"Mental masturbation" is a term coined and popularized by Grady Towers in one of his well-known essays on IQ and high-IQ societies to describe the tendency of Mensa members and typical members of Internet high-IQ societies to habitually engage in fruitl
when giftedness is prized by all the world,
but half-smart fools waste it? How to digest
then this abuse? May this sin be unfurled
and laid bare to all so these fools graduate,
and lay aside their intellectual games
and puzzles than mentally “masturbate,”
to never rise to lofty genius's aims.
If Plato, Newton, Einstein, Beethoven,
or Shakespeare had been content to misspend
their gifts away, then the world of mere men
would long have come to its benighted end!
Therefore, reform your minds, ye half-smart fools;
and once more test yourselves again in schools.
Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen
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Written on 2021-01-20 at 16:18
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Mental Masturbation
What does it profit to take IQ testswhen giftedness is prized by all the world,
but half-smart fools waste it? How to digest
then this abuse? May this sin be unfurled
and laid bare to all so these fools graduate,
and lay aside their intellectual games
and puzzles than mentally “masturbate,”
to never rise to lofty genius's aims.
If Plato, Newton, Einstein, Beethoven,
or Shakespeare had been content to misspend
their gifts away, then the world of mere men
would long have come to its benighted end!
Therefore, reform your minds, ye half-smart fools;
and once more test yourselves again in schools.
Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen
Read 271 times
Written on 2021-01-20 at 16:18
Tags Gifted Mensa
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