Edward Ring asks “Why the Middle Class Is Being Destroyed.” Toward the end of his column, he explores
various reasons for the collapse of societal values and priorities that those
of us -- of a certain age -- grew up with.
He concludes:
. . . Meanwhile, the ongoing
expansion of the custodial state is concurrent with the average IQ of
Americans shifting
into decline. This shouldn’t be surprising. The so-called Flynn
Effect, the theory that social and economic progress caused IQ scores to
rise in the early 20th century, has now been thrown into reverse. Many factors
could explain this reversal, but because it is happening universally, we might
start by implicating a degraded system of public education, a dumbed-down
media, the diversions of mindless, endless online rubbish, the collapse of
meritocracy, and the replacement of the pursuit of excellence with the quest to
acquire status and rewards by defining oneself as a victim.
The controversy over one chapter in
[Richard] Herrnstein and [Charles] Murray’s book [The Bell Curve] should not diminish the fact that, way back in
1994, their work anticipated two of the most decisive trends in the world
today: The emergence of a cognitive elite, and, for the first time in history,
the almost total convergence of intellectuals with the financial elite. The
consequence, an apparent consensus among the two groups to destroy the middle
class to protect their own interests while claiming they’re saving the planet
and promoting “equity,” should surprise nobody.
It’s the easy path. But it’s the
wrong path.
Full article at American
Greatness is here.
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