What to say? The political fault lines are definitely showing and growing around our globe. We are, it seems, cursed to endure living through the repetitions of so-called leaders making the same pathetic mistakes generation after generation because voters are too stupid to look at the past and think ahead. All that should really be neces…
What to say? The political fault lines are definitely showing and growing around our globe. We are, it seems, cursed to endure living through the repetitions of so-called leaders making the same pathetic mistakes generation after generation because voters are too stupid to look at the past and think ahead. All that should really be necessary is to read stories about one's grandparents' peers and then to think about possible grandchildrens' futures. Alas, this requires some (now rare) skills - reading, comprehension, critical analysis. Perhaps there should be globally mandated minimum acceptable IQ limits for both procreation and public office.
While I intellectually and emotionally agree with your last statement, there is a wicked big problem with it. It assumes that IQ equates with a sense of democracy, tolerance and empathy. It does not. Elon Musk has a high intellectual and functional IQ. He also has the emotional and compassionate IQ of a lizard.
I have an understanding of him you may not have - he's Aspergian. That means that on things that interest him, he's a genius. On the things that don't interest him, it's in one ear and out the other and he's worse than a moron. I know the things that interest me, and I stick to them, and all you think I'm a genius. But look at what I *don't* talk about and you'll know what doesn't interest me and where I'm a moron. Fortunately, I learned from my father (also Aspergian but they didn't know what that was when he was here), that "the mark of the really intelligent man is to know where he's stupid."
In Muck's case, with all the money he has, he can come to believe that he's a genius everywhere; he "lives in a world of no 'no.'" Joe Walsh of the Eagles did a song about that world. It's not a good place to live, particularly when you have the emotional development of a 12 year old, like Muck.
What to say? The political fault lines are definitely showing and growing around our globe. We are, it seems, cursed to endure living through the repetitions of so-called leaders making the same pathetic mistakes generation after generation because voters are too stupid to look at the past and think ahead. All that should really be necessary is to read stories about one's grandparents' peers and then to think about possible grandchildrens' futures. Alas, this requires some (now rare) skills - reading, comprehension, critical analysis. Perhaps there should be globally mandated minimum acceptable IQ limits for both procreation and public office.
While I intellectually and emotionally agree with your last statement, there is a wicked big problem with it. It assumes that IQ equates with a sense of democracy, tolerance and empathy. It does not. Elon Musk has a high intellectual and functional IQ. He also has the emotional and compassionate IQ of a lizard.
I have an understanding of him you may not have - he's Aspergian. That means that on things that interest him, he's a genius. On the things that don't interest him, it's in one ear and out the other and he's worse than a moron. I know the things that interest me, and I stick to them, and all you think I'm a genius. But look at what I *don't* talk about and you'll know what doesn't interest me and where I'm a moron. Fortunately, I learned from my father (also Aspergian but they didn't know what that was when he was here), that "the mark of the really intelligent man is to know where he's stupid."
In Muck's case, with all the money he has, he can come to believe that he's a genius everywhere; he "lives in a world of no 'no.'" Joe Walsh of the Eagles did a song about that world. It's not a good place to live, particularly when you have the emotional development of a 12 year old, like Muck.
I've been advocating that last sentence for-frickin'-EVER.