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Smart people who only hang out with other smart people are often puzzled like that.
The best unexpected outcome of working in K-12 education was learning how isolated I'd made myself, intelligence-wise. Now I've broken out of that isolation, and when I think about how to make the world a better place I think about the world and not just the world of smarty smart-pants.
That's applicable to half the threads around here. When people estimate other people, they often project their own minds as the template. But people are very different, and we're a particular tail end distribution.
I had a similar immediate reaction to EY's quote. Fix the story? For who? For what purpose? For us, the 0,1% tail of the distribution? The smarty smart pants adults?
Seems like Lucas went for two audiences - children, who want black and white, and morally retarded adults impressed by the moralizing point/counterpoint of Luke/Obi Wan.
Also, because you're clever means everyone else must be stupid.
(note: may not be a 100% effective theory)