Whatever, Reader

As an elementary school rascal in Upland, California, I attended the G.A.T.E. program—gifted and talented education. Classes centered around developing pattern identification skills to better draw connections between disparate things or ideas. Was I proud? You bet I was. A young kid among the local intellectual elite. Here, though, I want to write about why my opinion on that has changed. Intelligence isn't an apex trait, just another attribute of the complete human. How do you define intelligence? Street smarts? Ethical reasoning? Imagination? Appeal? Wit?  The geniuses of art make their messages easy to digest. They don't have to be complicated, and even when they are, they provoke emotion more than they bewilder. Albrecht D ü rer's symbolism stirred questions, while Jackson Pollack's splatter paintings introduced a whirlwind in which viewers could find their own place.  Did D ü rer predict the Krampus? In Room 237 , a documentary that explores Stanley Kub