I’ve noticed a very specific narrative pattern that continues to recur. It shows up not only in fiction, but in real life as well.<\/p>\n
In the movie Braveheart, there is a shocking moment when the king murders the lover of his son the prince by hurling him out of a window. Up until this scene, the film makes it very clear that the prince’s lover is strong, intelligent, highly competent, and has excellent judgement.<\/p>\n
It is therefore understood that with his lover by his side, the prince would have been able to rule as a wise and effective king. By removing his partner, the king has rendered his own son ineffective.<\/p>\n
The prince’s lover was killed precisely because<\/i> he was the smartest person in the room. In the king’s mind, by definition, a natural leader who is homosexual cannot be allowed to exist.<\/p>\n
Quite similarly, there is a shocking moment in Schindler’s List when Jews in a concentration camp are being put to work on a construction project. One of the Jews, a young woman, informs their Nazi overseers that they are planning the project all wrong.<\/p>\n
Before being sent to the concentration camp, she explains, she had been a civil engineer. She tells them how they would need to proceed to do the project effectively.<\/p>\n
The Nazi commandant immediately takes out his gun and shoots her dead. Then he informs his underlings to do the project the way she had instructed.<\/p>\n
The young engineer was killed precisely because<\/i> she was the smartest person in the room. In the commandant’s mind, by definition, a natural leader who is Jewish cannot be allowed to exist.<\/p>\n
We have recently seen this pattern repeated, with remarkable fidelity, in real life. General Brown was fired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff precisely because<\/i> he was the smartest person in the room. In the mind of the person who fired him, by definition, a natural leader who is black cannot be allowed to exist.<\/p>\n
In all three of these cases, the discerning observer understands that things will end very badly for the fool who has removed the smartest person from the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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