scientists and engineers

 America should become a nation of scientists and engineers.

singapore, again

 Still getting all these hits from Singapore, but no comments. All right then, let me ask you this: Should the US bring back corporal punishment? Click on the post, and a comment box will come up. 

comments?

 I've been getting a lot of hits on these blogs lately, from all over the world, but no responses or followers. Any comments? I'd like to get a conversation started.

'best earth'

  ' . . . The one thing to keep in mind, through it all.'

This modest (but hopefully inspiring) little tract is available on Amazon as both ebook & paperback. Contains breathtaking nighttime NASA images of whole regions of the planet.

'Step back and look down.'

https://www.amazon.com/best-earth-planetarian-Jonathan-Greenblume-ebook/dp/B08PZHRZ8N/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=%22best+earth%22&qid=1614097422&s=digital-text&sr=1-3

a thought experiment

 So let’s run a little thought experiment using our fabulous ‘laboratory of the states.’ Let’s pick a couple small states—say New Hampshire and Vermont, cute little side-by-side New England states. Let’s say New Hampshire decided to try to become a high-IQ state. First off, they’d give everybody IQ tests. Then they would encourage (i.e., financially incentivize) high-IQ people to reproduce and discourage (financially disincentivize) low-IQ people from reproducing—not providing further welfare benefits for out-of-wedlock children, providing free hysterectomies, abortions, vasectomies, etc. Similarly, they would encourage high-IQ in-migration and low-IQ out-migration.

 

Then, just for the sake of argument, let’s say that left-wing, Vermont went in the opposite direction. They would also give everybody IQ tests but would use them to encourage low-IQ reproduction and discourage high-IQ reproduction. Similarly, they would encourage low-IQ in-migration and high-IQ out-migration. (No rational government would ever do this, of course, for obvious reasons.)

 

What would these two states look like after a couple generations? New Hampshire would be a civilized, prosperous first-world state, well-versed in the science and technology of the modern world, with great public schools and a low-to-nonexistent crime rate. Vermont, meantime,  would have become an impoverished, corrupt, crime-ridden third-world hellhole.

 

Do you doubt it?

affirmative action

 Affirmative action is a zero-sum game that selects less qualified people over more qualified people on the basis of irrelevant characteristics. It's counterproductive and immoral and should be abolished.

The Main Difference between 1st-World Countries and 3rd-World Countries

 What we call the Modern World is a society heavily based in science and technology. The main difference between 1st-world countries and 3rd-world countries is that the former have a lot of people with a broad and deep understanding of these things whereas the latter have very few such people. Unless 3rd-world countries can educate-- or import-- a significant number of people in science and technology, they will never be part of the Modern World. Q.E.D.