Until recently, absolutely. Ranks are being filled with DEI hires but historically it's the master degrees who have been the PMC, and these people absolutely have IQs in that range.
Smart enough to intuit that complex forces are at work, but not smart enough to understand what, or to accept uncertainty. Too intelligent to not be drawn towards abstract explanations, not intelligent enough to see through the traps, inconsistencies, and lies of the ideology.
This is why we have a clergy class in the first place. Their middling IQs is what defines them. Their midwittery is the very thing that makes them so susceptible to ideological capture.
No. Really not even close.
Other than that, you're mostly right.
Until recently, absolutely. Ranks are being filled with DEI hires but historically it's the master degrees who have been the PMC, and these people absolutely have IQs in that range.
Smart enough to intuit that complex forces are at work, but not smart enough to understand what, or to accept uncertainty. Too intelligent to not be drawn towards abstract explanations, not intelligent enough to see through the traps, inconsistencies, and lies of the ideology.
This is why we have a clergy class in the first place. Their middling IQs is what defines them. Their midwittery is the very thing that makes them so susceptible to ideological capture.
Smart enough to get yourself in trouble, but not smart enough to get yourself out of it. Makes sense.