Welcome to Litsy!

The new issues have to do with how intelligence uses information, or, more accurately, how intelligence and other fact-based analysis will fare in a world in which even a sophisticated society like our own is trending toward decision making anchored on a priori, near-instinctive narratives—decision making based on that which can be made popular or widely held rather than on that which is objectively true.

Did you know that in the movie “Argo“, Ben Affleck played Tony Mendez?

In real life, Mendez was a master of disguise during his career in the CIA. I just wonder what stories he can't tell because those stories have got to be another blockbuster movie or two!

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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

I remember reading this heart-wrenching story about Charlie Gordon with my 8th graders. It was first published as a short story and then a novel and then made into a movie. There was never a dry eye in the room after finishing this one. 😢

I had high hopes that this was going to be a fun and light read. Ding dong, I was wrong. Do you think you‘re superior to other members of the animal kingdom? Read this and wish you were someone‘s pet chicken. It didn‘t make me cry, but now I‘m more envious of Wednesday All-Kitty seen here.

As a psychologist I often wonder by what standards do we have the right to judge others with our IQ, personality, emotional, among others the test to judge IQ are and have been proven to be biased so how can anyone consider them valid, but we do still use other test we need to change the standardization of testing and judging specifically children tests 🙌🏽

This was an interesting novel focusing on a young mentally disabled person who undergoes surgery to become “smart”. Although he does become smarter, he also becomes less happy and focused more on the way people perceive him and how successful he is. 4/5

#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

📙 The Giver by Lois Lowry

📕 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

📘 Blindness by Jose Saramago

What a rollercoaster of a book. The ups and downs and emotional upheaval that this story demands is not something I am used to in the multitude of literature I have absorbed over the years. I have never found myself having genuine pity for a character in a while as I have in Charlie Gordon‘s plight. A wonderful story that will assist the reader to see the benefit of being kind to your fellow man and brother as blessings are not congruent.