The Coming Storm

www.fredoneverything.net ^ | 4/29/2004 | Fred Reed

[Bon mots]

Get a gun!! Better yet, lots of them!
Shooting and handling guns is a lot easier and more fun than you think.

[tiki]

My father, who was on the low end of the genius scale, was going to NASA to work in the 60s and his description of the job was that he was there to show the real geniuses what a screwdriver was and what it could do.

I know one young man who grew up on a farm. He is a genius, has common-sense, has money sense and people sense. He is also a conservative Republican. I am amazed by him.

[Cultural Jihad]

Most of this problem is not an IQ or affirmative action problem. It is a moral problem, which translates into a cultural problem.

Thieves and lazy scoundrels are, well, thieves and lazy scoundrels. Many have high IQs and come in all skin colors.

Who would you rather have as a neighbor and a friend - bubba and hildabeast clinton, some Hollyood glitterati, a poverty pimp, a welfare momma with a passle of illegitimate brats,... or the man who sits near you in church every Sunday, is the school janitor, drives a 15 year old car and whose wife works at Wal-Mart to try to keep her kids in clothes?

Answering that question tells you just where you fit in this story!

Very well said.

[antaresequity]

As a high school drop out, who scored 97/99 on his GED, 1650 on the SAT...and who then went on to be a carpenter/contractor...I find twisted satisfaction and a bit of irony in this authors proclamations...

Extremely dissatisfied with construction because it wasn't challenging enough, I took deep forays into computer programming and mathematics...and today, I still plod along dissatisfied...never finding the right niche to flourish. In fact I have digressed back to the world of construction.

Two years ago I took a huge risk...and tried to divorce my tradesmen roots. I wanted to marry brokerage functionality and technical analysis displays into a seamless user interface. As a practical person, I looked at the state of the industry, and saw an extremely inefficient and disbarment user interface standard. My concept brought together brokerage software and technical analysis displays into a seamless user interface.

The software I wrote and the resultant patent application have been assigned to a bunch of geeks in San Francisco. A third tier company...such an assignment was a last resort. I ran out of time, money and patience with corporate malaise. There is no doubt in my mind that all of the big players are feverishly working on the concepts I exposed to them.

For the last year I have tried to turn an idea and concept into a business, or in my minds eye, a viable cohesive entity pursuing a generational shift in present technology for financial markets analysis and rights transfers. The industry shift is becoming more evident as time ‘worries on’. Thank god for the patent app.

What has stood in the way?

Despite all of the meetings with the rich and powerful, the boardrooms, hotel suites...and exorbinate adulation...they cant get over the high school drop out carpenter, who has shown them what will eventually be the industry standard. "How could you create this in a year?"..."Impossible...now way"..."What?...you sat down a year ago and taught yourself computer coding AND created this at the same time?"....

Instead of acting like Americans and just getting the damn job done…it bogs down in committee…and my can do will do attitude coming from a serf chaps their hides…

Ad nauseum it goes...

As of late I have digressed back to construction, frustrated with corporate culture and elitism. I hope the patent issues, and the assignment and consulting bear fruit with the last resort software group in the city. Should the patent issue, I will take them all to the mat. Touch a two dimensional display analysis and effect a rights transfer...I will make you pay.

In the mean time...

I have spent this weekend mathematically [trig] analyzing the works of local and renowned architect...to only find that his artistic vision is impossible in three dimensions as they relate to his two dimensional world...to the extent as they are depicted in his drawings [in lay terms: dude, you cant have a structure with 6 different roof pitches, and consistent plate heights and overhang widths...but here are your options].

What this author alludes to, is more painful for the conservative carpenter/contractor who has the ability and desire to do anything...to do more...who used to believe the only impediment to exploration of mind and world was he.

So today I sit and quantitatively and qualitatively analyze and extrapolate the possible options within the zeros [pre-defined constants: building height and mass], and produce a report that politically turns the owners ally [the architect] into my ally, and thus secures my position as the one guy who can build this home for a family [its not a house, its a home for a family, never forget it], without violating the trust of the owner in the architect, and the relationship they have forged.

I am a victim [poor choice of words] of this bias and evident demarcation of class.

The owner of the home is the guy who played heavily in the Bank One JPM merger…a blue chip client.

I still feel kike a guy hitting on 4 of eight cylinders. The clock is ticking.

[JasonC]

Why does it matter whether they intermarry? The premise of the article is that cognitive classes are insulated from one another, do not meet interact or understand one another, and would be at each other's throats if they did. Which is simply false. It is a fantasy about caste as a replacement for race politics or something. When actually cognitive classes are functionally differentiated and live side by side, largely getting along just fine.

Is there brain drain from backwaters? No doubt. There is brain attraction to anyplace that is nice to live. Including the US among countries, some cities rather than others, cities rather than rural areas, etc. So what? The article writer wants to turn it all into Gobineau redux or something, which is just absurd. Nobody is going to develop nationalism about their IQ score. Nobody is that silly.

[nmh]

In a nutshell, th elite can't comprehend that some are simply won't ever be able to perform in a job that requires more intellectual brainpower. They believe that by redistributing education to the intellectually challenged that by magic they too will become "bright".

[nmh]

In a nutshell, th elite can't comprehend that some are simply won't ever be able to perform in a job that requires more intellectual brainpower. They believe that by redistributing education to the intellectually challenged that by magic they too will become "bright" - and all they need is an "opportunity" to shine via quotas and racial preferences and money to finance this dream.

