Gadkari is in the news again! There is nothing new in that. But, there is something odd about why he in the news. For saying, as quoted in The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gadkari-regrets-remarks/article4070610.ece?homepage=true):
“…if we can compare the IQ level of Swami Vivekananda and that of Dawood Ibrahim, then it cold (sic) have been the same.”
Is there anything wrong in that? I do not think so. I am neutral on Vivekananda, for the simple reason I have not read him; again, for the simple reason, I have not felt the compulsion to read him.
I have a book entitled What is Intelligence? an anthology edited by Dr. Jean Khalfa. In this, at least half a dozen different kinds of intelligences, including infant, mathematical, musical types, have been discussed. I feel that the editor could have added “spiritual intelligence” and “crime intelligence”. Then, Gadkari would not have been in the news! He would have justified his statement as a comparative study of these two types of intelligence!
I am no apologist for Gadkari (God forbid!) but read what he said in the next sentence, as quoted:
“But Vivekananda used it in nation building, brotherhood and spiritualism, while Dawood used that in excelling in crime world.”
No equivalence is established between Vivekananda and Dawood. None. It is not Gadkari’s fault that some idiot long ago reified intelligence, the aspect of human mind that refuses to be reified, and created problems not only for Gadkari, but for me too.
I am rated a moron, but I think I am an idiot.
IQ is not intelligent enough to rate me correctly. And, it is now posing problems for Gadkari. Isn’t it time we discarded these terms, born out of idiocy?
Raghuram Ekambaram
“…if we can compare the IQ level of Swami Vivekananda and that of Dawood Ibrahim, then it cold (sic) have been the same.”
Is there anything wrong in that? I do not think so. I am neutral on Vivekananda, for the simple reason I have not read him; again, for the simple reason, I have not felt the compulsion to read him.
I have a book entitled What is Intelligence? an anthology edited by Dr. Jean Khalfa. In this, at least half a dozen different kinds of intelligences, including infant, mathematical, musical types, have been discussed. I feel that the editor could have added “spiritual intelligence” and “crime intelligence”. Then, Gadkari would not have been in the news! He would have justified his statement as a comparative study of these two types of intelligence!
I am no apologist for Gadkari (God forbid!) but read what he said in the next sentence, as quoted:
“But Vivekananda used it in nation building, brotherhood and spiritualism, while Dawood used that in excelling in crime world.”
No equivalence is established between Vivekananda and Dawood. None. It is not Gadkari’s fault that some idiot long ago reified intelligence, the aspect of human mind that refuses to be reified, and created problems not only for Gadkari, but for me too.
I am rated a moron, but I think I am an idiot.
IQ is not intelligent enough to rate me correctly. And, it is now posing problems for Gadkari. Isn’t it time we discarded these terms, born out of idiocy?
Raghuram Ekambaram
