I guess McConnell and Ryan are at the head of the cognitive elite but they just seem like assholes to me.
The last two chapters discuss the morality of managing a culture with many different kinds of people and how to make it work well, as it once did in our great-great’s times.
Yes, we need to really think about the cognitive elite. Give me a day at the special Olympics over a day with McConnell and Ryan. I’ve changed a LOT since I read the Bell Curve. I spend my days with a genius IQ and a low IQ person and I can’t say one is necessarily “better” than the other either under Gd or just to hang with.
Intelligence is never any guarantee of wisdom.
Or virtue, for that matter.