You have no right to lecture me for the manner and form I use the internet I pay.

@@TheEthinicTrender Good lord I can’t believe people like you exist. The fact that you took a general statement that wasn’t even directed to you so personally is scary. I’m sure no one gives a damn about your only fans and tinder subscriptions. Keep it pushing and stop making this wonderful compliment to Dr. Peterson about you.

@@TheEthinicTrender Actually he does have that right. It's called freedom of speech :) You're also free to swiping dating apps, and mindless scrolling through social media though

@@mactheo2574 Relax, he's joking.

I concur! We have the availability of the sum of humankind’s knowledge at our fingertips while we amuse ourselves with cat videos, social media 'comparinitis’ and the like, is squandering our precious treasure of time. "This species has amused it’s self to death” Perhaps Roger Waters was correct?

You shouldn’t believe in something without any evidence of it.

If you are of Asian extraction, & are otherwise have the check marks in academics / volunteer activities/ leadership, chances are you will be refused acceptance into North American elite Universities. That's because the university desires a racial diversity of the student body.

wow! I'm end 30's, never studied, but would always have liked to get into topics deeper and get a degree. I recently heard about going to Uni in Ghana - cheap and cheerful and probably one of the few conservative and common sense places in this world ;)

​@@End_Zionism he never said they were Muslim... I understand you make that assumption from him saying "Middle East" but still, those two don't necessarily go together.

@@End_Zionism discipline most likely. Parents are super strict

Sorry for your outrageous suffering but applaud your success. The treatment of very smart people that you endured seems to me would be less likely in western Europe, especially Scandinavia, but I have no hard evidence to support that intuition, just the personal experience of having grown up with European intellectuals. Re the alienation of the genius, isn't it true that early childhood education is largely about socialization? How are people like you or like me (140) supposed to fit in when the avg is 100? And dating? If you are a very art female? Ugh - stay away from male geniuses with their male egos.

As a Mensa member, I can certify that you’re lying since Mensa DOES NOT provide any IQ score, never did and never will. They only validate whether you’re in the top 2% of the population or not, nothing more. I find disturbing that people writing this sort of texts, boasting about their achievements and exalting their « high IQ » are unable to do even the most basic research, and end up mentioning Mensa in a manner giving away they’re full of crap.

Just curious, what caused the initial gpa?

There's a lot of people with150+ IQ on KZfaq comments, so much so that together they would be more numerous than the actual number of 150+ IQ in the world

@@harrycooper5231 U JELLY BRUV?

@ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ʙ ᴘᴇᴛᴇʀsᴏɴ I'll make a note to KZfaq that you are a bot instead.

I recall taking the Asvab and other tests in high school (1995) and having military recruiters chase me. For months they’d show up at my home etc. i took those tests one day on a whim. For fun . Not really being serious about joining up. It was after that , that I realized how desperate they were for intelligent people. It was like being the #1 football player on earth and being pursued by Bama , UGA and Notre dame. It’s a long story as to why I wasn’t of a mind to join up at the time. And it has nothing to do with not liking the idea. And everything to do with my situation at home. Just thought that kind of fit in with the comment here.

Im certain the actions of the usa military over the past. 70+ years are the dominant reason for the drop off. People have eyes.

That and the reasoning for 99% of recruits is pursuit of college $$ and healthcare. And college degrees are mostly useless now. Or. Atleast in 99% of cases. All my friends have 4 year degrees and i work at a supermarket with no degree and have no debts and a reasonable savings. People arent buying the bullshit anymore.

@@stephensinilas8611 the recent bungling of Afghanistan certainly didn't help. There are dozens of reasons people don't serve anymore.

or at least helping some of us see where stuff went all pear/gourd shaped

@@bloviatormaximus1766 we are all still learning my friend

@@user-do2by8pp4n obviously a fake account

@@Platinum1812 He wouldn’t use ALL CAPS 😅

To be fair, Jordan's volatile and divisive posts on Twitter vs his drawn out reasonable discussions on KZfaq is also a massive difference. He needs to realise Twitter is not a good platform for him, especially since he loves to play devil's advocate, and the Twitter character limit is not designed for that.

@@robbiemedica2652 he definitely makes the same type of comments in conversations, but yea there is more nuance within the discussions. Twitter is also just like that in general. If he was polite it would be like bringing a knife to a gun fight. And he’s still not as impolite as the people calling white men racist, sexist oppressors. If he were to get as impolite as them there’s some ugly bombs that could be dropped

The huge number of bots on Twitter would be a factor.

Twitter is a filthy cesspool.

Agreed. He was the absolute expert on this subject here. He wrote a book on the very subject ofc and so brought great research and historical knowledge to the topic.

U better like 😛

​@Franklin Fleming .. m,,

Jordan Peterson's podcasts are the ones I subscribed without liking each and every one.

My thoughts, Exactly

No action is honorable if taken involuntarily.

What's_your definition of Honor?

Just as the people have turned their backs on God, God shall turn his back on the people. We simply and purely deserve everything that’s happening to us.

@@combativeThinker I've prayed my whole life and gotten zero replies. I believe in science and modern study.

All bots here

Who are "them?" What do you know about American history?

Why would the best person getting the job be a horrible world?

@@gregorykelly8000 The best fit inherently is the one with the most merit. It’s comes down to how you define that.

The doctor said it was wrong to give the best job to the best qualified. Why?

@@gregorykelly8000 the most qualified has the most merit. We are discussing the noun, right?

Thanks to the 11+ I will never forget how hopeless I was and how much I wanted to die, especially as a 10 year old.

@@quantumfizzics9265 how very sad. I should imagine too much pressure was placed on you by parents or peers?

We still have the 11 plus though ?

Buncha twats

If you had the chance to attend one of the best grammar schools in the country, why do you say " me and another boy" instead of "another boy and I" ? That is grammar, no?

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Well put, catlady...

I shouldn't have been pursuing a career (still working amd contributing to society, just not a career) until I was in my late 20s. I was totally useless, incompetent, and stupid. Now im only partially those things.

@@RyanMoreau I am sorry but you are wrong.

@@RyanMoreau Sure, care to explain where this is coming from: ''Boys reading vision only really develops from about 8 to 10 years old.'' ?

@@RyanMoreau Alright still, do you have any kids?

Makes me nervous about “special class” hiring quotas

What are some of your beliefs? I'll tell you if you should be fired or not lol 😆

I completely get that I have wanted to speak up for over a decade, but I am well aware they just kill ppl like me. Plus, ik the secrets of so many that could easily pull a gun trigger & get away with it. Then the job thing, ik no one would want to hire me. One I would go against the ppl I went to college to work for, others would be afraid to hire me, just think I was completely crazy.

@@iamanomas it's just an easy way for people to refer to views of the radical left. It's certainly less offensive and divisive than snowflake.

@@iamanomas Wrong. Like it or not it’s the word that points to this pathological package of ideas. It’s useful and most people know what you mean when it’s used. The word “woke” isn’t divisive. It’s wokeism that’s the problem. People using this word to better allocate their defence of our culture are the solution.

@@iamanomas thought police

From what I've learned from Jordan's class(as in university) lectures, I have a notion that it could be attributed to the inescapable tendency for wealth to redistribute according to the Pareto Distribution, even if it's funneled to the poor, and where even while it's in a fair economy of supply and demand; a small minority of people get a huge majority of wealth, and it trickles down less and less from there. And not even by slanted manipulated means, but by competence. Whatever's going on to circumvent that outcome artificially, I don't think it will last.

His Twitter stuff is insane these days tho lmao

@@VannywiththeFanny In what sense?

@@philosophiahelvetica In what sense what? Are you playing dumb? He's out here dead-naming trans people like he's lost his mind. How can such a well educated man STILL end up losing his mind? Really tho, I'm seriously asking. Didn't he have a drug or pill problem? He's been wild lately.

@@VannywiththeFanny are wokesters like yourself required to do a tour of youtube?

Read the article: The Intellectual We Deserve by Nathan J. Robinson; listen to the Sam Harris podcast with Peterson: "#62 - WHAT IS TRUE?" and Peterson's debate with Matt Dillahunty on KZfaq.

that is such an obviously poor decision on their part and doesnt require someone like Peterson to see the negative consequences. (education will only get worse, literacy rates will drop, propaganda will flourish, they wont be able to keep up in any way with the global market, etc.) because of the lack of intellectual sustenance in the question i feel like theres something youre looking for him to validate some opinion you hold in relation to it, but i honestly cant even find it. not trying to be a total asshole, but your comment legitimately confused me on multiple levels

@@hamnkapten7977 There was no question. Obviously it's a poor decision. South Africa gets little to no international coverage, meaning no international critique to bad decisions. This, and the fact that the majority of South Africa's voters have little to no education of politics, specifically the global history thereof, means that those who rule are left to run amok. A platform such as this would surely help, but is not the responsibility of this man, hence the words 'unlikely', and 'hope'. You shouldn't jump to conclusions and believe yourself so readily.

@@angrytedtalks It does seem to me that we live in a general society that increasingly values optics above objective standards - the way something looks is more important than what it actually is - a snake eating its tail comes to mind. May your kids find the tools they need to navigate this burden, and free themselves from it.

STOP DOCTORING THIS MAN! FFS it’s repulsive and pathetic. Take your cult thinking somewhere else.

This route still exists for many grammar schools in the UK.

There was still an opportunity to sit something called a 12-plus examination - about 18 months after the 11-plus - on application to do so back in about 2007, call it c.15 years ago. I remember a small number of kids in the first year of secondary who were leagues ahead of everyone else, despite having failed the 11-plus by some margin. A year, at that age, seemed to have the ability to make a huge difference in cognitive development in some people.

Hi Bobby, we did not have that requirement in the US. In high school, grades 9-12, we were told in junior year, if I recall correctly, we were advised about SATs. I had just started high school in 65. In California, although I was unaware at the time and did not have parents who cared 🙄, I did well on my SATs, scoring in the 98th percentile. Maybe that wasn’t very good. Oh well.

I was one of the last … the last 11 plus year… 1973

I do-also a chance for joining the 6th form later if your CSEs were good to do A levels.

As long as the federal reserve money won't be involved.

" Tiger Parenting. " Amy Chua's book brought the term into North American parenting slang. Students of Taiwanese/Chinese/ Indian / Nigerian parents have had academic success. The parenting strategy of Tiger Parenting is the key. Some of that is covered in Chua's book.

Spoiler: The same things drive both. Awareness is what differentiates the effect.

@@BlueEternities That's a good point to think about, I guess we keep our eyes open to see light, and shut to create darkness. Attention

@@shawntucker9283 Well both the awareness of the observer and awareness of the actor can be modulated to strong effect. It's much easier to perceive the unity when you begin to recognize the lessons inherent in all things that we can possibly suffer as living minds. Also to recognize that no one is the villain in their own story, even if they truly believe they are. We act with goals, at very least to alleviate pain. And finally to acknowledge that all language is, by nature, not truth. It is simply an effective tool for approximating. And it can only approximate one perspective at a time, though it can be a more or less encompassing perspective. Most things we perceive as negative, are just implying that we must change, something we cannot avoid anyways. Though by changing ourselves and our perspective intentionally, we can avoid "negative" things almost completely. Sorry to go on. I just enjoy helping those who are interested in expanding their awareness as you showed. Also, it's a great opportunity for me to attempt to put these ideas into words. = ) I wish you all the best!

@@BlueEternities hi, wow very cool, and inspiring comments. I'll try to think about what u said more in depth. And thanks. What I'm hoping is Peterson can articulate a more precise approximation of humanity in the near future. I've been thinking about this unity or lately I'm lightly equating it with this grey area that is the blend of what we might conceive as known/ unknown I'd suppose. There seems to be less drive to the known and more vitality to discover the unknown. This third animating spirit that we are acting and observing with kind of like flashing a light everywhere in the darkness looking for an answer. This snake in the walled garden Peterson talks about, has somehow begun to object itself as a social construct, idk. A collective conscious manifestation that we construct through social spell casting? Words? Idk A driving force from unconsciousness. As we have evolved and gained intelligences we have never removed it. It's obvious it was needed to construct the world. And perhaps maintain procession. It's sort of the animating spirit of the duality in ouroboros, proceeding, and looking for this utopia. Whatever that spirit is, can it ever give up that obsession and what would that look like, and mean to the human race. Definitely not meritocracy! Anyway, my nutty thoughts no doubt. Take care and best of luck.

@@shawntucker9283 The best place to look for ideas, that I've found, is in looking at how our bodies handle such differentiation of tasks. I think if we begin to look at what connects us, and how similar we all are, it's inevitable that we realize that we humans are like cells in our bodies. Our task is to find what we're good at, and do that in a way that we can all benefit as much as possible from the skill. I think lately we've just been creating reasons for people to not give everything they do, their all. A solar flare could really put things into perspective, huh?

👌🏼it’s a level of internal destruction and subversion of the society, that I don’t think humanity has seen yet. When the fairytales are wrapping up, it seems those that have power will destroy everything and future potential of the populace, to maintain the image of the fairytale they have power mechanisms over.

