Ben Compton wrote something that made me think hard. He reminded us that IQ's
are prohibited from government hiring consideration; that it may be possible
for individuals to increase their quotients; that successful companies may be
hiring larger numbers of people with higher quotients than with lower ones.
What will happen--or continue to occur--in our current global situation where
a near-term desire for greater entrepreneurial talent (as reflected, perhaps,
in higher IQ's) and output comes head to head with calls for broad human
rights with equality of access and opportunity?
That's a long-winded question. Put another way, will we move closer and
closer to an Orwellian world where those with lesser IQ's are put down,
figuratively or literally? This tremendously ugly thought swirls like a
gray-black cloud on the periphery of consciousness: haves versus have-nots;
monetary wealth against oppression and poverty. And to a degree much easier
to contemplate, high quotients against low ones.
This conundrum manifests itself daily in our school systems, school board
meetings, local and national politics, religions. One school has it that a
quotient of another sort is the one which holds humanity's key. Is this
thought a will-'o-the-wisp, or are those who commune with this or that Source
actually onto something?
I thank Ben, whose writing I admire, for allowing me to express these
reflections in writing.
Best regards,
-- Barry Mallis bmallis@markem.comLearning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>