An elementary school student asked me the NOT “politically correct” question, “Is an idiot smarter than a moron?” I had to Google it because I was afraid to respond in today’s PC society and didn’t want to offend him, his parents, or anyone else. Here’s what I found. Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot. Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test. An IQ between: 00-25 = Idiot 26-50 = Imbecile 51-70 = MoronExplaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included. When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots! . Ray Palla
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The phrase, “An adult is an idiot,” is a statement that we can all agree on. It’s a way of saying that we don’t trust anyone over the age of twenty-five. This attitude also extends to other people who aren’t adults. Unfortunately, this kind of thinking is quite common in society today.

The people in power don’t listen to their citizens and they don’t listen to other people who are older than twenty-five. If the people in power don’t listen to us, then we can’t trust them. They might do anything for their own benefit and we should be wary of everything they say and do.

Which means that we shouldn’t listen to anyone over the age of twenty-five either. The statement, “Adults are idiots,” is a way of saying that we can’t trust anyone over the age of twenty-five.

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