Overcoming Intellect

The Intellect is the enemy of life. Paralysis instead of vitality. Reflection instead of action. So what's an intellectual who's seen through his intellect, who seeks a life to do?

You can't change your nature, but you can work with it, to make yourself natural - that is, natural as all but the intellectuals are - instinctive, intuitive, aggressive. A winner.

Keep your Intellect a secret, as politicians know to do, since the People hate the Elite. Men are threatened by Intellect. Women are repulsed by Intellect. Why suffer their slings? Socrates did martyrdom better than you ever could.

Read books, but mine them not for building blocks to add to your abstract/abtruse schema. Read books to gain the insights the practical man already knows. By painful effort you will learn what should go without saying (so no one told you) - how to live.

If you simulate the practical man long enough, you will become him, but possibly, possibly, an improved model, since consciousness of your deficiencies, maybe, will allow you to transcend not just the sub-normality of Intellect, but the normality of Common Sense.

That's the messianic hope. But on the everyday level, be satisfied with occasionally feeling human.