Status Updates From Ensaio sobre a Lucidez

…the safest way of categorizing people is not by dividing them up into the stupid and the clever, but into the clever and the too clever, with the stupid, we can do what we like, with the clever, the trick is to get them on our side, whereas the too clever, even when they’re on our side, are still intrinsically dangerous…

This book is great so far. Confirmation bias acknowledged, as it is convincingly reinforcing one of my deepest held beliefs: Power over others is a disgusting thing, and anybody who pursues it should be banished from society.