2/ I think a large part of the motivation behind this is because the Uncomfortable Truths™ are getting harder and hard to deny. Those truths are: * IQ is real, and is the most predictive trait / most important trait in an information economy * NAMs average lowe intelligence >
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3/ * the liberal arts (as commonly / modernly construed) are effectively worthless in a world where software is eating everything / markets dominate / polite lies crumble before market competition
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4/ In 1921: * intelligence was not legible * individual contributions in firms were not legible * the utility of STEM vs a respectable English degree was not legible
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5/ The modern world created legibility, transparency, markets, measurement ... and now huge numbers of NAMs and the innumerate are crisply and accurately judged to be effectively useless in a eaten-by-software world ...so the innumerate use their core skills: gossip & shunning
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6/ It is not tangential or accidental or incidental that math is being "decolonized". Objective measurements like IQ and mathematical aptitude are the "oppressive" truths that separate the useful and the productive from the useless impotent gossips and scolds.
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7/ OF COURSE the left loves that cross dressing child that dances on bars for gay men, and hates Elon Musk. Elon Musk builds things ... things that they can't even UNDERSTAND. Eloi hate Morlocks. It's a hatred born of resentment, based on their own inability and incompetence.
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