Rick and Morty: The World Hates Smart People 

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“It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” - Bill Murray

Jery's ability to be happy and content with life is literally the embodiment of the phrase "ignorance is bliss"

I think some people pretend to be less intelligent than they really are as to not offend their friends or to seem more relatable. And it creates a conflict in their mind because it's a form of rejection when you get down to the source

"so is being brilliant just the curse of being aware of everything thats wrong without having any power to change it?" thats a good explanation for why a shit ton of smart people are depressed

Sad Truth: A lot of people, who are actually Jery, think they are Rick.

honesty dose not equal cruelty. and cruelty does not equal intelligence.

It's not being smart that makes the world hate you, it's telling people what they need to hear VS what they want to hear.

Rick is jealous of Jerry's ability to just exist in their world without hating it or himself. Rick is incapable of Jerry's relative blissful ignorance

'the more you know, the less others are able to relate to you, but the more you'll be able to relate to everyone else'

"Wow, you're really mature for your age." "Thanks, it's because of the trauma."

I’m not the smartest person. I have realized that the more I expand my world view, become accepting of other people’s thoughts and lifestyles and start to connect the dots between religion, science, math, philosophy etc. the more people around me seem to distance themselves. I feel more connected to them, but they feel less connected to me. Just going down the path of trying to understand the universe we live in is lonely. I’ve started to dislike small talk and rather converse over more complex topics. Not to argue not to win but to continue to expand my world view. But it seems most people would rather talk about the weather than global warming or the kardashian rather than the impact bad role models have on society.

“i’m not smart. i don’t know enough to understand the universe, but i understand enough to be sad“

Tons of people think they’re intelligent or want to be. That’s why they dislike _actual_ intelligent people, because it undermines their deluded self-image. The ego does not like its own lies and illusions to be dispelled.

The dunning-Krueger effect is strong in these comments

I don’t usually leave comments, but this was a seriously interesting, thought-provoking, and well put-together video. Kudos to the creators.

Nobody likes a know it all but everyone wants to be one.

"We are all puppets, but I'm the only one who can see the strings"

"Once a mind gets used to seeing the truth it can't go back to sleep" lol

Idiocracy: The only movie that started out as a comedy, but ended up as a documentary. Ignorance is bliss to the unawakened, but hell to those that are enlightened.

Society doesn’t tolerate people who can’t or won’t socialize. The truth that people will often find in the workplace is that employers prioritize is your ability to get along and cooperate to work as a team. One of the reasons Rick is so miserable, is because he often only cares about himself and refuses to be a team player. We see Rick at his happiest when he is working as a team with his grandkids.

No one is commenting what needs to be commented, that the material on Nietzsche, while brief and elementary, was spot-on in terms of accuracy. 99.9% of the time Nietzsche is mentioned in a RU-vid video his philosophy is entirely misinterpreted or simplified, but the content presented in this video is correct and succinct. It makes me really happy to see this. Well done!

“Omg guys, did you know that people who think they’re smart aren’t actually smart? Lmao, couldn’t be me. I’m highly intelligent and I know that everyone else who says they’re intelligent are actually idiotic. Haha, I’m so enlightened guys” - literally everyone in this comment section

I love talking/ interacting with highly intelligent people. It is fascinating how some of them see the world in their day to day life. If they communicate well, its super interesting and most of the time I can learn something too.

School is not a place for smart people. It's so true, it's terrifying.

This is the first time i've seen nihilism as accurately represented. Good job guys. The universe may be devoid of meaning but that doesnt mean we cannot generate it

"When smart people get happy they stop recognizing themselves." I felt that.

Somebody told me once that, "intelligence comes with a price." I believe him.

The worst feeling in the world is having knowledge but no power.

Everyone in the comments: "This is so relatable omg I'm one of the smart ones x3"

Rick's trouble doesn't come from him being a genius but rather from him being a childish narcissist.

“Be Careful Chasing Demons, lest you become one yourself, for when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazed back”

I hate the fact that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am.

This is the over-analysis of rick and morty that we all wanted/needed

It's a bit like knowing exactly what is wrong and exactly how to fix it, but no one will listen and you don't have the resources to do it yourself. It's like watching the train you are on go wildly out of control, but the emergency brake is in another car you don't have access to, and no one else wants to slow down.

I 100% believe you not only CAN be nice AND smart, but that it's pretty simple once you realize that more often than not it's smart to be nice. Just kind of removes altruism from the equation.

"smart" by itself is a vague concept. There are many types of intelligence. However, awareness and perception do pave your road ahead

"When smart people get happy they stop recognizing themselves." I have seen this happen WAY too frequently.

I appreciate this insightful analysis! I want to emphasize, though, that the character of Rick is regarded as a “dick” by others not because he’s smart, but because he tramples on every relationship in his life. A person with truly broad and deep intelligence would understand that human beings have evolved as social animals and are therefore governed by certain principles of social interaction. Violate those principles and you will be hated. Leonardo da Vinci was arguably one of the most massively intelligent persons ever born. Observers described him as courteous and reserved. He might not have been understood, but nobody called him a dick. Well, this series is comedy and has to be edgy, so it’s great. But I wish to remind us that being brilliant is not synonymous with being hated.

