The First are Last but not in IQ, Intelligence!
Abstract
Americans seem no less deluded about capitalism than they are about religion. 20% of US citizens think thay are in the top 1% of wealth owners—in the Bill Gates bracket. It is about 60 million people—the same number that turned out for Bush in the previous election. They are deluded about how rich they are as well as about God. It is the ones with an IQ below 85. Another 60 million think they will get into the top 1% in their own lifetime! Honest! Their IQ is between 85 and 95. Needless to say, the top 1% always remains 1% only and never gets to be 20% or 40%, however long a lifetime one has, but these not too clever Americans apparently think otherwise—a miracle of the redneck God called “the American Dream”. It scares we observers of this simultaneously brilliant and insane nation.
© Dr M D Magee
Contents Updated: Friday, July 30, 1999
September 2004
IQ
Bush talks less about democracy than freedom, by which he does not particularly mean freedom for the individual—he is openly eroding that—but freedom for his corporate pals. The Iraqis for example had no freedom to choose Haliburton and any number of other exploiting US (mainly) corporations to run their economy, but eventually had a mockery of “free” elections in which Chalabi, a criminal but a chum of Bush’s, got practically no votes but got control of the Iraqi economy. Should the elected government attempt to get control of the economy for the Iraqi people, it would rapidly be unelected by the “coalition” military—the US forces in practice.
Americans seem no less deluded about capitalism than they are about religion. 20% of US citizens think thay are in the top 1% of wealth owners! They think they are in the same wealth bracket as Bill Gates. It means that about 60 million people—the same number of redneck Christians that turned out for Bush in the presidential election—are deluded about how rich they are, as well as about God. It is the proportion of the population with an IQ below 85. Another 60 million think they will get into the top 1% in their own lifetime! Honest! They must be the ones with an IQ between 85 and 95. Needless to say, the top 1% always remains 1% only and never gets to be 20% or 40%, however long a lifetime one has, but these not too clever Americans apparently think otherwise—a miracle of the redneck God called “the American Dream”. No one objects to dreams except the utter unreality of them. That scares observers of this simultaneously brilliant and insane nation.
The trouble is that the brilliant ones seem to be making no impact on the insane ones. Rather, it is the other way round. The most aggressive and militarized country on earth has around 120 million people deluded enough to class themselves in the ruling elite caste. When almost a half of the population are so ignorant they think they are in or close to the top hundredth in terms of wealth, it is hardly accidental that they consider it to be no business of government to alleviate poverty. Yet the bulk of these people think they will get into heaven without the least difficulty even though their holy book repeatedly tells them how difficult it is, especially when they are rich! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven. And who said it? The Christian God Jesus! For all the piety they display, these pious blockheads either disbelieve what their own God said or they do not care. To have the illusion you are in or near the top 1% when you might be near the middle of the population in terms of wealth is a delusion that can only be maintained by keeping the blacks and poor whites below you sufficiently impoverished. Paradoxically, according to the Christian God, they will be the ones who get into heaven.
Jesus said more than once that the last on earth would be the first in the kingdom of God. He cannot have been talking about IQ!
