That's more or less what I feel on this Lon. I found school really easy - though hated most of it off the sports field. I'm broadly sick of how we reward people and what this encourages. I think most of us could grok most of what is important if education and propaganda didn't mystify it for the sake of grading us. I'm not out to make us all equal in the sense of the same or uniform but I am wondering about why we allow such massive differences. I suspect this IQ (EQ or Ei) stuff is a typical part of the excuses given to us about a tiny number hogging resources. I have to say I think most people like stuff I can't stand - soap operas, pop music, romantic and detective fiction and upper-class bullshit alternatives - and have destroyed a lot I did like (sport before commercialisation) and this makes me suspect they are not very intelligent or reasonable - but I suspect this is more cultural than genetic. If we are generally so dumb that burning the planet and Hollywood are what we really want well fair enough, let's just wait for the war. Otherwise, we might want to work out we have schools all wrong.
On 27 Oct, 21:19, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote: > I like to seek out the hard questions, and the one you bring to light > is that it may be true that some groups of people on average are not > intelligent enough in the 'right' way to succeed in modern society. > It is a hard thing to contemplate for those who have been > indoctronated from birth that each one of us has unlimited potential. > > Of course, this depends entirely on your definition of success. > Should a 'burger-flipper' be less honored than a physicist. A good > burger had much more impact on my day than many of the scientific > discovories of the day. In the US, day care workers are near to the > bottom of the barrel, status-wise. These are people who we trust to > take care of our children. It may not need the same kind of mind that > can write computer software, but it's a pretty damned important job. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
