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NATURAL INEQUALITY is the elephant in the room for our age. It's simply true that redirecting decision making power AWAY from high IQ people cost nations billions every year. But every major pillar of contemporary politics, from affirmative action to equity policies, does just this.
Countries serious about prosperity, like Singapore, are transparently elitist and reap the rewards. But most of the world is buckling under the intellectual weight of democracy.
Infrastructure is uglier, more expensive, and has a shorter lifespan than before. Culture is reduced to endless & uninventive recycling of old stuff. Politicians will string together whatever convenient lies they need to to keep power.
The fundamental questions, raised by Dostoevsky, are buried under triviality:
"Whom can we now consider our best people? Most important, where shall we find them? Who will take the responsibility for proclaiming them the best, and on what basis?"
Thomas Carlyle wrote that the pleb who does not submit to the higher vision of the aristocrat is as bad as the aristocrat who callously exploits the plebs.
But modern politics is by the plebs, for the plebs, of the plebs.
However...
Politics is a subset of nature, and nature itself is all power, dominance, violence, and hierarchies. The jungle is not banished but remains restless on the edges of civilization.
It will return.
Mike