>He will turn out like you were saying, ten times more >intellegent than those others, or at least in the ways that actually matter, >but at home with unused degrees in philosophy on the wall, macaroni on the >stove, attempting to figure out to what extent he is motivated by human >instinct. i'm sorry to tell you these people aren't highly intelligent, they're boring. And though I've never met them, i'd bet $20 they're arrogant as well.