Their IQs are average or even above average, but their middle and upper-middle class prejudices, their desire to belong to managerial social circles, their desperation for approval from the elite, and the years of education indoctrination they've been through at the Approved Institutions; all of these collectively outweigh and undermine any capacity they may once have had for critical thought.
It is better to be ruled over by robber barons than by omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep; his cupidity may at some point be satiated. But those who oppress us for our own good will oppress us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Not retards: midwits.
Their IQs are average or even above average, but their middle and upper-middle class prejudices, their desire to belong to managerial social circles, their desperation for approval from the elite, and the years of
educationindoctrination they've been through at the Approved Institutions; all of these collectively outweigh and undermine any capacity they may once have had for critical thought.The midwits are the true believers. They think in terms of slogans and conclusions.
Smart enough to intuit networks, connections, and correlations - not smart enough for first principle thinking.
Thus they become the clergy class, otherwise know as the PMC.
-C.S. Lewis