"The main strength of our species isn't that we're all really smart, it's that one really smart guy comes along once in a while and tames fire, invents the spear, invents pottery, invents calculus, etc, and the rest of us can learn from that person."

The spread of smarts (IQ?) is what works in our social species. Progress rests on our ongoing cultural store of knowledge, and individuals, no matter their IQ, are not pivotal in society's progress -- another individual will always come along who can see and voice it just as well.

The species, our society, move forward, the more we leave behind superficial and ideologically based rankings --and-- our pedestal obsessions.

We need to value everyone more.

"apparently I need to be a shit-ton clearer when posting on this site, because people here love to interpret things as negatively as possible so they can have a mental breakdown"

It's a big problem: things like people being unclear, people expecting everyone to have the same reference points, and people interpreting to fit their perspective. For example:

"Trade only in games / movies / music / books / etc that you can legally share with others. When media that can't be shared can't be sold ... that will be the end of piracy and a great day for all of humanity."

"When you talk about sharing, I know for a fact you're talking about copying and giving someone that copy so they don't have to pay for it"

I'd use a different word because calling someone ignorant is taken as an insult by the average person.

Are you misreading what he meant on purpose

"Seriously, this is all about cementing a communist regime and preventing armed rebellion by the people."

Left-wing social dictatorships, right-wing capitalistic dictatorships, maybe we need better analogies