As has been documented over and over again, American culture is spectacularly anti-intellectual. This phenomenon transcends pretty much every socioeconomic demographic, other perhaps than certain groups who rely on extremely high intelligence to accomplish whatever it is they need to accomplish, and certain groups who mistakenly imagine themselves to possess extremely high intelligence (cf. George Will and that blinky-eyed doofus who wrote something about Bobos.).
The result is that those of us with extraordinary intelligence find ourselves out-voted, out-shouted, out-muscled, out-progenied, and just generally out-done in every realm of social achievement by those of lesser capability. We can't even have a sensible conversation amongst ourselves without being interrupted by the nonsensical bleatings of dimwits who wonder bullshitty wonderings like, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich," or "Isn't your intelligence just one of many kinds of intelligence," or, "Why should the government be involved in regulating [insert pretty much anything here]".
Well, this diary is a specialdy special little retreat for the specialdy special among us who are sick and tired of being bullied and ignored by, for example, the 92% who approved of George W. Bush's handling of the 9/11 crisis. If that's you, please just try to shut your piehole for a moment, while the adults try to figure out how to save you all from yourselves.
If you haven't scored in the top 0.1% on a major standardized test, run along -- you aren't going to understand anything we've got to say, anyway.
Anybody else got anything?