Midwit

At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.

A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.

Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment.

Online, people make fun of midwits with a specific meme format: an IQ bell curve, with a character placed at each extreme and one above the bulge in the middle. […] One example of the midwit trap is investing. Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions.

It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports.