This is both outrageous and not surprising at all. Par for the course today.
But here's the rub of all this...
There literally should be this sort of push to get super smart guys in industries like this.
I have a particularly high IQ. I don't think it makes me better than anyone. In fact, if you have a high IQ and you're lazy, then go fuck yourself. You don't deserve anything just for having a high IQ.
BUT...if you have a high IQ and are willing to work hard, then yes, you should be able to apply that and have success in your life.
So here's the thing I've wondered for years. I was IQ tested at a very early age and my parents were told they could send me to a Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) program. They decided not to, and I respect that decision. I agree with it actually. They wanted me to be a "normal kid" and all that.
There's a lot to unpack about my life and how I got to where I am now, a low end factory worker who finds himself going back to college for a difficult engineering technician degree and the faculty actually ask me how I got steered to the worthless 4 year degree I got 15 years ago, but I've always wondered one thing...
If our society actually has these GATE programs, where they single out the "super smart kids" and put them in special programs...then where are those kids right now? Where are the GATE kids?
It seems more like they singled them out and rounded them up, because we have anything but an intelligent world right now. It actually seems more like we have a world utterly devoid of those kids. And now "they" are actively trying to hire more retarded people?
I swear, if we somehow manage to not be destroyed as a society...historians of the future will look back at now and struggle to understand ANY OF IT. None of this makes any fucking sense. Not only dose it not make sense that this is, and has been, going on, but it MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE that this effort hasn't been stopped.
we_kill_creativity 0 points 4 months ago
This is both outrageous and not surprising at all. Par for the course today.
But here's the rub of all this...
There literally should be this sort of push to get super smart guys in industries like this.
I have a particularly high IQ. I don't think it makes me better than anyone. In fact, if you have a high IQ and you're lazy, then go fuck yourself. You don't deserve anything just for having a high IQ.
BUT...if you have a high IQ and are willing to work hard, then yes, you should be able to apply that and have success in your life.
So here's the thing I've wondered for years. I was IQ tested at a very early age and my parents were told they could send me to a Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) program. They decided not to, and I respect that decision. I agree with it actually. They wanted me to be a "normal kid" and all that.
There's a lot to unpack about my life and how I got to where I am now, a low end factory worker who finds himself going back to college for a difficult engineering technician degree and the faculty actually ask me how I got steered to the worthless 4 year degree I got 15 years ago, but I've always wondered one thing...
If our society actually has these GATE programs, where they single out the "super smart kids" and put them in special programs...then where are those kids right now? Where are the GATE kids?
It seems more like they singled them out and rounded them up, because we have anything but an intelligent world right now. It actually seems more like we have a world utterly devoid of those kids. And now "they" are actively trying to hire more retarded people?
I swear, if we somehow manage to not be destroyed as a society...historians of the future will look back at now and struggle to understand ANY OF IT. None of this makes any fucking sense. Not only dose it not make sense that this is, and has been, going on, but it MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE that this effort hasn't been stopped.
How did the adults let clown world go this far? The fact that the largest percentage of male suicides is the oldest group of people makes a very morbid kind of sense, but the fact that 25-44 year old males make up the second highest percentage makes even more sense because of stories like this.