[ExI] far future

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:17 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> My magnet school seniors all scored zero on a simple logic test I gave
> them.
>

I was the only person in my 5th grade class to pass a test like that. Took
me three minutes to do the test. Others struggled with it for the whole
hour. It was easy to pass if you followed the instructions.


> Logic has to be learned and schools don't teach it.
>

Because our society doesn't value logic. Why? Because if it did, the
leaders we have would not be leaders for very long. They prey on the weak
minded using emotional techniques that are well known.


> Whoever said that without the top 1% of the population no progress of any
> kind would be made, hit it on the nose.
>

That would by Ayn Rand. If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged, it's an eye
opener. As an author reading good books should be high on your priority
list, and if you haven't read this one, you aren't as good an author as you
could be.


> That's why I want in my book to narrow the population down to those
> folks.  No fools to suffer (pun intended).  bill w
>

But the problem is that it still wouldn't work. No matter how much smarter
they are than us, there will still be gradations amongst them. Even if they
are all clones, there will still be variation. No matter how small those
variations are, they will be capitalized on by those who are brighter.
Utopia is boring because it is impossible, even with truly logical beings.
And logic won't interest the humans you hope to get to read your book
because most of them are emotional. Write the best logic based book and
nobody will read it.

-Kelly
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