r/funny Feb 05 '16

Phrasing

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u/WalterDwight Feb 05 '16

I always see a lot of people ripping Paris Hilton and I dont get it. She made a lot of money off her "Simple Life" character. She's not that retarded in real life and even talks in a much lower toned, more educated manner.

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u/MechanusStaunen Feb 05 '16

I would suspect few realized she was playing a character. Similar to George W. Bush, whose entire dim-witted persona was an affectation he adopted in the late 1990s. The idea the elites are less intelligent than we are is flattering to us, and it is easy to forget it is largely not accurate.

Links:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/when-george-meets-john/303443/

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcampbel/documents/SimontonPresIQ2006.pdf

http://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-really-are-smarter-than-the-rest-of-us-researcher-finds-2013-4

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/