I am 70 and have been a member since 1979. I have been asking why people who learn to read well are considered to have been born intelligent since I was nine --and getting nowhere.
That many who read well are unemployable and end up in psychiatric hospitals was well known.
By the age of nine, I thought I would enjoy teaching others to read, but knew the birdbrains who run the world would not allow it. Since the age of 14, I have struggled to understand why educators spend their days talking incessantly, and seemingly have no interest in how well anyone reads.Since the age of 16, I have wondered why our culture reeks with inferences that the literate, the creative and the artistic are weak in heterosexuality.Since the age of 18, I have wondered why the business world seeks out the mouthy, dull and somewhat stupid chatterbox rather than those who are able to read well. Since the age of 38, I have wondered how many times the populations of Canada and the U.S. will be completely replaced with non-English speaking immigrants before the absurdity of dishonest literacy standards is discovered.
The successful tend to be intellectual mediorities who end up owning everything and chatter a lot with a five-watt vocabulary because they are widely understood. They squat squarely at the center of the bell curve and tend to have an IQ of 100.
According to Wikipedia population statistics, 16,606,348 Canadians and 151,812,340 Americans are more literate than their politicians. Therefore 664,253 Canadians and 6,072,492 Americans are potential members of Mensa. Our "boreds" could be managing budgets of $39,855,180Cdn and $354,349,520US, respectively.
Democracy does not have to mean a semi-literate population, dishonest schools, birthrates below replacement levels, perpetual replacement of the population with immigrants, social sciences in a state of chaos or howling half-wits in the media.
It is a mistake to expect anything like logic or reason on this planet never mind Mensa. Showing your membership card could get you fired or demoted.
Chances are that another century of political interference with education will take our culture up to a mental age of 11.1 years instead of the present average of 10.8 and honest schools will still be out of the question.
Somebody out there needs to do a far better job of needling these people than I have. Yet many have and that worries me.
I was never good at listening to educators, let alone memorizing what they said. I used to stare at a point on the wall just above their heads and daydream the school days away. Of course, I had to repeat grade 10. Years later, when the bank's psychologist did his survey, he said, "You scored up here." I said, "You must be looking at the last guy's file."
Seems to me that the course is obvious. Send the Government of Canada a bill for $39,855,180 and assure them that we will mail out the membership cards just as soon as they require school boards to send us the necessary names and addresses.

This item by George Noviss was included MC2, May 2010, Mensa Canada Communications

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