Some Smart People: Views and Lives 3
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/09/22
Some Smart People: Views and Lives 3 is part of a long series for more than a decade on the high-IQ communities. The following are acknowledgements and the foreword for this volume by Claus Volko, M.D. and Graham Powell. This is intended as a free public access resource.
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Acknowledgements
For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 1: Manahel Thabet for being the first in this series and giving a gauge on the feasibility of this project, and to Evangelos Katsioulis, Jason Betts, Marco Ripà, Paul Cooijmans, and Rick Rosner; in spite of far more men in these communities, it, interview-wise, started with a woman, even the Leo Jung Mensa article arose from the generosity of a woman friend, Jade.
For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 2: Claus Volko, Deb Stone, Erik Haereid, Hasan Zuberi, Ivan Ivec, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Monika Orski, and Rick Rosner.
For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 3: Andreas Gunnarsson, Anja Jaenicke, Christian Sorensen, Claus Volko, Dionysios Maroudas, Florian Schröder, Ronald K. Hoeflin, Erik Haereid, Giuseppe Corrente, Graham Powell, Guillermo Alejandro Escárcega Pliego, HanKyung Lee, James Gordon, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Krystal Volney, Laurent Dubois, Marco Ripà, Matthew Scillitani, Mislav Predavec, Owen Cosby, Richard Sheen, Rick Farrar, Rick Rosner, Sandra Schlick, Tiberiu Sammak, Tim Roberts, Thomas Wolf, Tom Chittenden, Tonny Sellén, and Tor Jørgensen.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Foreword by His Lordship of Roscelines, Graham Powell
First off, my interviews with Scott Douglas Jacobsen have been pleasurable and intellectually exhilarating. The discussion points have concerned my voluntary work as the editor of the World Intelligence Network magazine WIN ONE, which I revamped in 2019 as Phenomenon magazine.
The editor’s job is artistic, logistical and time-dependant. The primary work of an editor is to make any content as warmly appreciated as possible, be that by amending the text, adding subheadings, or by placing the content in an appealing order that flows from one topic to another. This last task is, I think, the most significant one that an editor can make.
Over the years, it has often made me smile when I have recalled the diverse circumstances in which I have performed the editing process, my adventures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa bringing about their own challenges, especially when each publishing deadline got close.
Creating an opus has always meant producing something that the editor scans thoroughly, particularly for errors and precise information. Most often, however, due to the time constraints, I have not explored the deeper meanings and consequences of increased knowledge as fully as I would have liked. Enter stage left, Scott Douglas Jacobsen.
Scott has always been supremely well prepared, and he has produced questions that are profound and stimulating, which is a rare aspect to interviews, and something I am sure the discerning reader will discover during their exploration of this book.
Hence, implicitly, this book is a chance for readers to broaden their knowledge base and to gain access to the thought processes and interests of highly intelligent people from varied cultures and societies across the world. For this, I thank Scott for the work he is doing and wish all the readers of this book a challenging and rewarding experience as they head towards the final page.
Foreword by Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Claus D. Volko, BSc
It is my pleasure to write a foreword to one of the editions of “Some Smart People: Lives and Views”. Scott Jacobsen is one of very few people who are deeply interested in highly intelligent people, regardless of their social status, and gives them a platform where they can present their thoughts and ideas. For this, the high IQ community ought to be grateful for him. As a matter of fact, many highly intelligent people have not achieved a social status that would make them relevant for the mainstream media. Michael Ferguson wrote an essay about this phenomenon, called “The Inappropriately Excluded”. It states that with an IQ above 140, chances to become a university professor, a physician, a judge or anything else with a high social status are lower than for people with an IQ between 130 and 140, and the higher your IQ, the lower are your chances. This is a phenomenon which makes me personally sad. I myself have at least had the chance to study and graduate with an M.D. and an MSc degree, but when I sent my resume to research institutions I also got rejected. In the end I managed to get some papers published thanks to my late friend and mentor Dr. Uwe Rohr, whom I had met at Mensa. Uwe was also highly gifted and had bad experiences with academia. He repeatedly stated that in academia people with revolutionary ideas are not wanted because they disturb the system. That was why he had a hard time in his life himself.
One of the papers I published together with Uwe is called “Model approach for stress induced steroidal hormone cascade changes in severe mental diseases”. As the name suggests, it presents a model of how severe mental diseases are caused by changes to the steroidal hormone cascade, which are themselves caused by stress. For this paper, I conducted extensive literature research. My own unpublished paper “Symbiont Conversion Theory” is a generalization of Uwe’s ideas on how these diseases could be treated.
I am aware that not all highly intelligent individuals are interested in science and research, and on the other hand it is also questionable if high intelligence is really required for these endeavors. Personally, Einstein has been a role model for me, and it is often said that he made his achievements in theoretical physics only because of his high intelligence. That is why I, having sensed that I am more intelligent than most people, have been interested in science since childhood.
But probably the general public overestimates the power of intelligent people. Due to the political system, intelligent people actually have hardly any power. The system in fact perpetuates itself since brainwashed people make decisions based on what they have been told to do, and they pass these brainwashed opinions on to the next generation. The results of the elections do not really reflect what the voters are thinking but what they have been told to think.
In reality, highly intelligent people are more of a fringe group, which would be hardly heard by others if there were not courageous people like Scott Jacobsen. Again, thank you very much for what you are doing.
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