I am so sorry for the tragic loss of your daughter. Is there no charter or private school near you that will give your son a scholarship? If ever I heard of a deserving case, it's yours. If none, then take your son out of school before they destroy his love of learning. Universities are now more keen to accept those children that were homeschooled or better still, unschooled over those that took the traditional route of graduating from high school. Why? Because they have proven themselves to have self discipline. Even 30 years ago I had the same problem with my sons' school. Straight A student, but failed his homework because he never did it, so his grades were affected. What's the point? If the student understands the work, then homework is just busy work. Its' training our children to shut up and obey. Our schools need a complete overhaul.

I believe this guy still calls for mandated diversity because something is owed to non-immigrant relatives of American slaves, according to him.

@@travisholmes3751 In war and killing, nothing can be replaced by the ones that survive it. For sure, bending to natives and showing the remorse by fast forwarding them to power is not a way of life. This people, the ones that survived, are proud. Should allow them on the back door because some of us feel ashamed of what our ancestors did? Maybe. But, did we ask them if they want that? Did we ask them if they want to prove themselves? I have lived in socialism / communism. Is not nice. Is not good to have the gov ''taking care of your needs''. It sounds appealing to the ones that hear the idea, but living in that idea is far worse than capitalism ever could be. I don't say that capitalism is perfect. It is not hence you come to the table maybe with nothing. But from nothing, something will be made if you culture your skills, if you follow your heart. In socialism, you have no heart and you have no dreams. You simply don't know how.

Its almost like affirmative action is bad. Looking for justifications is as simply is finding the reasons people lie to themselves and how when those people hold power, those lies affect the culture. For better or worse.

Well said. Even though it is often based in a noble ideal of recompense it really boils down to being a method of legislating equality of outcome which, never works out well and, is entirely anti-meritorious. Now if we could find some way to make sure that we preserve equality of opportunity and eliminate any unjust bias, that would be vastly more beneficial to a society and would ensure that it succeeds based on the merits it's people bring to the table instead of one small piece of the identities they are born with.

The majority of university graduates are now women (it's around 60/40). Do we talk about how we need more men to graduate now? No, we're talking about why we don't have 50% women in STEM. Women under 30 on average make more money now than men. Are we happy now? No, we still talk about how it's a problem that all women on average make less money than all men. It will never be enough, it will just go on and on and on until the pendulum has swung way too far and will come crashing back at full speed I guess.

@@manmanman4825 White women followed by immigrants and their descendants are the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. The 1964 Civil Rights Act brought about Affirmative Action which was originally written to heal the wounds of 250 years of American Chattel Slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow; only Black American descendants of USA chattel slavery were supposed to be the only recipients.

Thomas Sowell has given a very persuasive argument against affirmative action.

Bots aren't smart but this place is packed with em

Idiotic statement

@@gmw3083 Daniel Tammet is demonstrably smarter yet.

@@stephenarling1667 ok

Read the article: The Intellectual We Deserve by Nathan J. Robinson; listen to the Sam Harris podcast with Peterson: "#62 - WHAT IS TRUE?" and Peterson's debate with Matt Dillahunty on KZfaq. All is a freely available on the web. Sorry KZfaq doesn't seem to let me post links.

JBP: Define "long preview".

That wasn’t all that long, man. Be thankful for the content, sheesh.

@@m.thousands1848 Sharing feedback doesn't mean she isn't thankful - I think her statement was constructive and positive. (And I agree with her constructive feedback - 90 second preview is too much.)

Time is a relative term comrade.

Have you heard of the latest covid case numbers? If not, you will tomorrow and the day after

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Same here. If you did well in the first two years of Secondary Education then there was a possibility of moving into a higher school. Against that, there were the teachers (not all) who adopted the attitude that 11+ 'failures' would not get far in life. One teacher I recall, said that with exceptional effort, we might just make a career as an electrician. Absolutely nothing wrong in that as a career of course but, to have set it as a, probably unrealistic, expectation, was criminal. Our French teacher actually said that there was little chance of any of us ever going to France so, little point in trying very hard. Sadly, I believed her which did not serve me well when I moved to France twenty years ago. And I taught Electrical Engineering for a spell at college before moving into Commercail IT. I also had the same confusion with the test itself. I had never encountered a test of that type. A little coaching would have made a world of difference.

There has to be a hierarchy of roles. I don't see a problem with it. I don't want to be a manager. Others do. It's not always about haves and have nots.

@@toby9999 Hierachies are fine when its based on competence, capabilities and experience. The problem is most hierachies are not based on merit but who you know and which family youre born into. Thats a receipy for disaster.

