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I should probably have given as background that I don't believe that anyone is more or less intelligent than anyone else, including people with severe learning disabilities, so in a sense I think that the overall idea of 'intelligence' is nonsense. However, there are certain ways in which people create the impression of being 'intelligent', and my post was mainly aimed at explaining how that illusion arises in Johnson's case.
Oliver Schick
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None of that really says anything about his intelligence being 'supposed' or a 'myth'. I don't think many people would claim he's a genius, but in the broad general sense one talks about people being 'intelligent', he definitely is. This is especially apparent when juxtaposed with Trump, who just bloody isn't.
Not that any of what you said there is wrong of course.