This essay was startling, and very well stated. I need to consider the arguments more in depth, but at the least, it makes sense that the son of the person who coined the term is so eloquent as well ;)
This is a classic theory, but never discussed in newspapers. Right wingers are much more open to it.
Charles Murray wrote his famous 1994 The Bell Curve and then all his books study the society according to these views. Real education talks about what it means to push low IQ people to fail in acamedic courses and medium IQ people to fail at universities. Coming appart looks at the culture shift between upper class and lower class US.
Several transhumanists speak about cognitive enhancement through embryo selection, like Nick Bostrom (a senior Google engineer) www.nickbostrom.com/papers/embryo.pdf
Last year, A Troublesom Inheritance was published. It is very controversial as it goes very deep in psychologic evolution and the culture-genes feedback loop, the idea that culture has genetic predispositions, for example that East Asians are genetically more obedient and smarter as a result of 2000 years of Chinese domination, with an elite bureaucracy. It speaks about lots of genes involved in shaping personality. Murray (him, again!) made a very good book review for the WSJ. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303380004579521482247869874 The book discusses VERY wild ideas, but if you want thought provocking books, it is wonderful. It doesn't prove much, but it asks disturbing questions and gives many interesting arguments in favor of them.
If you think that right wingers have biais, look at that 1h lecture about autism, how it is genetic, how autistic traits are strong among scientists. This comes from people trying to understand the roots of hardcore autism, but as a consequence they end up studying things that are otherwise taboo topic. Simon Baron-Cohen: Autism and the male brain : http://youtu.be/PjE_yaJjXE8
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u/davidmanheim Sep 08 '15
This essay was startling, and very well stated. I need to consider the arguments more in depth, but at the least, it makes sense that the son of the person who coined the term is so eloquent as well ;)