tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post4513732585565554043..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Requiem for an educational systemDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-65406091736366830902021-06-01T22:56:51.334-04:002021-06-01T22:56:51.334-04:00Professor
"...Writing Baseball Greatness, I ...Professor<br /><br />"...Writing Baseball Greatness, I discovered that among 20,000 men who had played in the major leagues since 1900, about 100--.5 per cent--were much better than anyone else. I think the same is true of any complex field of endeavor, and certainly of intellectual endeavor..." DK <br /><br />This is really, frankly, Ayn Rand Alan Greenspan Howard Roark Dagny Taggart John Galt kind of stuff.<br /><br />But, apparently, those are your views....<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-46712038922455278362021-06-01T12:22:59.337-04:002021-06-01T12:22:59.337-04:00i neglected to mention also Nicholas Wade, A Troub...i neglected to mention also Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritqance.<br />It is a must read.<br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-6438456284258808312021-06-01T12:16:48.320-04:002021-06-01T12:16:48.320-04:00Professor
Here are some comments re your last par...Professor<br /><br />Here are some comments re your last paragraph only.<br />Citations are included for those who bother with them.<br /><br />Inequality is not at either historic or prehistoric highs. Pace Piketty, Rodrik, DK, et al.<br /><br />Inequality is not more and more correlated with levels of educational achievement, but rather with factors like race, ethnicity, and population numbers, which your post also itself appears to demonstrate. Cf. also Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race, Ch 8. R Collins, The Credential Society.<br /><br />Athletic talent is not randomly distributed throughout all individuals either here or on the planet, but rather quite strikingly by race breeding and ethnicity. See Sowell, op. cit., Michael Lewis, The Blind Side.<br /><br />"The same" is not true of any complex field of endeavor, but the opposite as noted above.<br /><br />We never had a true meritocracy here except in the minds of NYT pundits like David Brooks. See R Collins, The Credential Society.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-57936513943897726832021-05-30T14:59:28.797-04:002021-05-30T14:59:28.797-04:00Professor
Great post. Many topics suggest comment...Professor<br /><br />Great post. Many topics suggest comment. Jewish immigrants and refugees have, by accident and ideological default, come to run things here for a long time, behind both parties. <br /><br />The NYT knows this better than anyone, and engineered it over a long period of time.<br /><br />That has changed.<br /><br />It was never, for them, the Jews here, or for any other races here or elsewhere, really about American whites or negroes, or white-negro relations per se, good or bad, that was important in itself. <br /><br />The NYT has continued to push white negro antagonisms for their own other agendas, not for either whites' or negroes' sake here.<br /><br />Much bigger race and ethnic stakes have now long been in play since even WWI, not on the US domestic political social and ethnic playing table, but rather, and much more importantly, on the global table.<br /><br />The Asians here, especially at the university level, play now only against each other, in a snakelike rivalry, almost ignoring the lesser academic whites or negroes around them. <br /><br />In the elite universities, it is not mainly Asian Americans, but rather Asian nationals disproportionately represented in the Ivy League halls.<br />This comment is already too long.<br />Sorry.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com