Riddle me this:
Is it wrong to be a self proclaimed genius?
Typically, most people are not geniuses. So if someone says you are a genius, they probably aren’t a genius and so you have a “non-expert” or “non-genius” saying you are exceptionally intelligent. How would they know? I mean, if they aren’t a genius, then they are speaking about something they don’t know anything about, can you trust their judgement?
Alternatively, if you proclaim yourself a genius, doesn’t that give your argument some weight? If a genius says something, typically their word is taken with high regard, so therefore if you are a genius, you should be able to talk about your intelligence with the utmost authority, YOU are the expert on YOU… or at least you should be.
Now if you proclaim yourself a genius and someone disagrees, what does that even matter, you are, after all, a genius! What would they know about this?
The only caveat to this logic is if you are talking to a genius. If a genius says you are a genius, then you probably are. If a genius says you are not a genius, you probably shouldn’t argue.
So should we only accept the word of geniuses in regards to whose a genius? Well that has a flaw as well. Someone at some point in time either had to be a self proclaimed genius or have some “non-genius” tell him/her that he/she is a genius.
It’s a sticky little conundrum isn’t it?