[chilepepper]

There are biological inequities that make some people smarter than others. To deny that is to deny reality.

This may be so, however my point is that some of the former scored lower on their "IQ test" than some of the latter.

The problem is who decides who in the population is "smarter" and what metric do they use to discern "smartness". I'd rather use my own judgement -- sorry, those who buy into conventional wisdom and simple solutions i tend to grade pretty low in the smartness scale...

He who controls the metric used to define "smartness", has won the keys to controlling the society itself.

The problem is that the socialists have taken the "high ground" in this battle, Academia. High in the sense that historically, the "smart" people as you put it are generally assumed to be the well educated. Having taken over most of the "leadership" positions in Academia, these "smarter than us proles" leaders are rapidly redefining "smartness" to include the left's perspective on the environment, economics, and how history is to be interpreted. Why do you think those expousing the conservative view never seem to get tenure? They must not be smart enough.

I do not accept the premise that "smarter people make better leaders" as you put it -- this is exactly the argument the left used to attack Ronald Reagan and more recently have used against George Bush. I'd much rather have a leader who demonstrates clear thinking and is a good judge of character as a leader than one who is "smart".

jimmuh carter was very smart. the entire leadership of NAZI germany had IQ's in the genius level.

[nmh]

You are right a large part if cultural. Take the Asians - they are brow beaten into LEARN, LEARN, LEARN or else. Their parents were raised the same way. The other part - genetic gives them a head start since their parents were also driven so it's natural that the kids typically succeed. In other races the bar is LOW and of course with LOW expectations kids deliver LESS etc..

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I think you've found somebody worth reading. Pulled few punches.

A few quibbles - He left out that the moneyed elites put themselves in positions of power and legislate loopholes to exempt themselves from the costs dumped on the middle class, resulting in a system of rich AND poor against the middle.

And he is not totally up on genetics. Having separated themselves and their progeny from the riff-raff, the intelligencia do not necessarily pass on their good genes, resulting in an inbred pseudo-royalty that is out of its element when it comes to maintaining their wealth and privilege. Look no further than the Kennedys. On the flipside, the poor and less endowed do not necessarily breed stupid children. The smart still tend to rise to the top. But now they find a class-based glass ceiling imposed by degenerate scions of wealth-builders of past generations who use high taxes on the upper middle class to prevent them from rising and diluting their power and status.

[guitfiddlist]

You are right a large part if cultural. Take the Asians - they are brow beaten into LEARN, LEARN, LEARN or else. Their parents were raised the same way. The other part - genetic gives them a head start since their parents were also driven so it's natural that the kids typically succeed. In other races the bar is LOW and of course with LOW expectations kids deliver LESS etc..

That's the Asians in this country - which is a self-selected elite. Those adventurous enough to emigrate, and smart enough to survive in a hostile to indifferent climate (there was no affirmative action programs from caterwauling liberals for Asians) - are head and shoulders above the rest back in Asia. As a Eurasian, I'm allowed to say there are plenty of dumb Asians in Asia.

[SuziQ]

My sister runs an alternative Drug Sentencing program in Mississippi. Some elitist decided that what her clients need are college classes, and allocated money for such. She argued with one of the local judges, and he agreed, that she'd rather see that money available for those folks to take classes that will teach them a TRADE! She has two women in her group who want to learn hairdressing, so she's gonna try to get that set up for them.

So many people have become enamored with college, that they forget that some kids are just not cut out for it! They'd do much better being taught a skill that will at least earn them a somewhat decent living! We need folks who can build houses, and do electrical and plumbing work.

But she also realizes that some folks are just BUMS! There was awoman in front of the judge the other day, when asked how many kids she had, said "Four", and when asked where they were she said "I don;t know". The judge was appalled and castigated this woman for not knowing, and seemingly not even CARING what was going on with her kids. All the woman knew was that her Mama had them, but just let them run wild. I guess we know why this woman turned out the way she did.

Remember the ruckus raised by the liberals when Newt Gingrich started talking about orphanages for kids who's parents abandoned them? It sounds better every day, doesn't it?

[guitfiddlist]

Remember the ruckus raised by the liberals when Newt Gingrich started talking about orphanages for kids who's parents abandoned them? It sounds better every day, doesn't it?

The worst thing about liberals, is that they castigate those who advocate doing what is necessary to avert a disaster, but when the disaster arrives, they suddenly don't want to talk about it - and let the responsible ones pick up the pieces.

And later, they come back and criticize the cleanup action their rank stupidity necessitated in the first place.

[PLMerite]

Your home page makes me want to drag out my "Be A Man Among Men - Rhodesian Army" t-shirt.

[null and void]

*shrug*

I didn't bother to go to the Dr. for my last two broken bones.

No point really, I can buddy tape a toe myself. And a cracked rib is pretty much splinted by the surrounding ribs.

[cyborg]

I remember seeing an old recruiting poster with a saying like that. I should have filched that one too.

[null and void]

At least the current cars aren't unsafe at any speed...

*ducking*

[Travis McGee]

My sister the high school math teacher reports that second generation Asian American kids are just as status-driven and academically lazy as their European American classmates. The MTV and mall culture wipes out that hard studying ethic in a generation.

[IronJack]

You have missed my point entirely. There seems to be little sense in continuing this discourse.

[philman_36]

Now that was interesting.