Or maybe, what defines merit in a management role is entirely different to what defines merit in a technical role. People who are good at management don't even necessarily need to be that high in IQ, but they have to be disagreeable enough and also conscientious enough.

@@robbiemedica2652 Thats correct, management skills are dependant on experience. Competency and reasonable foresight is hugely important in management, this also a skill. However most managers are completely incompetent and cant think critically beyond next months bonus cheque.

Genuine noIQer or troll 🤔?

@@Nathan_Lile Never trolled anyone or anything. Real ans attentive. Thank you.

I hope you are right.

Meritocracy will return when the income disparity is gone. China can do it because they don't have any, or are very minimal. Until that happens, meritocracy will continue to benefit only the wealthy. Further widening the gap

@@MM-vs2et Meritocracy will return when the system collapses due to systemic incompetence and we need to rebuild from the ashes.

@@MM-vs2et What did you mean by income disparity?

@@MM-vs2et China has massive income disparity. China isn't even communist anymore, it's more similar to German National Socialism than it is to communism. The treatment of the Uighurs is even analogous with Jews under the German National Socialist Party.

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Thomas Sowells book “Charter Schools and Their Enemies” is a great book. Actually, I’ve never found a Thomas Sowell book I didn’t like. The teachers unions and politicians that get into bed with them 🤮 the unions are deathly afraid of meritocracy within their own industry.

@@TheJpwzrd I have read several of Sowell's books too. He is an absolute treasure.

Thanks! ( From a despicable Boomer )

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Whats a boomer ?...i dropped out of working in companies, ive been self employed the last 15 years

I was raised by boomers that didnt much believe in being less than your best. Though part of an entirely different generation and its rough. Its legit keep the skilled people doing the actual work and promote the idiots to management.

Don't underestimate the power of experience. After a while you've seen and made a lot of mistakes, and you can instinctively smell them. Would you call that wisdom?

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

His wife was speaking about their daughter. I wish I could remember the short video it came from.

he made a video with his son and daughter

Perhaps a college education, versus other types, should be chosen less often and find itself, as a result, with greater competition in trade. Alternatives for individuals lessens monopolies.

At least for literature, go back to the core curriculum of the classics and leave the rest for university, most of it is just over-hyped in any case. Same could be said of civics, which they stopped teaching in exchange for who knows what. The problem is academics always overcomplicate things. I learned more on so many subjects from three-minute Schoolhouse Rock cartoons than I did in school, where we were taught nothing about the Constitution (and I mean nothing) and almost nothing about basic grammar. But we were taught a lot about being yourself and expressing your feelings, and how it was okay for boys to cry and play with dolls, which there seemed to be endless time for.

Trade schools vs college is another conversation altogether. There is an overflow from HS subjects into the college years partly because of my point that there is more and more ground to cover but also because teenagers are promiscuous in recent generations, and using drugs and alcohol, therefore those who can afford to go to college and are willing to go through the process are being fed secondary education in college. Very sad to hear about how our schools led to teaching it's ok for boys to cry in lieu of teaching the classics etc. In Europe, at least in the time of my parents who had been born approx 100 yrs ago, the secondary sch teacher was respected the way the U.S. respects college professors, and the respect was deserved from what I gather. My mother got 2 yrs college credit for her secondary sch Ed when she came to the U.S. as a WWII refugee. Why is it that our brightest and most talented citizens do not become teachers? They don't want to be part of a baby sitting institution. Sounds very cynical but dumbing down Americans since the American Revolution must have been profitable for industrialists, war machines, and other very big business. Those of us in the dumbed down U.S. might do better on the upcoming Fourth of July celebrations to recall the ideals of our great Constitution, not the ideologies of very poorly educated extremists.

@@karenottenelias1471 I don't disagree with you on most of what you wrote, but your negative view about 'teaching boys that's it's ok to cry' is at best unhealthy. Teaching younger males on how to healthily manage their emotions and mental health is a perfectly reasonable objective, given the ongoing increase in mental health issues across all age demographics including younger people. And part of managing that mental health is not trying to bottle up everything and to be able to recognize, accept and process difficult thoughts and emotions in a healthy and realistic way. If crying is part of that process, which it often has been historically and currently in many cultures around the world, then there isn't anything wrong with it.

@@jamesclarke2789 Totally agree. I was reacting to another commenter and should have clarified that that was what I was doing. That was what he remembered of his education.

