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Education
Our public schools are deeply entrenched with a progressive, godless ideology. As are the media and entertainment industry.
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 ~ )
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.”
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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.
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.
Reverting to Social Darwinism to explain the inevitable fallout of trade policy and pernicious liberal social policy might impress someone who fancies himself to be a beneficiary of such. Everybody else sees the seeds of destruction being sown in our country. Everyone can’t be above average. There are all sorts, and gainful employment is a necessity for them all. That, we no longer have. Surprise! Those on the lower rungs are sliding into despondency.
Duh.
I’m glad I grew up in Belmont.
This is why unFree Trade and off-shoring are killing us. THERE HAS TO BE MANUFACTURING WORK FOR THE < 100 IQ crowd to do. EIther pay them to manufacture or pay them welfare or have a class war spurred on by the Demagogic Party. You pick. Tariffs or socialism that is the choice, I don’t like but that’s where we are.