IQ is demonstrably heritable, as is any number of different things up to and including religiosity. You are correct that random mutation ensures that the occasional genius is born even to unintelligent people. This is actually a problem in societies with high social mobility, draining intelligent people out of all demographics into comspopolitan cities where they become non-reproductive bugmen, a phenomenon known as the IQ-shredder. Demographics are not necessarily deterministic for individuals, but in the aggregate they tell a very compelling story about biodiversity between groups of humans.
Did you expect this place to be a hive mind or something?
I barely skimmed through your post but I remember my middle school limiting ranch packets to exclusively be given out for salads, and I only recently realized it was probably to cut costs on ranch packet stock. That greed itself isn't so bad but the faculty will shamelessly try to gaslight the students that it's worth their time or discourage them from inquiring about the policy change at all as a measure to avoid being pressured to revert it back, for money. You have the perfect opportunity to educate your students in a real situation and instead you opt for having psychological power over them.
Call me wrong if you want but "New Colossus" is an objectively beautiful and moving piece of literature and is SUPER far removed from modern day political and social issues.
God I missed him so much. The absolute stream of "what a fucking annoying loser this guy is" never fails to make me laugh.
You don’t even have to consciously do this, the tencent acquisition is quickly followed by the game companies turning into slop peddling essentially gacha game (slot machine) mechanics. Maybe a few exceptions. I heard that monkey game is pretty damn good. Or maybe that’s a CCP psyop…
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A failed civilization that lasted thousands of years isn't much of a failed civilization
North America was Europe's IQ-shredder, except instead of shredding its bravest and boldest people it just killed the least competent ones until the wilderness was fully settled.
The American population coming from mostly British descendants hasn't been true since...at least the mid 18th century
And he might not have been caught but for all those mysterious votes for "Labour."
And that he's still wealthier than I.
IQ is heritable but not necessarily an indicator of success. I'm certain that you and I have met people who were sharp as a tack, but work a shit job so they can go home to their video games and goon caves. Or people destined for greatness taken down by addiction. I don't know about you, but I have met people who were not very intelligent and had no booksmarts at all, but they could work with their hands, they had a solid work ethic, made a good living at a trade, found a wife, had kids, and bought a house. Respectfully, I think that epigenetics and environmental factors have a lot more influence than I think you're giving credit right now.
My disagreement is that WASPs are the main culture. It's where we get our legal and political traditions for sure, but the rest of the culture is unique to American history and the American experience. I'm certainly not arguing it's a paragraph and an economic zone, but rather that pinning our culture to European traditions is something of an appeal to tradition that doesn't make sense. At least, it doesn't make sense to me.
my goodness this argument chaps my ass beacuse your right but even within that english or british colonists were considered like the "niggers' of their time, the offical name of the Pilgrims was the "separatists".
Clearly the divorce was due to the husband not taking out the garbage.
Niggawhat?
