Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have watched Fox News -- and were there such a thing as intelligence, I >> would say that those spouting nonsense there OBVIOUSLY were highly >> intelligent. No stupid person could possibly dream up such nonsense or >> present it so smoothly. ...
raghu: > I was referring to Fox News *watchers* not the anchors. > > And any Tea Party rally is another Exhibit against your thesis. There's a difference between the "intelligence" of an individual and that of a crowd. Both of these (Fox News watchers and Teabaggers) are examples of crowds. Of course, not all crowds are this stupid, but they can be. One problem of advocates of IQ is that they see "intelligence" as merely an attribute of individuals. But both the form and content of intelligence require society and its history to exist. -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
