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

“Smart people tend to prefer to hang out with dumb people

They do this because their relationship is similar to a tyrant over a mob or a grandparent is over their grandchildren”

You can interpret it your own way, but mine is that he is saying smart people pick dumb friends to be “in charge” of them and dumb people agree to it since they have someone to do the leading for them

Don’t know if I personally believe that, but that wasn’t your question lol