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During covid I spent too much time on a professional social media site called fishbowl app. I initially thought I would encounter quality discussions to help makes sense of the insanity. Bc the site was populated by lawyers, accountants, consultants, etc.

Sure, many on there were wickedly smart, just not in a way that was helpful. They had been educated so long that they universally lost the ability to actually think for themselves. I would characterize that group as ideologically conformist and therefore blind, conceited, and arrogant. Smugly stupid. They had this intuitive, finely honed knack for identifying “approved” thoughts and then thinking such thoughts, and only those thoughts, with zeal. And like a school of fish, they would turn on a dime and think completely opposite thoughts the moment the official narrative changed. It was truly something to behold as it happened in real time. And woe to thee who tried to make them see their patterns.

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The point of the bar exam mask requirement is to filter out the intelligent in favor of the obedient.

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