Interesting + Bizarre = VAS

From wikipedia.org, Mensa's mission is to:
1. "to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity;"
2. "to encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence;"
3. "and to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members."

After reading what Mensa is about, I grew to have a positive attitude towards this organization. It supports people who have high IQ's. It's a society which would have similar ideals to magnet schools, gifted student programs, and the like. And those institutions are very normal and a part of American and European society. They're for the smart kids...

The book, VAS, points out something criminal about Mensa members. British Mensa members, being so intelligent, are asked how to improve society (129). In 1962, 47% of them say it's a good idea to kill "sufficiently unhealthy or subnormal infants"(130). Further, in 1994, Mensa members want to get rid of "homeless, retarded and elderly" (130). How absurd is that?

So now I'm confused. If people this intelligent can think such evil things, where is society headed? I'm coming to really dislike this idea of eugenics because it says if you're not one of the smart ones you should be "dead" (sterilized).

How do Square and Circle fit in? Is he stupid and insignificant in society, as seen by Circle? Or is it another matter altogether?

Your thoughts are not YOUR thoughts

It was suggested in class that we take some time to look at our thoughts.

Some of my thoughts are “my” thoughts. They are from “my” life. They are “my” memories. But then there are thoughts that are “others” thoughts. Do you ever have a song stuck in your head? Is that song a thought? I would say it is. If we are thinking about it, it is a thought. What about the magazine article that you just read? Or that movie you just watched? We also get imprinted with the thoughts of our family. All of these outside influences become a part of our stream of thought. I would say that these are society’s thoughts.

I believe that we think our own thoughts but we also think the thoughts of others. That is one of the main reasons I rarely watch TV, especially the news. If you listen to something over and over again, it starts to become a part of your thought process. And then you identify with that thought so much, you start to think it is your own thought.

I think the different typefaces in Vas represent these various thoughts, the thoughts from Square and also from his society.