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dim wits or acceptable. Nothing wrong with that.

The higher than average intelligence of the midwit when mixed with intellectual insecurity, is the problem. It's cancerous . It destroys the host. (society).

*Midwit = higher than av IQ + intellectually insecure + v. high social skills = any ecosystem disaster and collapse.

*based on my observations of social, economic, and political movements over the last 2 millennia.
Accentuated in the last 5 decades due to the degradation of higher learning institutions...ie - They let in any idiots, nowadays (who then go on to take up positions of influence not commensurate with their competence)......