I keep hearing complaints about people feeling entitled to living the good life but unwilling to work for it but, from where I’m sitting, I see these same people contributing to that sense of entitlement that’s permeating our society. On the one hand, it’s understandable that you want to give your children more than you had, but on the other hand, if you do that, you will probably be contributing to their sense of entitlement. I was just talking to …
Research suggests human intelligence has declined and that people are getting dumber. A new study shows that while technology may be getting smarter, Westerners lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. They point to a number of reasons, one of them being that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence. They say, “This negative association between I.Q. and fertility has been demonstrated time and again in research over the …
Whenever I’ve signed up for anything, I always expected my membership to end at the time of my death. If I sign up to take a course at a local college, I expect that when I die, my professor will assume that I won’t be attending any more of his classes. When I join a book club, and the members see my obituary, they won’t be expecting me to read the next month’s book selection. I even expect Amazon, Costco, …
I just read a news article saying that colleges were paying students to take a year off after high school to travel or volunteer. This gap year program will pay for housing, airfare, and visas, which can add up to $30,000 or more. The rationale behind this asinine idea is that students are so burned out by the time they graduate that they need this gap year to reenergize and figure out what they want to do with themselves after …
Research suggests human intelligence has declined and that people are getting dumber. A new study shows that while technology may be getting smarter, Westerners lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. They point to a number of reasons, one of them being that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence. They say, “This negative association between I.Q. and fertility has been demonstrated time and again in research over the …