LilMsLadyPoet13 Dec 2005

Please do! I do not believe good fortune (ie: wealth, money) is the Cause of intellegence. I couldn't disagree more!(If you mean:I have had the good fortune to be raised in a family with good fortune and money, therefore it has afforded me an intellgence above average.")
(If you mean good fortune to mean fate, genes..then yes...as in: "I have had the good fortune to be born into an intellgent family.") That staement would apply.
Bad fortune is the cause, means, and ways to gaining experience and intellegence. When one fails, stumbles, and questions, then one learns something new. (The exception being those who literally live in a survivalist mode, as they have no time for thought past the food or need they must procure for themselves for the day.)
Good fortune (ie: money, wealth) pays for EDUCATION (the generically produced, propoganda-laden one sponsored by the collective forces that be), but money can not buy, nor breed intellgence!
Comfort, via good fortune, does not compell one to investigation, experimentation, innovation, invention...etc.
When all is said and done, genes play the bigger part in intellegence than any other one marker. And anyone who is inherantly intellegent will be driven to educate one's self.That drive and curiousity, being a distinct marker of that intellegence.
I am of the firm belief that educating a man past his intellegence level is a dangerous thing. It creates monsters, who know they are given the position of power that surpasses their inborn capacity and intellectual worth, they know that those under them many times are actually above them....not a good thing...they become caustic, to themselves, and to anyone around them who hold the real power of intellgence. Ever read Fountain Head, or Atlas Shrugged? Point made.