I remember a scene from a movie… I think Lightning Jack (1994).
Cuba Gooding Jr is serving an illiterate white man. He’s mute and the white guy talks really loud to him. So he writes down on a piece of paper that he’s mute, not deaf.
The white guy gets upset because he can’t read. Another white man, the boss, lies and says that the writing thanked him for his business and hoped he had a good day.
To be smarter in order to prevent bad things from happening seems to me to be in the mindset that we have to maintain dominance or bad things will happen.
To be above and look down and have the ability to use force to correct.
But what happens when we see a bunch of different people, groups, believe the same thing about one another?
Not good things.