Mediocre Man
11th November 2020
ZMan looks at intelligence.
When trying to understand what has gone so terribly wrong with the Occident, observers often point to intelligence as the main driver. The populations of the West are getting dumber, so they are less capable than in the past. This is not to say there are no geniuses today or that there are fewer of them. It’s that their proportion of society is smaller than in the past. It is the smart fraction that is getting smaller. As a result, the progress of the West has slowed and may be in reverse.
High intelligence doesn’t mean that someone is a better thinker than another, but merely that he thinks faster than someone of low intelligence. Sometimes this speed differential is so great that what a low-intelligence person would have to puzzle through (and get right) appears (wrongly) to the high-intelligence person as Obvious – which is why high-intelligence people can be such dicks about stuff. ‘Why can’t you see this? It’s OBVIOUS!’ Well, no, you merely reached a wrong conclusion very rapidly.
So don’t attach too much value to a person’s intelligence. It can be a snare and a delusion (see Paul Krugman for a good example).
Now, one reason for this decline in intelligence, is the mass invasion from outside the Occident over the last fifty years. Minneapolis is now a dysfunctional city because of the importation of sub-Saharan Africans. The sorts of people who think Ilhan Omar is a great leader will struggle with modernity. The reason these people are trapped in the Neolithic age is they lack the cognitive ability to go much further. California looks like Mexico because it is now full of Mexicans.
To be fair, much of that is an additional problem of culture. People from Turd World countries are used to the kind of government that Turd World countries get. Mexicans expect America to work the way Mexico does, which is why we get narcoterrorist gangs in cities where there is a large Mexican population. Ilhan Omar is the sort of corrupt demagogic politician you would expect to see in Somalia, which is why she popped up in Minnesota.