Are Public Officials Pressured To Appear More Intelligent...

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because of the internet and social networking, Twitter and all that? Once upon a time a politician or any celebrity could say something totally off the wall or inaccurate and some tabloid show might catch it and give a little bit of flack and that was the end of it. Now, with the internet, suddenly, millions of people are commenting on how lazy and unintelligent public figures are when they slip up and make mistakes. Do you think, because of the internet, being a public figure is more difficult than it's ever been in the past because of the intense scrutiny and immediate feedback on a grand scale?

Maybe they have -look- intelligent and -sound- intelligent but they are as base, stupid, short-sighted, greedy and dysfunctional as they always have been. To desire a political life is a symptom of a serious illness.

ruveyn

Public figures are under a lot of pressure because the common man is (to put it midly) deluded. Ask an average man if he's smarter than George W. Bush and see what his answer will be. Bush has a university degree and an IQ within the 95. percentile, but he's not particularly charismatic--and wasn't a good president by any means.

Public authority figures have to take the blame when someone below them f*cks up.

One day, when everyone has a microchip implanted in their brain. the public figure will not fall into this trap because his chip will keep him ahead of the game.

Of course not. Politicians are now all about appealing to the masses of whom are of lesser intelligence. This is most prominent around election time. They have to speak in a language that their most critical voters would understand.

In simplest terms, the dumber voters hold more value to a politician than an intelligent voter only because the former greatly outnumbers the latter.