Perhaps the deepest irony is that the original meaning of intelligence was not accumulation of information.
It was discernment.
The ability to distinguish signal from noise.
A person can carry the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket and still lose that ability.
A harsh word takes five seconds to speak. A grudge can survive thirty years. Economically speaking, it is one of the worst investments ever devised by a species that also invented cryptocurrency and reality television.
