{"id":137194,"date":"2021-02-19T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137194"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:02:09","slug":"boris-johnson-on-iq-wealth-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137194","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson On IQ &#038; Wealth Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXJCZMvqbVY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/boris-johnsons-cornflake-packet-theory-of-i-q\/\">Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* He must have heard that classic rhetorical advice somewhere along his way about the necessity to deliver both to your audience: Delights and insights. \u2013 And he did take this lesson to his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Btw. \u2013 his hint to Freud is a meta-joke because Boris Johnson transforms here Freuds penis-envy theorem = the Viennese\u2019s interpretation of the classical Greek Oedipus saga as a faraway hint at the little girl\u2019s envious mental disposition. And now comes Boris Johnson\u2019s funny and witty indeed move: He looks at all the men who were turned into little boys by Margret Thatcher and lets them \u2013 \u00f6h \u2013 shrink even more by characterizing them as terrorized (=traumatized\u2026) by the recesses (the huge empty space) of \u2013 something attached to Margret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Boris Johnson lets the men Ms. Tatcher dwarfed shiver over the imagination of a symbol (the handbag) of her sexes sexual strength actually which is \u2013 receding (=the recesses) big style inwards just like her \u2013 vagina does \u2013 \u2013 making the little boy\u2019s little penises \u2013 in this dark and horrific tale, Boris JonJohnson is telling here \u2013 absolutely lost.<\/p>\n<p>(A man of true wits and talents).<\/p>\n<p>* There\u2019s a strong argument to be made that the coming waves of AI will be harder on the administrative middle and even upper-middle classes than on the \u2018hands-on\u2019 working class.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of legal procedures, medical diagnostics, routine business transactions, and so on will be easier and easier to automate. The reign of the midwit symbol-manipulators will be undermined.<\/p>\n<p>I also suspect more and more people, exhausted by the thin virtuality of social media, will become obsessed with the \u2018authenticity\u2019 of their day-to-day experiences, and will seek out and pay for \u2018artisanal\u2019 interactions not just in restaurants and bars, but also in shopping, health care, and so on. You can see this happening right now with food \u2014 products that can be marketed as the products of personalized curating and care command premium prices. This demand is bound to spread.<\/p>\n<p>* Boris\u2019s presentation here strikes me as quite a bit more intelligent than what we get from American politicians. Easy to draw out a few points:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 You need some inequality to make people compete\/produce. And you need winners to milk. (There\u2019s no milk if no one\u2019s gone milking.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 There\u2019s a natural inequality of talent.<br \/>\n\u2013 A 1\/6 of the population is really pretty stupid. (And can\u2019t contribute much.)<br \/>\n\u2013 A very small fraction has the smarts to grab opportunities and grab outsized rewards.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Worldwide economic competition is heating up. There are fewer protected areas. This heightened competition sorts on natural ability even more than before.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly rocket science points\u2013should be stuff everyone understands by high school\u2013but at least actually intelligent\/true\u2013unlike 99% of our American politicians spew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments at Steve Sailer: * He must have heard that classic rhetorical advice somewhere along his way about the necessity to deliver both to your audience: Delights and insights. \u2013 And he did take this lesson to his heart. Btw. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137196,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137194\/revisions\/137196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}