[Chickensoup]

I don’t the “elite” that run things are particularly bright, just particularly hungry for power. If they were particularly bright, they’d see the emptiness of what they desire.

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That hunger for power is a particular factor of intelligence. You are mistaking moral intelligence for IQ. They have nothing to do with each other.

[Lurker]

“You are mistaking moral intelligence for IQ. They have nothing to do with each other.”

Well said.

L

[miss marmelstein]

A person without “moral intelligence” is not awfully bright to me. Look at somebody like Tony Podesta - rich, successful, corrupt and with truly execrable taste in art. Yet, Murray might consider him loaded with cognitive intelligence.

[rightwingcrazy]

“That hunger for power is a particular factor of intelligence.”

What an odd thing to say. A particularly intelligent person would inclined, I think, to question the merit of his hungers. Otherwise, he lets himself become a slave to them. How bright is that?