The Pillar

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Although this is a forum about world politics and global issues, all important and intelligent topics, I am still looking for something better.

You see, it is very difficult to learn anything other than 'the average stupidity of people' from stupid people, and so I want to find somewhere that I can bounce ideas off of people, and hopefully learn something new.

I honestly don't mean to be rude or condescending to anyone. As an example, I was looking at a thread about transhumanism, in which, for starters, the poster turned out to be promoting a fascist society lead by cyborgs. And as I scrolled down to the first post, I found it was someone inquiring about the possibility of laser penises in the future. (I have never had to use the plural of penis before...)

Now I understand the value of a good joke, but I have found that there are very few cases in which I read something insightful, and again this is not an insult to the people on this forum, I just feel I need a larger percentage of smarter people in my daily conversing.

And so I ask, is there anywhere I can go, forum wise, to talk with people who can hold an interesting conversation with a minimum of 'laser penis' talk? Does anyone know of other forums, or somewhere on here that I can go?