So says someone who is almost certain to be a liberal – who may even be an atheist, for all we know:
The March issue of the peer-reviewed Social Psychology Quarterly, a journal of the American Sociological Association, will contain an article entitled “Why Liberals and Atheists are More Intelligent.” Though certain to cause some outrage, the investigator has collected some statistically significant IQ evidence that supports his theory.
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, poses the theory that the more intelligent people are, the more likely it is for them to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values in response to the challenges of the times.
Kanazawa says that humans are evolutionarily programmed to be conservative – to care mostly about family and friends, to believe in a supernatural power or God because of their paranoia about what they perceive as “unnatural” phenomenon, and, for men, to be polygamous.
“General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions,” says Kanazawa. “As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles.”
Peer reviewed? More like pin-head reviewed. There are two false assumptions which you first have to accept as true before you can even start to think liberals and atheists are smarter:
1. That not believing in God is evidence of advanced thinking.
2. That the solutions proposed by liberals were in actual response to novel circumstances and that the solutions were beneficial.
Not believing in God is does not mean you get to allow your mind free range – you have to constrict your thought in various ways lest an invalid thought about God or anything supernatural upsets the whole atheist apple cart. Not believing in God also cuts a person off from the most widespread human activity – worshiping God and subordinating our personal desires to the service of God and our fellow men.
Now, taking a look at some of the solutions to problems:
Governments getting hidebound and corrupt as time goes on? Not a novel problem – but liberals treated it as such. Solution proposed? Revolution not just overthrowing the government, but the entire social structure (France 1789, Russia 1917, eg), leading directly to massive slaughter, war and crime such as was never seen before.
Overpopulation? Never was a problem, but liberals thought it was…and thought it novel in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and still consider it a novel problem in the 21st. Solution? Early on it was to allow poor people to starve – later, as it became known that poor people can vote the concept changed to preventing the poor from having children and murdering the unborn.
Teen pregnancy? Could almost be considered a novel problem in that we used to marry off teenagers but then stopped doing it as more and more people left the farm for the city. Child-bearing and rearing is part of becoming a full adult, and the problem was how to give teens adult responsibilities in a changed environment. The liberal solution? Pretend that teens having sex unmarried in the city in the 1960’s was the same as teens having married sex on the farm in the 1920’s – then teach the kids to have sex at an ever younger age, provide them with birth control and abortion.
A small minority of the people in charge of most business enterprises? While not novel, liberals keep pretending there is an “aha!” moment in this – give them a new set of stats showing this or that alleged disparity between rich and poor, and they go “aha!” and try to convince us this horrible thing, just discovered, must be remedied. Solution? Switch from having a small minority of private individuals running the economic show to having a smaller minority of government individuals. Changing a million mean, old capitalists for a hundred thousand bureaucrats, as it were.
On and on it goes – it either isn’t novel, isn’t a solution or a combination of both…and yet here comes a study purporting to show that liberals are smarter and the evidence for this is their ability to take on novel problems. Just plain and simple stupid.
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