Friday, February 20, 2026

Midwits and maintainers

 


Overheard on a very controversial blog (I disavow...disavow...disavow). 

>>>The fundamental challenge is that neither midwits nor maintainers are capable of seeing problems coming from down the road. Their perspective is always a limited one of the last 15-20 years. If something hasn’t caused a problem yet, that means it never will. 

>>>The maintainers ignore everything but their day-to-day responsibilities and the midwits devote themselves to aggressively attacking every problem solver or genius who is concerned about the problems the midwits can’t yet perceive.

1 comment:

  1. People staring at their iPhones while crossing the street can't even see the car traffic barreling toward them! But you got me there, had to look up "midwits" as a definition of intelligence. I am so glad I went to elementary school in So. Cal during the 1960's. Turned out the schools then were in the 90 percentile comparative to the national curve. A wise person will never say they are "wise" any more than an enlightened one would say "I am enlightened!"

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