March 02, 2006
Red/Blue Demographics: Is intelligence helpful?
Dan sent me this piece discussing the fertility problems of modern first worlders. In particular e.g. red states have fertility rates 12% higher than blues.
I described this fact to a left/lib friend last night, and the response was: But they are stupider.
Ignoring the utter vacuity of that statement, the obvious response (thought of later) is: Perhaps the reason why convervativism is "old" and leftism is "new" even though left ideas are "obvious" to leftists is because everytime a population comes up with left ideas, it proceeds to die off. Maybe convervative ideology is the shark/roach of ideas. Maybe leftism is like algae-blooms.
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I thought you said earlier that conservative/liberal distinctions are relative particular to the 'ecology' of the day when I mentioned that favoring racial segregation was considered a conservative position a generation ago.
If the big social conservative/liberal question of today is whether or not gay people can get married(!), hasn't everything become progressively more "liberal" and what is considered conservative changed?
Theory 1: liberalism is equivalent to the 'conceptual sketch' a society comes up with, conservatism resembles the technical schematics. Unless under extreme duress, societies don't tend to put the conceptual artists in charge, although they usually tend to influence the social imagination.
Theory 2: 'smart' red staters that figure out how to make money move to wealthier blue states, get richer, marry later and have less kids (I'd be curious to see the relationship between income and # of children)
Actually I believe neither of those theories and think that red/blue constructs are made up by the media, but it's fun to point out relativistic circles sociologists so feverishly run in.
Posted by: ooghe at March 3, 2006 12:48 PM
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