Brad, There are web sites that talk about Bush's IQ and grades. He seems clever to me and he also is a member by birth of the political club. I am a great believer in family capital i..e that the family that has a long history in a business gives their offspring an inate advantage simply by growing up there. I've seen it happen constantly with the people that I teach. Often people with the higher IQs and better intellectual educations have the ability to think through and act on something but it takes a long time, many years, to become inate. I witnessed this again just last week when we auditioned many cum laudes and graduates from the finest schools. Those who didn't have it in their background but were extremely smart were able to make it in good condition through the initial audition but in the flexibility of the "call back", their intellectual knowledge, in spite of their potential, was simply too shallow to deal with performance. On the other hand we had a young artist who had grown up in the business and walked away to go into academics and graduated in the highest levels from the best rated school in America (but not in music) and she was rusty. Her culture got her through the first audition magnificently, but her skill was out of shape and she couldn't compete inspite of her genius level academics.
I believe the issue is performance. Performance is different from academia or intelligence. It is a complex mix of genetics, family intellectual property, training and opportunity for practice. In George Bush's case, he could have been a great President but he was chemically damaged by his psychological method of declaring his independance from his father. Alcohol, drugs, debauchery etc. Clinton is not from such a deep background but he was taken under the wings of the best politicians almost from a teenager and his natural IQ is high. He had a lot of practice both at success and failure and so his sense of the process is intellectually deep while Bush's is culturally so. Illicit sex may damage your moral intelligence and growing up in the almost amoral atmosphere of Washington may make you more sociopathic plus being grounded academically in the sociopathic climate of the law is bound to create an interesting character. Put that together with being a Southern Baptist from birth, not Anglican like GWB, and marrying a very interesting, dynamic and driven young feminist and you have a recipe that is not hard to understand for the Clinton presidency. GWB on the other hand seems simply lazy, unpracticed, patrician and damaged. But that is all individual. The more interesting question I find is the "ideals" of the Republicans and the Democrats. Both seem severely re-active rather than pro-active. If I consider the type of future they imagine by the people they align themselves with, both are frightening. But the Democrats less so because they believe in equality and efficiency. The childlike faith in mechanisms that the Republicans have or profess is either idiocy or duplicity (note the Wall Street Journal's recent conversion to re-regulation for the power companies in face of the failure of the "invisible economic hand"). The "invisible hand" is the most ridiculous notion that I've seen to date. We have many such myths in voice teaching and the only thing that saves them is the tremendous talent pool where almost any failure can be forgotten because it is so replaceable. What works is always a combination of human endeavors and not silly notions of automatic nature. Intelligence, birthright, practice, hard work, logical thought and a genuinely impirical process in confronting the wonderful world that we have been given to explore during our time here on earth. Nature isn't automatic but dynamic and Laisse Faire whether in economics, education or the environment is an excuse for intellectual laziness and irresponsibility. You have to plan, think about the future of your grandchildren and the sustainability of the present. I see little of such thought or action in the present in any quarter. That's my experience and opinion. Ray Evans Harrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] RE: They were pretty dim > I have worked as a computer person for over 30 yeras. > > I've been around a lot of persons with real high IQs, and also > a lot of them with lots of schooling, and I have learned that > neither intelligence nor schooling comes close to > guaranteeing wisdom or even the desire to be wise (or even > some reasonably substantive notion of what > wisdom would be -- it's what gurus have...). > > Data is not information. > Information is not knowledge. > Knowledge is not wisdom. > > Obviously, mental subnormality and organic > brain damage can cause problems like dysphasia (etc.). > > But we live in Lake Woebegone; we rarely encounter > anyone who does not have an above average IQ in our > social circles. > > Anyway, who knows what Schqartzkopf's I.Q. is? Or > Bush's, for that matter? Just because his lips > are where, as he said, words go to die, doesn't > mean he doesn't have an IQ. > > \brad mccormick > > > > Keith Hudson wrote: > > > Lawry, > > > > At 09:03 31/08/03 -0400, you wrote: > > > >> Keith, Schwartzkopf is alive and well and based in a village in SW > >> Colorado. > >> He is viewed locally as a minor celebrity and general affable good > >> guy, sits > >> on the board of a couple of local charities, and gives talks to school > >> kids > >> on leadership, and is the parade marshal on the 4th of July. He is > >> probably > >> on several corporate boards and available for a fee for talks nationally. > > > > > > Thanks -- this fits what I imagined. Likes to be a big fish in a little > > pond by the looks of it. Mind you, he might be ever so ever so clever > > and has turned down all sorts of job and consultancy opportunities with > > the armaments firms . . . . but somehow . . . . > > > > > >> At a time when America needs all the generosity of spirit we can find, I > >> thank you for your assessment of his numeric IQ. > > > > > > That's all right. I was just doing my little bit to cheer you up. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Keith > > > > > >> Cheers, > >> Lawry > >> > > >> > However, although the most senior British Army officers are of 130+ > >> IQ I > >> > would judge, I was not impressed by "Stormin' Norman" at the time of > >> the > >> > Gulf War I. He was supposed to be a genius or something. On the > >> basis of > >> > his briefings to journalists I rated him at about 120 IQ, no > >> > more. The fact > >> > that he hasn't subsequently appeared in the ranks of CEOs in > >> > business means > >> > that he probably wasn't as bright as that. Or perhaps he's a > >> Professor in > >> > some third or fourth league university? He's probably raising > >> chickens. > >> > I'd be fascinated to know what he's doing now. Strikes me that > >> > Powell isn't > >> > as bright as he ought to be as a Secretary of State. Not a patch on the > >> > previous lady. But at least he has a decent vocabulary and can get his > >> > words out in the right order and I think he has some decency in him. I > >> > would guess that Marshall was probably your last really bright > >> > army officer. > >> > Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England, > >> > <www.evolutionary-economics.org> > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Futurework mailing list > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Futurework mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- > > > > > > Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com > > 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England > > Tel: +44 1225 311636; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... 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