IQ.

Prof James Flynn has studied IQ and found in every recent ten-year period our IQ is increasing by some five points: We’re getting smarter. A hundred years ago an earlier scientist found ordinary people couldn’t think in abstractions, in logic and the hypothetical. They thought entirely practically. In terms of today’s IQ they were close to imbecilic, which of course they weren’t, they just thought practically. In the succeeding hundred years we have become comfortable with abstraction, logic and the hypothetical hence the increase in IQ, but before we feel superior this might have unforeseen consequences. By greater use of these higher functions of the brain we might well be neglecting the practical, experiential, emotional and empathic uses of our brain. For sure they’re still there but maybe subservient to logic and the like. And for sure we lord this particular intelligence and structure our society in its direction. The smart people get to the top because the top is created in those terms. And for sure it’s useful in certain areas but it’s beginning to have a negative effect. By fostering abstraction we’re literally abstracting ourselves from reality from nature the planet and hence neglect them in favour of our own constructs. By fostering logic we subdue feelings. By fostering hypotheses we invent often unreal alternatives. By subduing the practical, emotional and empathic we becoming cold and disconnected with an increasingly narrow skill set. This move to smart was very useful in the industrial revolution but the trend has continued until today we are suffering from it. I suggest most of our self-inflicted hardships are due to a growing sociopathic state of mind that our increasing IQ is leading us into with the smartest sociopaths leading the way.

And as my IQ (135) is classified as ‘Very superior’ don’t fucking argue with me OK.