This quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: “Men of very great capacity, will as a rule, find the company of very stupid people preferable to that of the common run; for the same reason that the tyrant and the mob, the grandfather and the grandchildren, are natural allies.”

Question

This makes sense to me, but I can’t put into words exactly why it makes sense. Could someone please put it into words?

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Answer 1

I don’t know what Schopenhauer was saying. But perhaps relatedly, when very smart people hang out with quite smart people, sometimes the quite smart people can get competitive and resentful about the very smart people’s intelligence. But very smart and pretty dumb folks can just hang out and have fun and be chill about everything.