Of intellect.....

First rule of thumb, people are ignorant, when I say this I do not mean "aam aadmi", but as a term encompassing humanity, this is avidya. Second rule of thumb, every one considers him to be smart and others to be ignorant, this is garv.

This is not a calamity as it seems, machinations of life are for major part guided by vagaries of genetic make up and any importance of role of reason is mostly overstated and probably human delusion, opiate of our times.

Then intellect has actually less to do with knowledge than a drive irrational from point of individual (but makes sense from point of genes), people think beyond what is absolutely necessary for daily wants of life because they are compelled by their genes and triggered by pressure of social environment.

The interesting thing is not what this thinking achieve, which again is a matter decided by the prevalent contours of society, but how this thinking arises.

A thinker is deviant, if one presumes man is guided by reason, he is not, for he is just a tool for genes, just as reason is tool for Man. It is a fallacy to think man is a creation of this reason, yet people make this, which gives rise to paradox where there should be none.