Post by Dan Ryan on Feb 11, 2013 16:57:06 GMT -5
John Nash suppressed normal urges both to belong to the society around him at school and to be looked up to. He seemed indifferent to all that, but his subsequent mental breakdown indicated a strong repression of natural and individual instincts. When he met and married a beautiful woman, he retroactively was flooded with the realization that he should have had all that in high school, just like the star athletes. Not being used to material pleasures and rewards, he couldn't cope with it happening all at once. His Nobel winning theory, at least as expressed in the movie, was actually a reaction trying to convince himself that everybody should settle for second best. He got the blonde and didn't know what to do with her.
The purpose of this forum goes beyond the movie and the actual biography of Nash, whose particular manifestation of Prometheus Bound is also expressed in different but equally destructive ways in all High IQs. Because, from childhood on, America doesn't treat superior students the same way it treats superior athletes, people with High IQs are discouraged from developing themselves and run high risks to their personalities and personal lives if they submit to the program imposed upon them. No normal person would be inspired by the unsatisfying and too long-term incentives given the talented. A seed doesn't grow in sand. The talent pool has turned into a puddle.
The purpose of this forum goes beyond the movie and the actual biography of Nash, whose particular manifestation of Prometheus Bound is also expressed in different but equally destructive ways in all High IQs. Because, from childhood on, America doesn't treat superior students the same way it treats superior athletes, people with High IQs are discouraged from developing themselves and run high risks to their personalities and personal lives if they submit to the program imposed upon them. No normal person would be inspired by the unsatisfying and too long-term incentives given the talented. A seed doesn't grow in sand. The talent pool has turned into a puddle.