[LS]

Let me urge everyone on my list, if you haven’t done so, get Charles Murray’s book, “Coming Apart.” Merely the “bubble test” he has in there is worth the book. Give that to your friends. I think they would find it fun, and probably revealing.

This book shows how we have created these “superzips”-—zip codes that are entirely dominated by Ivy League grads and people in the top 5% of American wealth holders, and they do not see ANYONE else in their daily lives except to order a coffee or drop off dry cleaning.

[bagster]

...they do not see ANYONE else in their daily lives except to order a coffee or drop off dry cleaning.

They drop off their own dry cleaning?

[Bloodandgravy]

The metropolitan elites and wannabes are like the Eloi, from The Time Machine, and the rest of us are Morlocks, doing the dirty work.

[SueRae]

Thanks for the book tip. i’ll bet I’m not far from one...

[Sgt_Schultze]

Thanks Larry. I never saw that but went looking. Here's a link to PBS where the online version of this bubble test resides.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2

[Chode]

i got a 58

[Rusty0604]

Thanks

[EDINVA]

I live in the vicinity of several “super zips” and have family/friends of liberal/progressive persuasions who are residents therein, all fans of open borders. I’ve noted here and elsewhere that they live several zips away from those who come to those elite parishes only to mow their lawns and clean their toilets.

[DoodleBob]

There was a recent post on social sciences, that featured this brilliant give and take involving a Harvard faculty member critical of Charles Murray from the original article, that is worth reprinting. While I frequently use this to ridicule the "certainty of SCIENCE", I believe it also highlights the zip code point as well:

"so why should we let someone teach social science that we know to be wrong in our social science courses?"

Because it is possible that you are wrong.
Science is not mathematics. Newtonian physics was wrong. And social science is a further three rungs down in certainty from science.

Your level of certainty and arrogance about what can be said, and probably thought, smacks of religion, and not science. This is a political religion that permeates academia at the moment. And which I am fairly sure you will swear does not infect you, while the rest of us can see the symptoms quite plainly.

Only religions ban heretics from speaking because of the wrong-think they might cause. Real science loves a good heretic. In fact, honestly, the entire goal of science is to be a heretic. To have an idea that no other person ever had. Science is the pretty much the antithesis of your thought-police approach.

And most of academia used to be the antithesis of your thought police approach as well, until the religion of leftism took it over, with the direct help of people like you.

[djstex]

Thank you for the ping.

[Chickensoup]

Excellent book from this playful brilliant man

[Grampa Dave]

Let me urge everyone on my list, if you haven’t done so, get Charles Murray’s book, “Coming Apart.” Merely the “bubble test” he has in there is worth the book. Give that to your friends. I think they would find it fun, and probably revealing.

Dang you!

I ordered his book via Kindle and spent most of yesterday reading it and finished this morning.