Posted on 11/26/2017 1:18:11 PM PST by Chickensoup
They discuss the two different options afforded to our society, in dealing with intelligence, social connections, and poverty; one being harsh and totalitarian, and the other being inclusive in the best of ways, and highly textured.
I highly recommend reading these chapters. I am delighted to find this website so I can share this with you.
I guess McConnell and Ryan are at the head of the cognitive elite but they just seem like assholes to me.
Interesting, but now I am all depressed thinking about how 1994 was nearly a quarter of a century ago...
Thanks for posting.
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I have found these chapters to be so important. I have even spoken to Murray and written to him about the chapters. His newer books on poverty expand on these chapters, but frankly, I found the chapters to be better, more succinct and clear.
great post. read the bell curve a long time ago, had forgotten how prescient it is.
The last two chapters discuss the morality of managing a culture with many different kinds of people and how to make it work well, as it once did in our great-great’s times.
Thanks for posting.
Yes, we need to really think about the cognitive elite. Give me a day at the special Olympics over a day with McConnell and Ryan. I’ve changed a LOT since I read the Bell Curve. I spend my days with a genius IQ and a low IQ person and I can’t say one is necessarily “better” than the other either under Gd or just to hang with.
I don’t the “elite” that run things are particularly bright, just particularly hungry for power. If they were particularly bright, they’d see the emptiness of what they desire.
He ended up having to run for his safety, and a liberal professor helping him was injured.
The most hated chapter in "The Bell Curve" is his analysis of race and IQ.
Statistics are what they are.
What the left doesn't "get" is that Murray has been raising warning flags of the rise of the elite for years, and its effect on society as a whole.
His argument, also, is valid across the racial spectrum.
But it was all drowned out because of the chapter on race and IQ.
Is John Conyers part of the some cognitive elite? Is Hillary Clinton? Most of the people in government do not strike me as particularly intelligent, which is probably why they have such difficulty with Donald Trump.
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I don’t the “elite” that run things are particularly bright, just particularly hungry for power. If they were particularly bright, they’d see the emptiness of what they desire.
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That hunger for power is a particular factor of intelligence. You are mistaking moral intelligence for IQ. They have nothing to do with each other.
Is John Conyers part of the some cognitive elite? Is Hillary Clinton? Most of the people in government do not strike me as particularly intelligent, which is probably why they have such difficulty with Donald Trump.
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There is political intelligence and there is being someone’s puppet and pawn.
Boils down to couple of ideas...Elite have their house negroes( black,Brown,Asian etc) to help do away with the minority groups and the white elite destroy everyone else..Then the white elite get rid of the few house negroes, and they control,own and enjoy the whole damn pie....
“You are mistaking moral intelligence for IQ. They have nothing to do with each other.”
Well said.
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Intelligence is never any guarantee of wisdom.
Or virtue, for that matter.
I know he was attacked by people who are so ignorant of basic human information.
We live in increasingly feral times and some ferals walk the university halls.
The information in his book was interesting and funnily enough, professionals who get together and let their hair down, certainly agree with all the premises.
I thought it was also interesting that whites really got shafted in the book as it showed the large gap between Asian and White IQs. No one talked about that little potato.
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