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From: Billy on 27 Jun 2010 13:37 In article <SalmonEgg-E86474.09121722062010(a)news60.forteinc.com>, Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > In article <hvqebe$df9$1(a)news-int2.gatech.edu>, > david.bostwick(a)chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) wrote: > > > In article <4C1E4872.E3173A96(a)sonic.net>, Mark Thorson <nospam(a)sonic.net> > > wrote: > > >Salmon Egg wrote: > > >> > > >> If evolution is at work, and selection has selected for the prevalence > > >> of excess stupidity, does that not mean that some stupidity is required > > >> for the super-organism of mankind to flourish? Could it be that mankind > > >> is selected to have a few elitists who can then exploit the stupid. > > > > > >It is my observation that the lowest class of intelligence > > >has the most number of children. I attribute that mostly > > >to lack of long-term planning and lack of knowledge of > > >basic human biology. Therefore, intelligence is not favored > > >by natural selection. > > > > q.v. "The Marching Morons." > > It is not clear to me that selection for lots of stupidity with a few > elite may increase the survival of both kinds. For example, hordes of > stupid people put to constructive work benefit both. Look at what is > happening in China. How could hordes of stupid people could not prosper > without the introduction of vaccines and sanitation provided by the > smaller number of elite. > > Bill You're creeping me out. This sounds, not too vaguely, like the industrialists faux Darwinian justification for keeping the working class, and their wages, down. If your talking about meritocracy, then get rid of inheritance, and let everyone compete on a level playing field. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://radwisdom.com/essays/this-is-your-brain/ |