This is not a race thread.
I've been obsessed with this book's concept of "cognitive and intellectual elite", the more I watch documentaries about systemic problems in the world, the more I believe it.
There's something like 50 thousand deaths from drug overdoses every year in America, the overwhelming majority of them are low class people in blue collar jobs. We seem to just be complacent in it, and it's been rising massively every year. It just makes me think that this is sort of an "end-stage rot" in the social correlates related to iq described by the book. 1st world country's successful jobs are universally academic on some level, almost ubiquitously, in engineers, finance, ect. Since the 80s the minimum iq just to be middle class in America has gone up like 20 points.
Is it just some veiled "assisted suicide" for the cognitively challenged that our countries are engaging in? This isn't just an American thing, in Denmark they have these glass rooms where people can go to essentially overdose in a controlled environment. Despite these rooms they only have half the overdose rate of Sweden, who has essentially the same drug policies as America. Basically the stupid people have run out of things to do.
I've been obsessed with this book's concept of "cognitive and intellectual elite", the more I watch documentaries about systemic problems in the world, the more I believe it.
There's something like 50 thousand deaths from drug overdoses every year in America, the overwhelming majority of them are low class people in blue collar jobs. We seem to just be complacent in it, and it's been rising massively every year. It just makes me think that this is sort of an "end-stage rot" in the social correlates related to iq described by the book. 1st world country's successful jobs are universally academic on some level, almost ubiquitously, in engineers, finance, ect. Since the 80s the minimum iq just to be middle class in America has gone up like 20 points.
Is it just some veiled "assisted suicide" for the cognitively challenged that our countries are engaging in? This isn't just an American thing, in Denmark they have these glass rooms where people can go to essentially overdose in a controlled environment. Despite these rooms they only have half the overdose rate of Sweden, who has essentially the same drug policies as America. Basically the stupid people have run out of things to do.
