Intelligence = Stupidity

It’s sometimes about confidence isn’t it? I mean, if somebody comes up to you and tells you with all the confidence in the world that rain definitely comes from apples, you might believe that person just because he or she sounded really confident about it. However, if somebody else tells you that rain might come from apples but that it’s probably more likely to come from the clouds in the skies, you will notice a bit of hesitation there and may start to wonder whether this person really knows what they’re talking about, I mean, if the first one sounded so convincing, he or she must probably be right, so why is this scatterbrain confusing us now about this clouds nonsense. This hesitation, which was probably meant by the second person not to make you feel stupid by believing that rain comes from apples, is mistaken by stupidity itself, so you end up believing that the person who’s actually telling you the truth is stupid.

It also depends whether you believe that the person talking to you has some kind of authority. If a father tells his child that rain comes from apples, of course the child will believe him, he’s taller, bigger and much older!

Talking about this, one thing that has annoyed me very often in the place where I work, are all these customers that approach me to ask me a question, and while I’m answering the question, they don’t look at my eyes, they look at my bloody badge! Why??? Are they looking for signs of credibility? What’s her name? Hum… That sounds foreign… What would a foreign female know about whisky anyway? Give me an old Scottish man and I’ll believe him anytime, even if he doesn’t have a clue about whisky.