I'd imagine an entire society that takes for granted the fact that they are elite intellectually would have members that are predisposed to working smarter

which is why we need standardized forms of testing.

@@naughti_penguin2340 and stricter anti-cheating mechanisms 🎥in early institutions🕵️

@@iamanomas I can imagine that Quebec was involved somehow

@@Laocoon283 I suspect when the original comment says, "...if a highschool for example gives high scores to its students..." it means if grades are inflated, and given without being earned. Unfortunately in my little corner of the world I see this a fair bit, and it's highly detrimental to students.

Wrong message. There are plenty of success stories of people who did NOT enter the indoctrination system.

Indeed. There is modern day slavery going on around the world, but US AA is so concerned with historical issues that we ignore the current ones. It's a fairly backwards idea.

So why are snails slow? We don't need to conjure these fanciful iterations as to how to enact the "law," as if it's some complicated mystery. Freedom and autonomy is all that is needed. Hands down, bar none. And whatever "issue" you think society needs to solve will rectify itself - it's something like, "mind your own fucking business."

@Greg I think reliability, likability and passion are important, especially reliability. Intelligence and experience are meaningless to merit if someone never shows up. But likability is a relating function which should only count for the social credit someone receives at work functions, outside of work, or perhaps at the pool table on breaks. It is irrelevant to someone’s job performance. And holding someone to the standard of likability at work is likely to make them irascible and unlikeable as their competence is consistently overlooked for non-goal-relevant social quirks. Furthermore, people can be likeable in different ways and contexts. The bore of the party might be really likeable as a professional, diligent and emotionally robust section head of a special-operations fireteam. And contrary to his stoic, almost cold demeanour outside of work, he might bizarrely lighten up and come alive in such contexts, being a source of stability and positivity, even light-heartedness, while others around him (or her) are crumbling. Conflating conventional meritocratic criteria with feminine, work-redundant qualities is a surefire way to corrupt the traditional, timeless and effective features of a functioning meritocracy, such that disorientation and disillusionment obtain. As for passion, it depends what you mean. Raising one’s voice, gestating wildly, rushing around the place and increasing the pitch of your speech might seem to exude passion, but is passion a more internal and serious dedication to one’s craft than mere bodily and oral signs can convey? Absolutely. The person throwing in overtime without permission and without bragging is passionate. The peacocking extrovert is substituting effeminate gesticulation for the only kind of passion we care about in the context of work. So be passionate, but actions will demonstrate this burning soul fire more than any amount of self-admission or social exhibition ever could. Not to mention that just as with trait likability, someone’s passion (real passion as I defined above) is likely to wane if they are consistently held to irrelevant standards of occupational merit such as likability, relatability or sameness. A small parting note on the need for group sameness. Sameness creates stable groups provided the dimensions along which sameness occurs is important to the group, such that differences along these dimensions would invoke the group’s hostilities. Provided the type of non-similarity a group member manifests does not invoke a threat response- there’s no issue. We could address and modify the threat response, or leave it be and examine the allowable degrees of group divergence. I suspect option one is too difficult as a general approach because some of these xenophobic impulses are too deeply rooted: racism being a prime example. Therefore, since it is too difficult to rewire someone’s threat-response relating to this dimension of difference, we ought not create groups allowing differences along this dimension- ethnically homogenous groups are therefore preferable, and are more practically effective to those who pay attention. But as for allowable degrees of difference, intellectual diversity and diversity of temperament and experience are critical to a well-balanced team and to their experiencing growth over time (as its constituents will naturally challenge each other and promote one another’s growth). So, in summary, if you value ‘sameness’ then we should homogenise ethnically, unity of culture being a necessary prerequisite to this end. The former is not achievable within any reasonable timeframe, at least not here in the UK, but we can aim for the latter with the former as a distant benchmark. Meanwhile, diversity of thought should again be championed as both a staple of intellectual progress and of healthy, free individual self-expression.

Why is everyone here trying to intellectualize such a blatant truism; “Life gets better… when you do better”

@@zacksymes Because we are curious and ask questions. And that statement begs the question ‘what is better?’

@Greg I don’t understand why you separated intelligence and experience from the other parameters - to me they all belong together and make up the same meritocratic parameter. I’m not sure of too too many people saying “look at just capability and that’s it” For a silly example of picking a spouse; we don’t look at just their reproductive hip ratio. That is to say, we don’t only take into account their capability to give us children. All in all it’s obviously a host of factors that make someone rise to the top of any hierarchy; whether that be life, business, relationships, or the creative fields that require more of a “talent” etc.