[Trump challenges Tillerson to IQ test — if he called him a "moron" ] I understand MENSA has offered to sponsor an IQ contest. In American capitalist and imperialist politics relative IQs -if you accept the validity of the IQ theory- are an insignificant factor in making decisions : like going to war, like hurting the working class , like being subservient to the plutocracy, to the military industrial complex.
Once the president of MENSA liberal humanist Isaac Asimov arrived at Stephen J. Gould's cynicism of IQ tests as a mis-measure of general intelligence. CULTURE was so much a greater factor in performance in these school tests. How well do you expect a hungry tired poor kid -living in a blighted neighborhood - with drug addict or alcoholic parents - to compete with MENSA selected elites ?
What amused Isaac Asimov was how stupidly reactionary so many MENSA members were. Like those obnoxious fans of Barry Goldwater back in 1964 ( Goldwater was talking about using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam ) .
Isaac Asimov on MENSA members
[ What’s more, they were constantly jousting with each other, testing their intelligence on each other, and that sort of thing becomes wearing after awhile.
Furthermore, I became uncomfortably aware that Mensans, however high their paper IQ might be, were likely to be as irrational as anyone else. Many of them believed themselves to be part of a ‘superior’ group that ought to rule the world, and despised non-Mensans as inferiors. Naturally, they tended to be right-wing conservatives, and I generally feel terribly out of sympathy with such views.
Worse yet, there were groups among them, I found out eventually, who accepted astrology ... ]
It would not surprise me if President Trump has a MENSA level IQ . But what is his Emotional Intelligence quotient?
In general what is so INTELLIGENT about exploiting , oppressing , mass misery making capitalism ?
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