Posted on 09/21/2022 5:02:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The emergence of a cognitive elite, and, for the first time in history, the almost total convergence of intellectuals with the financial elite explains the coming extinction of the middle class.
Nearly 30 years ago, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published “The Bell Curve,” which became notorious for its chapter that highlighted differences in IQ test results by race. But that controversy overshadowed the primary focus of the book, which was that the human race is dividing into a cognitive elite and everyone else.
In the book, the authors argue that for the first time in history, humans are far more likely to marry their intellectual equals. “As the century progressed,” they write, “the historical mix of intellectual abilities at all levels of American society thinned as intelligence rose to the top. The upper end of the cognitive ability distribution has been increasingly channeled into higher education, especially the top colleges and professional schools, thence into high-IQ occupations and senior managerial positions. The scattered brightest of the early twentieth century have congregated, forming a new class.”
Herrnstein and Murray went on to predict an alliance between the cognitive elite and the affluent, writing, “For most of the century, intellectuals and the affluent have been antagonists,” but that now, “the very bright have become much more uniformly affluent than they used to be while, at the same time, the universe of affluent people has become more densely populated by the very bright. Not surprisingly, the interests of affluence and the cognitive elite have begun to blend.”
Although parts of The Bell Curve have been hotly debated, these two predictions—the formation of a cognitive elite, and the alliance of the cognitive elite with the affluent—resonate strongly today. They explain one of the root causes of globalism. Herrnstein and Murray even predict the rise of “the custodial state,” which they define as “a high-tech and more lavish version of the Indian reservation for some substantial minority of the nation’s population, while the rest of America goes about its business.”
The problem with that prediction, however, is that it suggests America will divide into three classes: the cognitive elite and affluent class, the middle class, and a permanent underclass of the cognitively deficient, completely dependent on the “custodial state.” That would have been bad enough, but that’s not quite what is happening. Instead, the elites in America, joining with their counterparts in most of the rest of the developed world, are engineering a future where there will only be two classes: the elites and a permanent underclass.
Not everyone who is highly intelligent or independently wealthy embraces the extreme climate and equity agenda. Many still see that such a flawed agenda is bound to impoverish and embitter billions of people. While there are powerful incentives to go along, and powerful disincentives to resistance, minds can be changed. The prevailing consensus can be broken.
To avoid turning the vast majority of humanity into livestock, which is where we’re headed, requires presenting alternative scenarios. Appealing to those elites who retain a shred of common sense and common decency is not impossible. Protecting the planet and promoting fairness does not require rationing and racism. Elaborating on those basic facts may yet convince a critical mass of elites to change the course we’re on.
We have just become sheep to be sheared by the IRS.
As long as we remain unrepresented in Washington, the true American middle class is suffering, paying for the upper and the lower classes. Only a clean out of the current false Republicans in Congress can save our Country.
The ideal utopian society in the eyes of the elite is a small ruling class which owns all the wealth and a large working class that is totally dependent on the ruling class. A middle class messes all that up.
I think they’ve decided they’d prefer more mutton and lamb and less wool at this point.
The working class is just as big a target as the middle class. Kill the producers.
It’s the restoration of feudalism and serfdom in all but name, which is the end goal of communism as well.
Think.....The Hunger Games.
Kill off the middle class and the working class and you have a one party state reminiscent of East Germany and North Korea.
Because Deep State has learned from history.
A healthy, growing, upwardly mobile middle class is the greatest threat to it.
“It’s the restoration of feudalism and serfdom in all but name, which is the end goal of communism as well.”
World Economic Forum documents have mentioned Neo-Feudalism as a form of government for the Great Reset. I guess because Feudalism was so successful back in the Dark Ages. /s
There's a reason why a "middle class" was never the norm for thousands of years of human history.
“As long as we remain unrepresented in Washington, the true American middle class is suffering, paying for the upper and the lower classes. Only a clean out of the current false Republicans in Congress can save our Country.”
So true....
If there is anything in those two sentences I would quibble with is the two words, “false Republicans”. I postulate that what you refer to a False Republicans has over the past 75 years or so proven to be the the True Republicans. Go along to get along and make damn sure no permanant change comes to Their Party.
Read later.
Wasn’t it a head of Boeing years ago who said, “From the neck down, minimum wage.”?
“Think.....The Hunger Games.“
YESINDEEDY-DOODY!!!!!!
Anyone notice how they and their media lackeys always refer to us as “workers” nowadays? We aren’t “citizens” or “constituents”, we are “workers”.
And THEY are always referred to as our “Leaders”. Not ‘representatives’, but “Leaders”.
Often the numbers used the "destruction" is that the bell curve of income is being spread out so that the middle class is losing population to both the rich and the poor.
The so called elites ,or as David Brooks likes to call himself “The Expert Class”, are using the latest ‘thing’ to make themselves gods.
thwart their plans by not complying. We should be savvy enough to come up with a parallel system (like the criminal class) to avoid them Their demise comes when they overreach. History
Perhaps the elimination of the middle class is intentional.
Who needs alot of stakeholders in the current system hanging around consuming and expecting to be heard?
History of countries consumed by totalitarianism:
Destroy middle class
Disarm law abiding citizens
Sound familiar?
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