[mdlug] OT: CEO? Whatever: 17-year-old runs $1M business designingMySpace pages for teens

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Rich Clark <rrclark at rrclark.net>

> If you've not seen it yet, find a copy of Idiocracy. Produced by Mike 
> Judge. You'll see why I fear the future. It pretty much sums 
> things up nicely.

 It's a reworking of Kornbluth's "Marching Morons". It's funny, certainly,
(my wife and I enjoyed it) but it's not accurate. The genetics of the premise
is just wrong. I commented on some of the reasons why eugenics is wrong here
(see the section titled "Genetic Moral Engineering"):

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/07/12/universal-morality-and-the-morality-of-the-universe/

 The other reason it's wrong is that studies have *not* shown any link
between intelligence and number of children. Studies *have* shown a strong
link between *education* and number of children, though...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                                 (313) 227-2317

 "Do Americans want to be a country that kidnaps people without charges,
 tortures them, lies to its allies about it, and then, when it turns out
  they were completely innocent, blocks the Government officials who are
 responsible from being held accountable? That's the country we've become
  under this administration and its blindly loyal servants in Congress."
                            - Glen Greenwald
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/
 AR2006091800883.html
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