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Education
Our public schools are deeply entrenched with a progressive, godless ideology. As are the media and entertainment industry.
Posted on 01/26/2012 8:21:22 PM PST by neverdem
It's a synopsis by Charles Murray of his new book. It's easier to read at The New Criterion. Blockquotes are observed there.
The doctor doesn't live here.
Most people in my neighborhood read at least four languages and speak 3. We used to have some cops, but they sold out and moved someplace cheaper.
I think the FBI is relocating to somewhere near here.
That's to get nearer the criminals (a joke ~ we have maybe 5 neighbors in prison ~ )
...the debate about wealth and inequality will never be the same...Quite the contrary -- the 'debate' has always been exactly the same as it is now.
It should be noted and remembered that Charles Murray is depicting FICTIONAL towns.
I see no support for his depictions. I’m not saying there *is* none, but none is supplied here.
Some of these Belmont people are among the least aware, less able to survive an upheaval, and politically the most stupid in America.
Money and skills don’t guarantee that you will have a brain that is realistic in its appraisals of reality, society, and threats.
I live among a few of them and they are almost useless. Their kids are educated in “schoolin” but not in life. Why? Because they are so sheltered that they have not been how to be streetwise and self-sufficient.
Give me a bunch of good ole boys when it comes to crunch time. THe US military realized that in WW2 when it took tough city-kids and let them lead the attacks against the Germans in the occupied cites, while letting the country-boys lead the fighting in the jungles and hills from Italy and France to the Pacific.
My father-in-law is one of those country boys - he survived four Pacific landings - Saipan, Tinian, Peiliu?, and Iwo.
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Reads a bit like what has happened to the working classes in England. They had to bring in the foreigners to do the work.
My money is on “Idiotcracy.”
IIRC, Belmont is a Boston suburb, and Fishtown is a Philadelphia neighborhood.
To represent the classes at the two ends of the continuum, I give you two fictional neighborhoods that I hereby label Belmont (after an archetypal upper-middle-class suburb near Boston) and Fishtown (after a neighborhood in Philadelphia that has been white working class since the Revolution).
I see no support for his depictions. I’m not saying there *is* none, but none is supplied here.
Check the link in comment# 1.
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Education
Our public schools are deeply entrenched with a progressive, godless ideology. As are the media and entertainment industry.
Having grown up in North Jersey, the most diverse population in the US, and also the most segregated residential neighborhoods in the country, I know Murray is speaking the truth on this one.
There were parts of the Sopranos TV show that were great vignettes into this world. One housewife complained about not bumping into the Lladro statue, her son goes to a friends house and there are original Chagalls on the walls. One college age tutor drives a beater car to high school kids who get brand new cars the day they turn 17.
Coming from the NYC area, the depiction if the two types of white rings very true, although the Fishtown types are vanishing.
>> Check the link in comment# 1
I did. It’s good.
I see no support for his depictions.
And Murray’s books are about the best-supported books you could hope to find.
Murray is stating an important point, the person who wrote the review missed the larger point. The problems are cultural and values oriented not racial. Murray was castigated for writing The Bell Curve, yet the mess the ‘non white’ underclass is facing is the same as the emerging white underclass is facing. It will show itself in the form of lower IQ going forward but the issue is debasing the culture no race per se, and is ultimately the outcome of the socialist policies in the Industrialized world put in place over the past 90 years (in the US since the reign of FDR).
Not sure we can turn things around short of a complete collapse of the current structure and something akin to the great reawakening of the 19th century.
That’s quite true. “Belmont”, is multiracial. Most are white, but there are plenty of Chinese, Japanese, Indians with a smattering of Middle Easterners and a few Blacks and Latinos thrown in for good measure.
Something like this happened under Diocletian in the late Western Roman empire, where one's social class remained constant by government fiat. The reason may strike modern American readers with a ring of familiarity - it was in order to preserve vital tax revenues in support of a welfare class.
I would not for a moment object to persons who are convinced - usually by their self-absorbed peers - that they have some sort of innate superior intelligence, to flock together, so long as they leave me alone. The problem is that they don't.
Ditto the purported divide in intelligence. Well-to-do, intact families may produce kids who test better on Stanford-Binet tests and their ACT's, because their parents have seen to it that they're better-prepared ..... but are they really smarter?. To assert that they do, after only one or two generations of separation from the less-educated population, would seem to be an unwitting descent into Lysenkoism.
Really? Where are they going? Or are they just turning into vital statistics?
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