“Take people out of their natural environment and you suddenly see their raw cognitive ability. “
I’d never thought about intelligence/knowledge in this way. I could say, the essentially academic, closeted, intelligence is one of hyperspecialisation; that is, it utterly dominates an outsider, within a typically narrow domain. Outside of that domain, it is useless.
A great song, and great video. And great top-rated Youtube comment:
Today, the fickleness of public morality regarding a wide range of issues has created a culture of fear. It’s not just that people are afraid of saying something blasphemous by today standards. They fear holding an opinion that will be blasphemous by tomorrow’s standards. The assumption is that the current trends with regards to human nature, human organization and politics will keep going in the same direction forever. Today it is immoral to laugh at a man in a dress. Tomorrow it will be immoral to not be a man in a dress.
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Multiculturalism is the decorative cod piece of this age. It has no utility and will eventually fall out of style.
To be a conservative today is to be a man of both the past and the future; we are only unsure as to which future.
Remainders 