Destroying the West with PC ambuscade

Washington Times ^ | Thursday, May 30, 2002 | Paul Craig Roberts

[JohnHuang2]

Does democracy undermine a country's future by shortening the time-preference of rulers? Does racial diversity produce conflict? Are America's "two greatest strengths" in fact the country's two greatest weaknesses?

This sixth and final in a series on America's imperiled future examines these questions in the light of two important new books.

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, May 30, 2002

Quote of the Day by semper_libertas

[truth_seeker]

For some powerful scholarly work about National IQs and the correlation to economic performance, go to

http://fp.rlynn.plus.com/

Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Lynn have written extensively about the subject ("IQ and the Wealth of Nations"). At the cited website, there is a great summary article.

It verifies and ties into "The Bell Curve" (Murray and Hernstein?).

In the context of todays' global situation, it is informative that arabs come in with IQs of about 85.

Fascinating stuff. Search Yahoo for: Tatu Vanhanen.

[tm61]

when some pc clown squawks about "our diversity is our stregnth", point out the fact that a prison population is very diverse but doesnt seem to add much else to society.

[wardaddy]

Good Work King!

I was going to post this one myself. I heard Liddy reading it on my way to work this morning. I too (like Liddy) am a bit ambivalent on this. I'm not as optimistic as Liddy though, I feel it will take an unimaginable cataclysm to get us off this destructive path. I had thought after Sept. 11th, that a tragedy of that sort would derail the monster of political correctness and it's patron saint: white guilt but I've lost hope in that.

I don't know of a time in history where so many folks have had such an insatiable need to feel good about themselves.

[wardaddy]

I agree with your comments but there is one caveat about relying too heavily on IQ demographics ethnically or racially: Most liberals I know are quite high in IQ. They lack fortitude in a proportionate manner to their lofty IQs. I've known a fair number of not terribly smart folks who were nonetheless quite wise and resolute and responsible.

I think the real issues are group culture and what timeline one's group occupies in the chronology of "civilization" as we know it. It is very easy to delineate from this. Not very PC of me I know but the results are all too ominous.