The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The internet increasingly rewards the angrier, louder side, the more certain-sounding side, often the stupider side.
Maybe intelligence is being able to understand why the other side believes what it believes.
Introducing WTF: Discourse.
Two opposing ideas. Two people who actually believe them. No winner. Just the strongest version of both arguments.
You decide what you believe.
Hunger strikes, protests, lathicharges, arrests, student letters to CM, and yet the Goonj of Telangana’s students has neither reached Rahul Gandhi nor his arrogant Congress government.
So I decided to write to @RahulGandhi in his mother tongue.