Well. Upper tenth is just one in ten. Chances are blazing insights in that region are going to be ideas that have been had and discarded by a near a billion other people.

Whatever percentile the intellect, blazing insights are likely to be high variance ideas because they exist at the edge of the thinkers capacity. The implication is that most insights are wrong or poorly understood, as such they will be hard to explain.

It is the things that you take for granted that you truly understand and can explain, you'll just be surprised at the need. But to someone else who has less a gift for abstraction your explanation will seem a profound insight.

I prefer every "dumb" Hilly Billy over most High-IQ "Intelectuals".

gettn in the middle here Cuz i'm a midwit ffs

I think it is less a true lack of intelligence. It is the people being trained (indoctrinated) by government schools to be blind followers rather than thinkers. They've been taught to recite what they've been told rather than to analyze the facts and come to a conclusion.

We used to teach people how to analyze and to think. Then they were taught what to think. Now they are taught how to not think. Much modern education, especially higher education, actually seems to make people dumber than when they started being "educated."