he IQ gap has emotional, cultural, and spiritual implications as well. If an idle mind is the Devil's playground, what happens in the mind that is idling at full speed? There is a darkness, a cynicism to youth culture-evident in music, language, and social life-that suggests sharp minds going unfulfilled, channeled instead into destructive or despairing nihilism. Without beliefs or ideals, having never been exposed to wisdom, meaning, or truth, the intelligence of many teens has nothing to work on, their searching intellects have nothing to think about, and they find themselves lost in the vast spaces of their minds.