Couldn't disagree more. Examples of why, in my opinion, the aggregate assessment of human intelligence is highly inflated:
1. Bush. Elected. Twice. (Florida vote count issue notwithstanding). 2. Americans continuing to buy fuel hogging cars even after the warning supplied by the mid-70's oil crises, which gave clear indication of the impending global oil supply/demand tip-over point which we are now seeing. The ensuing 30 years between then and now could have intelligently been spent planning to prevent today's current oil market "crises". 3. General Motors, Ford: Instead of planning for the inevitable evolution of the petroleum-based market pricing realities, they continued along their stupid short-sighted plan of producing the fuel hogs that their stupid customers craved, instead of planning ahead for today's market, in which GM lost more than $15 billion this year. Ford was right behind, losing $9 billion. There is now serious talk of GM facing bankruptcy as a direct result of their less-than-intelligent management leadership. 4. The Democratic party. 5. The Republican party. 6. Congress. 7. White supremacists. 8. Jerry Fallwell. 9. Jerry Fallwell's followers. 10. Fundamentalists (Christian, Muslim, Mormon: doesn't matter) I could go on, but it would be stupid to do so... -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ann Racuya-Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > II would say that the intelligence of most > people is grossly underrated.
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