MENSA: The Top Two Percent
Intellectual Classism Incarnate
One needs score in the top two percent
To demonstrate the genius bent
And join with the highest of the high.
Valuing intelligence is a very good idea,
But I'm not sure that confirming it
Through membership
Makes its highest value clear.
To recognize it in children
And in grownups as well,
MENSA tends to attract egoists
Who believe they're really swell
And better because scores say so
No matter the condition of their lives -
What percentage are husbands?
Are there more or fewer wives?
Being smart's a good thing
And being smarter's even better
Unless the recognition brings
False dryness to the wetter,
The test can be taken by those who apply
And scored to scale their cognition,
But I suspect it fails to supply
Data about their inhibitions
To be at home among the average
Who may seem to them quite savage
And unloving with the lesser.
I thing I'll leave that application
On someone else's dresser.
If I've been unfair to MENSA
I apologize to you,
Elitism is just something unshakably
Abhorrent to me ... And to you?
Published by David A. Reinstein, LCSW - Featured Contributor in Technology
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43 Comments
Post a CommentMaybe smart but not brave enough to identify. This intelligence sounds a tad bogus to me.
Hey!
I'm a member of Mensa and I think you're a dumbass! I'm extremely smart! HA!
Great work!
A creative muse.
Okay.....not sure what brought on the MENSA slam.
MENSA are a-holes. If you make fun of their inflated self worth they mistake it as you making fun of their intelligence. Watch the American Justice episode with George Trepal!
Unfortunately, possessing something and using it are two different things. I figure it could be very frustrating at times driving in traffic.
My mother was a member of MENSA I believe...or else she could have qualified, I can't remember. Very smart. Not a good person, though...honestly :(
(continued) If I had a low or average IQ and people poked fun at my lack of common sense - well that would be unacceptable!
The common feeling in America seems to be that you should limit your vocabulary and pretend disinterest in science. If you don't, people will accuse you of being elitist. People don't get to choose their IQ so it's just as nasty to put people down for having high IQs as it is to put down those with low IQs. I don't agree that people should pretend to be less intelligent than they are to avoid abuse but I don't think people should call attention to themselves with high IQ societies either. It's interesting to see how these comments show that people need to put people down. If they learn that someone is doing well in school or has a high IQ they need to find a way to tear them down, to say they have no common sense or that they are elitists. Having a high IQ but having no common sense is sometimes a symptom of autism. It is in my case. Isn't it awesome that I can be put down for being autistic in this way and no one has to feel guilty about it! If I had a low or average IQ and people pok