(September 4, 2012 at 1:52 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: That doesn't surprise me. How many knuckle-dragging mouth-breather neanderthals in our society are considered to be desirable or superior just because they have big muscles/tits?
I think the real Neanderthals, were far more intelligent than is commonly accepted, but I go along with the gist of what you are saying totally.
I would contend. We have an education system that selects for those that learn by wrote really fast, but does not realise that understanding a subject is more than just having a few checkable facts. That those that rise to the top are the ones who are good at tunnel vision and infighting, not those with the ability to see the wider context, and who are able to think a problem through.
Put it this way two and a half thousand years ago the Chinese were the most advanced people on earth. Then they got a central administration, with a civil service, and an education system with examinations that selected the elite, and they hardly invented another thing.
That is my personal view anyway.
