Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Dr. Todd Grande" channel.

  1. No doubt narcissism is a major problem and study of it is very interesting as well as helpful to humanity, but it's also no doubt also a good topic behind which to safely hide and lob diagnoses of illness at anyone who triggers your sense of inferiority. This monologue might have been titled "10 Ways I've Been Made To Feel Mediocre and Why Every Time It's Because the Person Who Excited My Awareness of This Was a Sick Bastard, Because I Don't Have a Mediocre Mind, They Do. Now Where's My Soybean and Quinoa Salad in a Tupperware Container? I'm Going to Eat It While Reading Something Postmodernist That Flatters Me in My Dullness." In other words, although he has valid things to say about people who are jerks, I think he uses all this to defensively soothe his worries about his own cleverness. His remarks on IQ sound very suspiciously like an attempt to deal with envy and resentment by twisting things to validate himself, most particularly his sad assertion that someone with an IQ of 120 "will function pretty similarly" to someone with an IQ over 140. What? IQ point differences in my view should be thought of, very roughly speaking, as analogous to inches of difference in height between people, not millimetres. A healthy ego thus requires that you freely admit, when someone's IQ is more than 20 points higher than your own, that they are a lot more intelligent. Parts of this are like a harangue about how unimportant and shallow physical beauty is---a tenable position maybe---but coming in a defensive tone from a notably homely person. You sense that what they're saying is really about their feelings, not the subject at hand.
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