I think it's partly because smart people are hated by society. Consider the negative connotations of the words 'geek' and 'nerd'.
I think this resentment is grounded in jealousy. Like Schopenhauer observed, less intelligent people perceive the intelligence differential when they interact with people who are more intelligent than themselves and this leads to a profound sense of resentment.
It's not just about intelligence, I think less intelligent people are jealous of more intelligent people because more intelligent people are more aware, more conscious. There is a deep jealousy. In the same way that someone can be jealous of someone's good looks, someone can be jealous of one's intelligence... And it goes deeper than just the kind of intelligence which is valued by the markets. People can be jealous of intangible forms of intelligence, even someone's 'emotional sensitivity' can the the subject of envy...
Though of course people's mental models of whether or not someone possesses certain intellectual capabilities are not always accurate, overall people do have a relatively good sense of other people's psychological profiles...
Some people are really good at sensing other people's psychological profiles and these people tend to be the most jealous. Like the bully who picks on the nerd at school. The bully has a strong sense of the nerd's intellectual capabilities and his jealousy fills him with resentment and anger which he cannot explain in words (as he lacks the intellectual capability of even processing his own feelings rationally). His heightened sense of others' psychology may be a bully's only intellectual asset. This can be very frustrating and some of them will make the most of their understanding of psychology to manipulate others because their success in controlling others helps to compensate for their shortcomings in other intellectual areas.
Being able to control others is a form of intelligence, but it's also a pathology once exercised.
I think this resentment is grounded in jealousy. Like Schopenhauer observed, less intelligent people perceive the intelligence differential when they interact with people who are more intelligent than themselves and this leads to a profound sense of resentment.
It's not just about intelligence, I think less intelligent people are jealous of more intelligent people because more intelligent people are more aware, more conscious. There is a deep jealousy. In the same way that someone can be jealous of someone's good looks, someone can be jealous of one's intelligence... And it goes deeper than just the kind of intelligence which is valued by the markets. People can be jealous of intangible forms of intelligence, even someone's 'emotional sensitivity' can the the subject of envy...
Though of course people's mental models of whether or not someone possesses certain intellectual capabilities are not always accurate, overall people do have a relatively good sense of other people's psychological profiles...
Some people are really good at sensing other people's psychological profiles and these people tend to be the most jealous. Like the bully who picks on the nerd at school. The bully has a strong sense of the nerd's intellectual capabilities and his jealousy fills him with resentment and anger which he cannot explain in words (as he lacks the intellectual capability of even processing his own feelings rationally). His heightened sense of others' psychology may be a bully's only intellectual asset. This can be very frustrating and some of them will make the most of their understanding of psychology to manipulate others because their success in controlling others helps to compensate for their shortcomings in other intellectual areas.
Being able to control others is a form of intelligence, but it's also a pathology once exercised.