How the Dumb Inherited the Earth

We never saw it coming, we were all at university studying to be the future intelligentsia. We wanted to be lawyers, accountants, and bankers, we wanted to be science teachers, podiatrists, and politicians and we made it! We had the degrees and the diplomas. The recognition and applause of a grateful nation. Yet, a creeping uncertainty came upon us, barbers, beauticians, plumbers, and contractors began to look at us with pitying eyes. It slowly dawned upon even us that our kind of intelligence was synthetic, by-rote, and inflexible. We could only see what we were taught, and we were taught by the self-deluded. Ordinary working people began to see through us. Their minds were growing perceptive, insightful, and far-seeing. There's were the real intellect and comprehension. theirs the true understanding and acumen. Life itself had led them into seeking questions we had never thought to ask. At first they attempted to transfer their greater acuity onto us, but we just did not get it at all. We were not prepared for real thinking. We knew though that we still ruled society, and so we kept telling ourselves how smart we were while all those other's that did not have our book smarts tried hard to ignore our ever increasing dumbness.