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June 14, 2015
It has been drilled into all of us that we must bow to the lie that we are all “equal”, most especially in terms of intellect,
The second reason that the sense of duty has been suppressed is another post-Christian, post-modern phenomenon, anti-intellectualism.Those of us who are riding the Bell Curve multiple standard deviations forward have been shamed into not just silence, but a suicidal desire to cede our duties of leadership in society to the very people that require our leadership. Did you just cringe when you read the first clause in the last sentence? Did you just cringe when I said, using the first person plural, “Those of us who are riding the Bell Curve multiple standard deviations forward…” I’ll bet most of you did. Why? Because it has been drilled into all of us that we must bow to the lie that we are all “equal”, most especially in terms of intellect, and thus one may NEVER, EVER acknowledge that one is of above-average intelligence, most especially if it is true. Gemitibus Inenarrabilibus | Barnhardt
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That guy talks like a sausage.
First, we are not all equal. he uses the paradigm of intelligence to exemplify his points and he does not do a good job of it.
Some people are smarter than others some dumber. Nothing to do with race, gender, country of origin, age, none of that. Has to do with brain size and neural pathways, other technical parameters.
Used to be that was jake with most people. They didn't feel deprived or handicapped in some way. some guys are handsome, some butt-ugly. Gals the same way, some hot ones, some pooches. That was just the way it was.
A more salient discussion would bring to attention what we do with our level of intelligence, whatever that might be. Some men might not be the sharpest tack but can start a business and be way successful at it. Some women might not have graduated top of class but in the role of wife and mother succeed beyond measure.
I didn't mention women in the work force not because I am a misogynist but because I believe that women who are wives and mothers work twice as hard as we see them in jobs. Gals in the workforce can be assessed in the men in business category.
Er, drifting a bit. OK, intelligence. "The Bell Curve" how quaint. I have tested Stanford-Binet somewhere north of 150.
So what? I don't pull that out as dinner table conversation because it doesn't matter to me, I gotta be smarter than the other person and I am not intimidated by people scored higher than me. What matters is not what we have but what we do with it.
I squandered my God-given strengths:
"When I see some of these folks running their game I want to say “Kid, I ran with bikers, shot junk, robbed banks;
my hands have taken lives and saved lives; I worked with the Billy Graham Crusade;
I’m half dead with the cancer; I got a million miles of highway under my ass, slept with dogs, danced with angels;
I got screwdrivers older than you … what ya gonna show me, uh?”
That's not bragging. That's just the way it was with me. As I said, I wasted a lot of time and energy before I finally got straight.
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at June 15, 2015 9:34 PM