very difficult to truly understand each other and have made this world a living hell for any of those poor bastards who are saddled with an IQ above 131. You can read about Steve Martin’s experience at http://www.aj.cz/celeb/sm5.htm

Another troubling aspect of our social skills is our apparent inability to distinguish self confidence from raging hubris. This of course varies from Culture to Culture, but we generally despise and envy others who have MORE of anything, especially ‘brains’, looks, sex, power, money, guns, and lawyers.

This is why social intercourse can be a living nightmare for everyone from the uber-shmart set and all the way down,

a little more,

almost,

few more inches,

there ya go,

all the way down to the Darwinian Dead-Enders on the Gerry Springer Show..oh c'mon they are all ‘acting’ anyway..

There are limits as to our civility. Certain social boundaries dictate what can reasonably be expected when dealing with insufferable smarty-pants. We have all met at least one poor misguided soul who blurts out that s/he is a member of a High IQ Club like MENSA.

MENSA!
Here comes the rolling of eyes, the gnashing of teeth, and the releasing of hounds. If someone brags about being in MENSA I almost always lose my composure and blurt out,
“I know you are but what am I? INFINITY!!!”

MENSA (rhymes with nyeh!) is of course “the largest, oldest, and best-known, smarty-pants organization in the world. Mensa restricts its membership to people with high testable IQs within the top 2% (at or above the 98th percentile) of any approved standardized intelligence test? An IQ of 100 is average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International

I.Q. Range

(cruel relic of the past!)
Intelligence Classification
Under 20
Profound Mental Retardation
20–34
Severe Mental Retardation
35–49
Moderate Mental Retardation
50–69
Mild Mental Retardation
70–79
Borderline Mental Retardation

80-114
Average Intelligence
115-129
Bright
130-144
Moderately Gifted
145-159
Highly Gifted
160-175
Exceptionally Gifted
Over 175
Profoundly Gifted

Mensa was formed “to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics, and the uses of intelligence, and to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members."

Christopher Hitchens once said that Mensa is basically just a "singles club for nerds.”

Since 9o frickin 8 percent of us are automatically disqualified, I think that it is why we resent them. I think that is about time to start our own club...

an organisation that more accurately reflects the needs of 90 frickin’ 8 percent of us!
So let’s start mehsa.

The term meh, for those of you who are not hip to it, is an expression of indifference: to be used, according to the Urban Dictionary,

when one simply does not care.

We will not have any IQ tests: let’s just assume that if you are dumb enough to join that you isn’t a Mensa Member.

There won’t be any secret handshakes, dumbass mission statements, dues, voting, costumes, or tiny motorcycles and cars to putt around in either.

We might just get together and try, or whatever, to help each other maintain our current universal lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance. We can celebrate the joy of pure utter indifference.

So if anyone wants to join..whatever…I really don't care if anyone joins...meh. Afterall, I wouldn't want to belong to any club...