Hadrien Laporte on the Jealousness of Smarts

There is a form of social illness whose sufferers can not only not tolerate encountering different opinions and ideas in person, but cannot bear the thought that such things might exist unencountered in the minds and conversations of others. If they can’t observe these thoughts and aren’t party to such conversations, how can they demonstrate their moral and intellectual superiority by intervening with The Truth?

– Hadrien Laporte