| ▲ | nashashmi 12 hours ago | |
You could also ask the same question to why dumb people are happier. What is it about intelligence that robs people of joy? | ||
| ▲ | aleph_minus_one 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> What is it about intelligence that robs people of joy? A hypothesis: intelligence makes it possible to realize how unfair you are treated by other people and society. This is also a premise in the respective part of the well-known science-fiction novel "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. | ||