pcslim wrote:The IQ Crisis Has Resulted In An Increasingly Dysfunctional SocietyAs our society has become increasingly multi-cultural, it has also become increasingly dysfunctional. Closely paralleling this trend has been a consistent drop in average IQ as a result of social policies initiated in the 1960s:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Mounting evidence indicates that demographic trends are exerting downward pressure on the distribution of cognitive ability in the USA and that the pressures are strong enough to have social consequences. The professional consensus is that the USA has experienced dysgenic pressures throughout most of the past century.
This is incredibly important because:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:As IQs drop the following things increase: poverty, single mothers, incarceration rates, high school drop out rates, etc.
The white guilt phenomenon has allowed this trend to go unchecked. We still see this phenomenon exerting a huge amount of influence on what Herrnstein and Murray refer to as the cognitive elites. The most politically correct institutions currently are universities, media companies, and tech giants such as Google/YouTube and Facebook.
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Since the 1960s this long-standing discomfort among white elites has taken on the character of a sensitivity so acute that it resembles a disorder.
The problem with this situation is that it's very much like a balloon about to burst:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Racism will reemerge in a new and more virulent form. The tension between what the white elite is supposed to think and what it is actually thinking about race will reach something close to a breaking point. This pessimistic prognosis must be contemplated: When the break comes, the result, as so often happens when cognitive dissonance is resolved, will be an overreaction in the other direction.
Currently we see individuals being pushed to their breaking points in various ways. It's not actually fair to characterize their reaction as racism. It's more accurate to suggest that these individuals are reacting to an increasingly dysfunctional society. They correctly understand that multi-culturalism has something to do with the problem, but most likely do not realize that IQs have consistently dropped off since the 1960s due to dysgenic forces (aka, the welfare state). On top of that recent immigrants have on average had substantially below average IQs. This has resulted in an ever increasing portion of the population having below average IQs and this not only results in higher crime rate and drop out rates, but it also means that many of those entering the work force are incompetent and only have a minimal capacity to be trained to a point where they can competently perform their jobs. In a word, we're screwed! And all this has created the pressure cooker situation that desertrat mentioned.
BTW, The Bell Curve was published in the 1990s. It has been viciously attacked by SJW types, but it has increased in popularity over the years because the facts that it presents are irrefutable. Any intellectually honest person would recognize the truth presented in the book. It's a long read, but it's an amazing read. However, don't blame the messenger. It's the message that policy makers need to be aware of.