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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
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. is the title of a recent book by Charles Murray: http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-State-America-1960-2010/dp/0307453421/ref= cm_cr_pr_product_top You don’t really have to buy the book. There’s a Youtube presentation of his that lasts about an hour that pretty much summarizes; the rest is supporting graphs. I’m pretty much a conservative, which anyone paying attention to my posts can figure out, yet I take issue with Murray’s conclusions. I’m interested in opinions contrary to his own. One of my issues is with his idea of the “cognitive elite”. They may indeed be very intelligent,as measured by academia, but I found them in my business experience not very thoughtful and wholly amoral as regards to their appreciation of the consequences of their ordained power. In my experience, they treating the manufacturing sector as an commodity wholly eviscerated it leading to its fall as a prime creator of value to be traded around the world. I never found them to be admired or envied and frankly see them, in business, in the same camp as contingency lawyers; predators upon a system that never had them in mind. . [This message has been edited by Huan Yi (03-20-2012 08:03 PM).] |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
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. There are a number of discussions of Murray's book involving Murray that can be viewed on the net. One of the things I think he keeps on missing regarding the "cognitive elite" is that they're not making their money by creating anything except "wealth" by words or numbers. If this "cognitive elite" is so intelligent why did the country almost melt down in 2008? I think it's because the "elite" like idiot savants are very good at games played on the financial market, in government, and courts of civil law, while wholly unable to know how, for example, to bend steel into anything anyone in the real world would buy . . |
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