Authors Note: I wrote this piece as an assignment explaining what the following quote meant to me. Personally, I found this thought to be a hard one to express and put on paper. Hopefully you understand what I was trying to get out of this. What do you think it means?
"Everyone is an idiot, not just people with low SAT scores. The only difference between us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day about being an idiot." - Scott Adams
Smart; the dictionary knows it as "having or showing a quick intelligence or ready mental capability". But it's much more than that. Being smart isn't just being able to spell the most words or solve the longest equations. It's not being able to locate different things on a map or having the most extended vocabulary. Smart people think. They consider. They decide. When faced with a problem, a smart person won't only think of all the various solutions, but contemplate their outcomes. How doing one thing can effect so many other things.
One of the most obvious examples of this is in the book The Giver. The people of the community are all idiots. Though many of them excel greatly academically, they don't have the intelligence to think for themselves.They just go along with what everyone else is doing, and what others say they should do. I believe that though these people may be naive to the circumstances they are put under, their overall actions show much form of idiocy.
In today's society, people don't make smart choices. Whether the reason is peer pressure, confusion or even lack of common knowledge. Everybody messes up. Everybody does things wrong. And everybody is an idiot.
