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This is why it is easier for higher IQ people to be more easily and deeply deceived by those high IQ people who are deceptive.

Higher IQ people are more creative and open minded than low IQ people, and have more common sense. Not saying that it makes them more special, just that it is what it is.

Higher IQ people tend to be more well-adjusted in society because they are more deeply indoctrinated, they typically do not perform as well outside of their element.
Because knowledge is not perfect/comprehensive, the 'edge' they hold over lower IQ people is true only within the human world. In a bigger picture, there is no difference between higher and lower IQ people because they are both flawed.
However, the modern world is a design/vision of intelligence first and foremost, it is only natural that higher IQ people are celebrated in society.
It's just a shame that lower IQ people are not recognized for their actual worth and contribution to human progress. Having easier access to "la la land" means that their minds are more flexible, more accommodating of new ideas, this complements the rigidness of sharp traditional intelligence.
Human intelligence is a lot more vulnerable/fragile than people think and this is because knowledge has yet to encompass everything.
For intelligent people, not being able to figure out the why's and how's can be downright scary. Not so much for less intelligent people, they help take some of the edge off the unknown. The less intelligent is somewhat of a muse to the intelligent.

I find higher IQ people to be better well adjusted, and healthier. They have a better understanding of nutrition, while lower IQ people are more prone to go by what feels good. I can see how higher IQ people will have members that have problems like depression and all, since they are less likely to be in la la land, and mindlessly find pleasure in fantasies. But the OP takes it to mean that all higher IQ people suffer from such things.

A Florida city was quick to show how serious it is about its new homeless feeding ban by making an example out of a 90-year-old advocate who’s been helping the hungry for two decades.

On Sunday police cited two Christian ministers and volunteer Arnold Abbott, 90, who runs the advocacy group, Love The Neighbor, Local 10 News reported.

The three served less than a handful of the 300 meals they prepared before the police run in, according to the Sentinel.

They each now face 60 days in jail and $500 fines.

“These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don’t have a roof over their heads,” Abbott, who plans on suing the city, told Local 10 News. “How do you turn them away?”

Members of the organization Food Not Bombs were in good spirits as they passed out corn on the cob, rice, beans and other vegetarian dishes to the homeless and hungry in an Orlando park. This cheer was interrupted when police officers on bicycles arrived and arrested five of the volunteers.

This is not the first time this scene has played out for members of Food Not Bombs.

Since June 1, a dozen members of the group have been arrested for violating a new Orlando city ordinance that prohibits sharing food with large groups in downtown parks more than twice a year.

The mayor of Orlando even branded them “food terrorists.”

It would be difficult to convince the staff of a Catholic soup kitchen feeding the homeless that they are actually helping the U.S. economy, but that is exactly what an academic journal reports in its study on the economic impact of America’s churches. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion found that religious communities contribute $1.2 trillion each year to the American economy.

These contributions range from the traditional economic drivers of any business to charitable giving, caring for the sick and poor, education and other kinds of services. That is more than the annual revenues of the top 10 tech companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google, combined. And if the $1.2 trillion is viewed in terms of the Gross Domestic Product, religion in the U.S. would be ranked as the 15th-largest national economy in the world.

The study looked at the 344,894 congregations in the country, from 236 religious denominations (217 are Christian, and the rest include everything from Shinto to Zoroastrianism). What it discovered was that believers are not only contributing massively to the economy, but they are incredibly generous, too. Despite declining religious affiliation in the U.S. population, religious communities have actually tripled the amount of money spent on social programs in the last 15 years, donating $9 billion to the cause.

At a time when the relevance of faith is being questioned by media elites and the government, and when believers — Christians, above all — are being ridiculed and pushed out of the public square, there is now tangible evidence of the practical value that the mere presence of faith offers to America. Believers are a vital and vibrant part of the economic and social life of the United States, as vital and vibrant as at any time in American history.