Thank you for the concept of "universe meat", my perceptions will never be the same again.

Not being “smart”, I think it’s about aware people. Who know the truth and who point it out. People just don’t want to hear the truth

"Lost status" = Rick being held accountable for dragging his unwilling grandson to dangerous places. Haha

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” -Socrates

Sometimes I feel like I’m a Rick, other days I’m sadly Jerry

wish this had gone a bit more into what therapy actually is and how it actually helps people to refute rick’s worldview a little more. there’s NOTHING comfortable about good therapy (other than hopefully the rapport between yourself and your counselor). therapy is supposed to make you confront the emotions and events that make you uncomfortable, and about integrating and transforming that discomfort into growth, healthy development, and *mastery of your own universe*. rick can’t be the master of anything by continuing to drown his inner world with alcohol and run away from all of his problems. sounds like a slave to me

It’s sad how people hate people who are genuinely themselves, open minded people, who want to walk a different path from others. Optimistic people,kind people. It’s depressing.

"Intelligent people are more likely to consume alcohol." That's it..!!!

???:The World Hates Smart people Rick:Yeah Its called Jealousy, Welcome To The Real World Genius

i think that rick is jealous of jerry for the ways his level of intelligence or lack thereof allows him to be happy with his life while rick has to go above and beyond to feel something

To be honest the movie idiocracy is an accurate depiction humanity's true future

i think the actual point of it all has gone over everyone’s heads. rick is not being rewarded for being smart, he’s being punished for being arrogant and cruel. it would be like saying being old is being rewarded because rick gets punished despite being old. not the point

The world doesn't hate smart people, but a lot of people do dislike arrogance and condescending behavior.

Rick doesn't lack emotional intelligence. He's smart enough to know his feelings can be his weakness because he cares so much. Superman has kryptonite. Rick has family. It's called 'Cognitive Dissonance.'

I love so much Rick analysis especially when it’s from such a great channel.

This also makes sense as to why a lot of psychologists and - especially - philosophers are seen as quite depressed individuals.

This is genuinely educative. It is amazing that you used used a fictional character and find almost all the material you needed.

Why do “smart” people also have to lack emotional intelligence?

This wideo is 20 minutes long, but it feels like eternity.

I have a degree in philosophy and yet this video made me realize the fact and truth that has escaped me for so long. And that fact is, I need to give in to the universe. My laziness often is rooted in the fact that most tasks bore me unless I view them as a challenge. I've always opted to outsmart my way into shortcuts, especially in school. But now that I've graduated and actually cannot outsmart the simple fact that I have to do my work its been stressing me and causing me discomfort. I just want to learn all day. But we are slaves to the universe as much as we are a masters of it. We're in a bargain with the universe, there is give and take. It's given us life, and in return we must be its meat to eat for a good portion of our lives. I submit. And I'm okay with that. Because it is truth.

this video will be a hit with edgy 15 year olds

Rick is smart and cruel, and he doesnt have to be. That's why people dont like him. And even then you just have to look at the show's real world fans to see how many people STILL like him. In contrast, take a character like the doctor from Doctor Who. Intelligent and well-loved because he's kind

There are so many that confuse knowledge with intelligence.

it's tough sometimes.. intelligence is an experience that many have to enjoy alone.. I would love to share this vid with someone but I don't know many who would enjoy it...

How can you not be depressed when you see the world destroying itself and have no power to stop it. When the right choices are seen a evil by society.

Interesting theory about Rick, but his genius as well as other geniuses portrayed in movies and TV is a fictional brand of smarts. In real life no human being could know the entire universe. Everything new we learn about the universe opens up a thousand new questions. This means that truly genius people are constantly being humbled in their inability to keep up. Also it’s said that someone who truly knows a subject on a genius level knows it to the point that they could break it down to a level they could make a child understand. So the idea that a person could be so smart that they just can’t explain it to the peons of the world is a myth.

Intelligence isn’t being a Rick, it’s knowing you’re a Jerry.

Are all of the takes videos this good? I'm impressed.

This actually helped my depressed ass more than I thought it would.

Just 'cause you're smart doesn't mean you have the right to be a jerk. You need some emotional intelligence too. Also, this might seem weird but I personally don't think that saying the truth is always the smartest thing to do. There are times were it is necessary, but if it going to severily hurt someone, a little lie or an omision might be OK. EDIT: So you guys have been writing a lot of comments about the lying thing and some of them are actually pretty valid. So let me clarify. Maybe you are right. It can be better to say the truth. However the way you deliver it can really matter. You don't need to lie, but there are times where it is preferable to explain the truth with care to others.

Please make another video like this, but longer! This is AWESOME! The research dvt must have taken long

"Rick and Morty shows us that it doesn't pay to be smart". Na chick, social media does that.

