Interviews or It’s OK to be smart

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It’s ok to be smart

It’s ok to be smart and it’s ok to do things unnaturally and it’s also ok to do things which get reaction and it’s also ok to combine the two.

Usually the way the media plays is on the fears of public, especially during the 50s and 60s when everybody who had an IQ over 28, let’s say, was probably a threat to the community. Because you know, the person who can think for himself is just liable to realize that commercials don’t mean anything and what they write in newspapers is wrong.

It’s fashionable to disparage people who are smart. The bad part about that is that a lot of people who were born smart pretend to be dumb so they can have friends. And that’s a tragedy.

I try to encourage people if they are intelligent, to not be ashamed, do what you gonna do and forget about having friends and acting dumb in order to have friends. Because those friends aren’t gonna do any good anyway.

And if you know deep down in your heart that you are a dumb kind of a person, don’t be ashamed of it. That’s the way you are. Have a good time, you are dumb. You can sit in front of a television, drink beer, watch hockey and love it. You have none of the problems that people who know more than you do. Because the more you know the less you like it. Everybody should be happy with what they got.