Our entire economy rests on the work of geniuses, who with intelligences far beyond the norm, designed miraculous devices that seem magical amongst the masses that make use of them. While the average person cannot – or rather, will not – design anything resembling a phone or computer from scratch, for the most part, that is okay because we are a society composed mainly of technicians, laborers, salespeople, and other intermediaries in the production and distribution process. We don’t need or require everyone in our society to be an engineer or designer, and for good reason: thinkers with ideas that can’t be implemented by other people are worthless. For most of the countries across the world, their technological advancements come from the procuring of technology from more developed countries, trading resources in return for refined products that their people would have been countless millennia away from figuring out how to create otherwise. For these dumber peoples, the “best and brightest” of society are unneeded in their own societies, and that is a good thing, because when we look at standard deviations for intelligence quotients and apply them to the IQ averages across the world, it becomes patently clear that most human populations are statistically incapable of producing geniuses at a frequent enough rate to develop their civilizations past a certain point. For the stray geniuses that appear in these backwards countries, as products of statistical anomaly, the truth is that their ability to make any impact at all is severely restrained by the intellectual limits of the people that they’d otherwise try to utilize there.
The redundancy in genius, which we have seen in populations with higher baseline IQs – and thus, higher amounts of geniuses -, simply accelerates technological and economic advancement. For these countries where the people have traditionally higher baseline IQs, the idea that they need to search for their own “best and brightest” abroad is absurd, because they can reliably produce their own geniuses domestically anyways. Typically, populations with higher Neanderthal admixture have had higher IQ averages, and thus, most of the world’s innovation has come from Europe and East Asia. Populations with less Neanderthal admixture, which were raised in certain conditions that encouraged a selection bias for intelligence, like Ashkenazi Jews and the Brahmin caste of India, have made their impacts felt across the world as well in recent times. For these more niche minority groups where their selection bias has been artificially rigged in favor of increasing intelligence, the main determinant in their intelligence levels seems to be how high the baseline IQ of the population that they sprang forth from was to begin with, with a strong emphasis placed on how hard traits like intelligence were selected for in their community.
While the Brahmin caste of India are 6.6 points higher in terms of IQ averages than the lower-caste Shudras in India, they are still well below the average intelligence levels seen throughout the Developed World. For the Brahmin caste, this small bump in IQ averages probably comes from their access to better sources of nutrition – relative to vegans, anyways -, as well as a mild selection for traits over time that enabled them to be better at managing the different facets of their society. For these upper caste Indians, the success that they find abroad is achieved less on merit, with nepotism, inheritances, and other parasitic practices enabling them to outearn the generally smarter white working classes of the countries that their diaspora communities choose to inhabit. On the other hand, while non-Ashkenazi Jews have IQs that remained close to those of their Middle Eastern neighbors, Ashkenazi Jews have IQ averages that are over a standard deviation higher than their western and eastern gentile counterparts, owing to the grueling conditions that they endured prior to their emancipation in Europe. Banned largely from owning land and engaging in the trades for roughly a millennia, Ashkenazi Jews were pushed towards more intellectually demanding white-collar work in a way that no other group can claim to understand, and for this reason, the creation of geniuses amongst this group occurs at a frequency that is cartoonishly high, with anywhere from an eighth to a fifth of all Ashkenazi Jews being clinically considered geniuses. Because of this, the treatment of Ashkenazi Jews in both the Industrial Age and the Information Age has determined to an extent where innovation has vanished and arose, owing to the fact that a large share of our “best and brightest” hail from this small community.
While the “best and brightest” of the Jews have supplied us with virtually every modern convenience we can conceive of, the “best and brightest” of the Indians haven’t done the same, because they simply cannot. We cannot really expect anything in terms of output from any other community on par with what the Ashkenazi Jews have already done, because they are wholly unique in their situation, and unless a population dwarfed Jews enough to overwhelm their statistical advantages in the output of geniuses through sheer numbers alone, this is unlikely to change. Even then, because of the fact that the cultures of Ashkenazi Jews have been molded by the same environmental stresses that made them more intelligent in the first place, it’s worth saying that the utilization and refining of genius within the Ashkenazi culture may alter those numbers needed to go intellectually toe for toe with them further, based on just the fact that those people know better how to work with such elements than other communities do – partly because the frequency of geniuses is so much higher that their experience with such matters would increase, in addition to the fact that their culture became suited to enabling success in intellectual pursuits prior to the Jewish Emancipation. If we were to look at statistical probabilities, when we consider applying the math behind standard deviations to IQ averages, the extra standard deviation in intelligence averages that Ashkenazi Jews hold over the smartest population groups allows for geniuses, relative in statistical frequency to their own community, to be orders of magnitude more common in their community than in those of their gentile counterparts.
With all of this being said, because America contains over half the world’s population of Jews and is a majority-European country with the third largest population of any country in the world, we do not need millions of immigrants for the sake of bolstering our intellectual capital here. Putting it succinctly, we have done fine enough on our own as it is, considering that we have been the home of leaders and pioneers in technology for well over a century. Any shortages of skilled workers in America is due to faults in our own systems, because we already have the most promising of ingredients to work with otherwise, and what we require is a restructuring of those systems, in order to take full advantage of our bountiful human resources once more. Putting it in a metaphor, just because our system refuses to feed its racehorses adequate amounts of hay and train them properly doesn’t mean that it’s sensible to import donkeys and camels that are reputed to run somewhat faster than average for donkeys and camels in their own countries, all because they may eat less hay and require less training than the racehorses we’ve managed to cultivate here. If we want the fastest team of racehorses in the world to continue breaking records, then our success based on that metric depends on caring for and treating them properly, because if we simply replace them with donkeys and camels out of cost or convenience, we’ll just lose to other teams with racehorses anyways. With the recent revelation that the most prominent anti-immigration movement in the United States has flirted with the idea of removing all immigration caps for immigrants from India and beyond, I only bring all of this up for one reason: if we were to look for our “best and brightest” elsewhere, why on earth would anyone start by looking for them in the Special Ed class?
