"One function that the less bright can perform is to act as society's collective court jester. Think of all those hideous and cruel TV shows designed to showcase the dim for our delectation." (p. 81)
"Today many of them inevitably become the genetic underclass of IQ-challenged unemployables, forever drifting along the crime-driven, drug-using margins of our society. Lots of them are in prison (along with the mad, the sad and the bad)." (p. 82)
"This is the traditional solution of the well-meaning left, to pretend that the stupid simply aren't there. This is dangerous, and harmful, mostly to the stupid themselves. Education policy...By pretending that all children are equal, and having a bitter insistence on inclusivity... the less bright have been left floundering, failed by their teachers who are forced to teach that mythical average child...and by an examination system that rewards only academic merit at the end." (p. 85)
In his long hate list of tiresome beliefs, notions and lifestyles, Hanlon hates the "wisdom of the East" and the "wisdom of the Ancients." I couldn't agree more once I find no difficulty noticing scholars of the East behave to the extreme of the opposite of their pompous and glorious cultural heritage over the table of luxurious Bordeaux red wines whilst showcasing latest LV handbags.
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