Whew! Potent commentary Neil!
On Oct 27, 4:09 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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.- Hide
> > quoted text -
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