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IQ has nothing to do with it -- smart people are plenty tribal, too. anyone who has ever waded into battles in academia has seen this firsthand cuz that's wha
by red-iron-pine 25d ago
IQ has nothing to do with it -- smart people are plenty tribal, too. anyone who has ever waded into battles in academia has seen this firsthand
cuz that's what it's about: tribe
as Scott Alexander once said: "the ideology is not the movement" (it's the tribe as much as anything)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/04/the-ideology-is-not-the-movement/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/04/the-ideology-is-not-th...
- EPWN3D 25d agoI don't think that's completely true. When times are good, intelligence and education probably come out in the wash. But when times are bad, and people are losing their livelihoods, intelligence has a lot to do with how blame is assigned. In other words, you're a lot more likely to get scammed the less intelligent and less educated you are. And that's what we got here in the US -- a conman ran a very successful con on people who just weren't all that smart or educated. And there were enough of those people to supplement the base tribalism and propel him to victory.