&gt; I don&#x27;t think our democratic society is very good for gifted&#x2F;talented people.<p>I think it is better for gifted&#x2F;talented people than any alternative anyone has proposed would be if an attempt were made to implement it with real people in the real world.<p>&gt; Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chimpanzees insisting that everybody are equal, and threatening violent sanctions whenever anybody behaves otherwise.<p>I&#x27;m a &quot;gifted&#x2F;talented&quot; person by most standards (by IQ test scores, PSAT&#x2F;SAT&#x2F;LSAT all at the highest reported point in the distribution -- 99 or 99.9 percentile, depending on what the particular test reported at the time -- etc.)<p>And, frankly, I find it quite likely that anyone who thinks that the relationship between humans and chimpanzees is even a remotely appropriate analogy for the relationship between gifted and talented people at the ~91% percentile and the rest of society is someone who is inclined to behave in a way such that forceful sanctions are appropriate and necessary.