The Bell Curve is one of the most astonishingly prescient books ever written. Its basic point was simply that our society is moving towards one in which there is little economic or social demand for low-IQ people.
Every single trend it described 2 years ago has continued and accelerated. And absolutely nobody wants to talk about them, because they don’t fit into neat categories of today’s political thought.
Sadly, the authors were intellectually honest enough to include a chapter on racial differences in IQ. Not at all the focus of their book, but it of course became the focus of 99%+ of the discussion about the book.
Which is of course why it’s now “discredited.”
For many decades leftists pushed the blank-slate theory of intelligence. That is the "theory" of intelligence that has been totally discredited. Intelligence is not all nature, but it is a very large part of it.
That most people are smart or dumb due to heritable IQ is something libs are just not ready to admit. To admit that would mean ideological defeat and the end of all useless lib programs designed to equalize outcomes and waste tax-payer money.
The Bell Curve is one of the most astonishingly prescient books ever written. Its basic point was simply that our society is moving towards one in which there is little economic or social demand for low-IQ people.
One has to ask: what is this a formula for?
When read with an open mind the Bell Curve makes the pieces fall into place. Of course, the book discusses uncomfortable truths which most Americans would prefer to ignore. As we know, ignoring the truth comes with a price.
The Left is still struggling to "discredit" 1984 and Animal Farm.