WTF is the deal with smart people?

I dont know whats the big deal with being so smart. In fact I dont know whats the big rush for people to emulate smart people? I remember how they looked at class toppers in school, like they were some different kind of species with more strands in their DNA. Even 7-8 year old kids would write a will to sit next to their class toppers, spend time with them, study with them. I didnt get it then, I dont get it now. Why is everyone so crazy about people who are smart? Do they really add any value to the society by just being smart? Take a look around you, most things you see are born out of common sense, not a cause of brilliant cell rich cerebrum's work. The majority of the world is trying their best to *become* smart but no one thinks about 'what then'. What do smart people do?

Cause thats the root of the problem really. We all want to become smart, thats it. What then is not a question often asked. We blame it on the education system but the education system is just satisfying the needs of the society. Society wants smart people, since not everyone can be born smart, we try to engineer smart people and end up creating a machinery that produces mediocre people who follow a set of rules in their quest to become smart, strangulating all reason why they are doing it in the first place and killing whatever acumen they had for something else in the process. In effect the society loses common sense and gains smartness, which as you would recall has helped us very little.

Why society wants smart people is a question still unanswered. I mean id rather want hard working, honest, funny people around me. They'd help. I dont know what to do with a smart person though.

I think a group of people decided long back that they'd create a restricted group of smart individuals. With time it became so exclusive that people wanted to join it. It was the second chapter of Tom Sawyer - Whitewashing a fence, at work. In order for people to feel a craving for a particular thing, its only necessary for the thing to be made difficult to achieve.

Hence we sit for tough exams, hence we buy expensive stuff, hence we always have a crush on someone who is way out of our league, hence we spend our lives trying to attain, difficult to attain things, that once we achieve look or seem rather ordinary, but we keep doing that.' Why', doesnt even cross our mind. because our common sense that asks such common questions as 'why' and 'how' , was carefully artificially removed from our smart selves by a network of brain sucking bodies of knowledge.

Thats such a fucking sad life.