I don't think that it's being smart that causes someone to be miserable, it's: a) Assuming that other people are not intelligent because they haven't sought out the knowledge that they have. So they begin to resent and dislike other people based on that assumption and they feel alienated from other people when they don't have to. b) Overthinking

It's not his intelligence, it's rather the philosophy in which he lives. In his mind he uses science to justify his belief in why nobody else matters.

5:07 As a smart person, I can say this is a huge misrepresentation I face constantly. Therapy isn't boring because it's mundane (in that it is talking about normal people things and they don't interest me), but much to the contrary it is boring because it's mundane (in that it is talking about normal people things that I have already tackled in far less time than normal people take to tackle these issues, leading me to get bogged down in other people's slow comprehension of my much more rapid progress through these challenges). All too often my struggles are that I recognize a problem that most people face, but that very few of them recognize; and all too often others mistakenly believe my problems to be similar problems more commonly experienced by normal people, problems which I have overcome long ago. It is true that being intelligent will make you less satisfied with the world. But being less intelligent doesn't make the world better, it just makes you less aware of how much it hurts you in ways that it never had to. You're still hurt, you just have nothing to be angry at. I wouldn't give up my intelligence for anything. Life is like getting beat up by an invisible hand. Intelligence is like being able to see the hand, and knowing that the only way to defend against it is with the collective effort of a lot of people, most of whom refuse to believe that the hand exists. Recommended reading: Flowers for Algernon

Bravo to whomever wrote this. Very well thought out analysis and edit.

This is similar to Crime and Punishment where Raskolnikov had a theory of ordinary and extraordinary people.

I really appreciated this analysis of the show and these themes! It’s one of my favorites, but isn’t always as easy to dissect like that. Great vid!!

I literally have no friends and people only contact me to solve their problems. It’s depressing nothing to be proud of. Life is temporarily fun.

"In light of all of this, is it even worth going through all the trouble of thinking deeply about existence?" The problem is we don't really get to pick and choose how are brains thinks, nor the conclusions it comes to. Sure, we can distract ourselves and even numb ourselves with drugs & alcohol but that only works to a point, and for so long

I'm a gifted musician who hides my abilities from the world. People often think I'm slow. Until the day comes that they see that I am the opposite (at least in this arena). Then they treat me as foe. "They hate you if you're clever, but they despise a fool' - John Lennon

I wanted to comment, but then I realized would say nothing new, so I wholeheartedly recommend Renegade's Cut very recent video on the same topic, even if just for comparison.

This is an amazing deep dive. Well done!

Quality video! Good Job! Subscribed

To me being smart is the ability to judge the level of comprehension of people you’re dealing with so you can place yourself one step upper and so you can sort of dominate intellectually in any situation. If not intelligence itself I believe it’s at least of form of intelligence, a more social one.

I guess we’re just going to ignore Beethoven, Mozart, Tesla, Einstein, and so much more intelligent individuals that we put on pedestals

Thanks for the video.. It was amazing!.

Excellent analysis.. My lord.. You mentioned Beyond Good and Evil too?? The most underrated channel despite its size and highly liked videos. Thanks for the fun video!

I love this show. It shows me time and time again that nihilism isn't the way. Even though we're all insignificant, there's peace in knowing that and making the best of this shitty life.

You don't have to be smart to be evil, but you need to be smart to be effective.

This is genuinely a great video & analysis

Title:"World hates smart people" Entire comment section:"I can relate to that"

The thing about him "losing" to Jerry in season 3, is ironic for two reasons. One: Jerry was never fighting to begin with. And two: Rick was out smarted by EMOTIONAL intelligence. Beth was terrified. She did not know if she was real or not, and if she was just a side mom to one who abandoned her children, who could be destroyed and replaced upon "waking up." When she went to Rick about this, he flippantly told her "whatever" and reminded her if she was a clone, she was dead upon becoming self aware. This made her spiral more and panic, and cry. And Rick never cared. Jerry on the other hand, when she came to her just.... sat her down and talked to her. She offered him FULL RANGE of her body to use her until he was sure and all he did was tell her when he fell for her...and the only thing he took was a small, panicked, peck on the lips. And it was through that she accepted that even though she did not know if she was "the original." She was still alive. And she mattered and was loved/ cared for. Which is what she needed. Jerry's ability to emphasize with Beth, listen to her and help find a solution to make her and the kids feel safe, brought the family back together. His time away from the family made him better. Him coming back has improved the family already. People hate Jerry and call him pathetic. But unlike Rick he has the ability to meet the emotional needs of those he loves. Being smart does not give you the excuse to be a bully. And Rick was abusive and a bully for too long.

One man's dumb person is another person's genius.

What’s with all the inspirational quotes here. This is a Rick and Morty video

Thankyou The Take you gave me a take that 2 Beths couldn't exist without Rick loving her/them.

'You matter so little that I like you.' I'm so glad I wasn't drinking something when I heard that line.

The age old adage “ignorance is bliss” is true. This is why parents try to keep their kids innocent for as long as possible.

this was amazing. absolutely loved it

“Gentlemen, there’s a solution here your not seeing”

I can't believe how well your words resonate to who I am. The struggle is real.