Re: So this is off the charts

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:29:36 -0600, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

The motivation was

His adult life has been about selling Snake Oil, and this does not
require abstract reasoning skills.

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"Being There" is a film about a man whose mind works like a
rudimentary A.I. program.

His mind has been supplied with a fund of simplistic generalizations
about the world, phrased in terms of the garden where he has worked
all his adult life. But because he presents himself as a man of good
breeding (he walks and talks like the wealthy older man whose house he
lived in, and wears the man's tailored suits) his simplicity is
mistaken for profundity, and soon he is advising presidents and
befriending millionaires.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-being-there-1979