What makes anybody smart?

Part of kanye's problem is that you aren't even
allowed to call yourself smart, or consider yourself smart
unless you ACHEIVE something that everybody recognizes as a work of genius.


what ppl miss is that being intelligent is more than
being good at music or writing or whatever.

High intelligence also gives you an internal world that is different
than most other ppl. And it is different before you accomplish a damn thing.

Your reactions to your environment will be different.
You'll notice (and probably be irritated by) shit
most ppl don't even notice.

And if you don't learn a very particular way of
expressing yourself... everybody will think you are a jerk.


That's kanye, from what I can tell.

I suspect he's smarter than average because
he seems to be hypersensitive to stimulus.
He gets distracted by a detail in the present moment
and doesn't consider how other ppl are perceiving what's happening.

He just strikes me as a highly sensative person
that has not learned that the rest of the world does not
share his sensitivity.

So, he's a jerk.

And because he is not quite as smart as he thinks he is
and doesn't think things through...

He's also pretty foolish.


But I don't know the man.
It's all speculation.