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Yes we do. But good luck getting a poor white in Appalachia (who probably didn't even vote) to realize that he has far more in common with a poor black in Chica
by hyperion2010 10y ago
Yes we do. But good luck getting a poor white in Appalachia (who probably didn't even vote) to realize that he has far more in common with a poor black in Chicago than a Yankee carpetbagger from New York. While we are playing the wishing game let's bump everyone's IQ up to the current equivalent of 140, that might help a bit, oh, and throw in a good liberal education and solid home life as well.
- eevilspock 10y ago> While we are playing the wishing game let's bump everyone's IQ up to the current equivalent of 140, that might help a bit, oh, and throw in a good liberal education and solid home life as well. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that IQ correlates to goodness in this world. A lot of really smart people use those smarts for personal gain at the expense of the greater good, and even truth. The "smart" and logical strategy in the Prisoners Dilemma is the cynical one. So we all lose. What we need is a boost in Courage Quotient and Empathy Quotient[1] and a drop in our Self-Interest Quotient. Or perhaps we should all take psychedelics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069097 -- [1] Hess's probable above average IQ did not prevent her from doing a completely misguided hatchet job on "empathy".