Twas Brillig

I KNEW I was better than just about everyone else!  I KNEW it!  And now you know it too.  Though, I realize that this WON’T be news to most of you.  I mean, OBVIOUSLY this would be my result:

Please! Like we hadn’t all guessed that one already!

(It does make me wonder, though, how smart people do on such a quiz.)

Thank GOODNESS I’ve managed to find a way to channel all that brilliance and get RICH.

Oh wait…

Interestingly enough, Hypatia is the only female of all time who was considered a “Universal Genius.”  (We know of more men who qualify— possibly because throughout history men were given more opportunities to display their intelligence, possibly because men simply tend to do better in tests of logic.  But I’m SO NOT GETTING myself into THAT debate!)  I’m pretty sure that I, um, don’t exactly measure up to Hypatia’s genius.  Or, you know, even the brilliance of most of my acquaintances.  Still, I can tell people that some silly internet quiz says that I’m a Universal Genius, and therefore I MUST be!  Because silly internet quizzes DO NOT LIE!

Also, in a somewhat related vein, there’s a part in Becoming Jane where Tom LeFroy tells Jane Austen, “I think that you consider yourself a cut above the company— secretly.”  This, of course, is on the heels of her announcing to her friends that she considers him to be pompous and arrogant.  The line (in fact, the whole story) is not historically accurate— we have no reason to believe that he said anything like that to her.  Still, I found it intriguing.

I was talking with my dear bloggy friend Jenn in Holland a while back and we were discussing how we have both felt, for much of our lives, like we were the fish out of water.  Not in a dibilitating or alienating way or anything morbid like that.  Just that we were… a little different from the rest of the crowd.  Whether we were at Church, school, society in general, we just felt a little bit different.  But the more people I talk to, the more I hear this story.  It got me thinking that perhaps EVERYONE feels like a fish out of water.  Does anyone ever actually feel like they fit in?  Like they are one of the crowd?  Like they belong?

And, even more interesting, do you think that you’re not just “not a part of the group,” but better than the group?  I’ve been contemplating this for some time, and I decided that it was time to poll Teh Internets.  Remember that with my polls, your answers are completely confidential— I have NO WAY of knowing who voted how.  So… be honest!

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And by “better,” I mean any of the following: smarter (like me and my Universal Genius-ness), more moral, more righteous, more interesting, richer, better dressed, better coiffed, more experienced, more successful, better with money, funnier, prettier, deeper, more charismatic, more charming, or any other thing that YOU think makes YOU better than others.

Polls close tomorrow at midnight (Mountain Time). We’ll continue the discussion after the poll results (and your comments) are in!