Are People Really as Stupid as You Think?

In my experience, people are underestimated. When I first meet people, I have this expectation of their stupidity. The extent to which this is proliferated through our society was unknown to me since I assumed it was isolated to my own sentiment. There is this belief that runs throughout our society that there is a class strata based on intelligence. While a Jeffersonian elite may not be a bad thing, this is the reverse of that. Instead of intelligent people rising to positions of prominence in society, people who have risen to positions of prominence are considered intelligent.

Intelligence has no bearing on social status. Just ask Paris Hilton.

But this creates an idea; an idea that people are inferior and stupid if they are underneath you. How simple is it to ask for someone's opinion? Ask them how they would do it? Ask them what they like about it? If only for the past couple weeks, I have learned that you will get an amazing amount of ideas from people that others deem idiots by being open to their intellect. Its not as hard as you think.