[andrewflnr]

De-emphasizing intellect is a far cry from pretending to be stupid. In fact, character matters at least as much as intelligence in real life. What use is intelligence if you don't have the character to execute when you have to do something hard? And of course, ethics provide the end goals to which intelligence is applied.

[stephencanon]

So your contention is that character and ethics are exclusive of intelligence? If not, why would one need to feign stupidity in order to project character?

[andrewflnr]

No, that's a preposterous straw man I'm not going to dignify with a serious reply. Read what I actually said.