{"id":919,"date":"2003-06-10T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity\/"},"modified":"2003-06-10T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T19:23:18","slug":"intelligence-vs-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence vs Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew found an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/002\/730avutr.asp\">Too Smart To Be Dumb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><i>Read\u00ading [the rel\u00ade\u00advance of intel\u00adli\u00adgence] in a book review the oth\u00ader day remind\u00aded me (for rea\u00adsons you\u2019ll soon under\u00adstand) of a car acci\u00addent my wife and daugh\u00adter were lucky to walk away from three years ago. A 16-year-old dri\u00adving a new Lin\u00adcoln coupe hit them at 70 mph\u2013twice the speed limit\u2013after careen\u00ading off a hill\u00adside. Lat\u00ader that night the kid\u2019s moth\u00ader told me how shocked she was by the wit\u00adness reports of his reck\u00adless dri\u00adving. \u201cBut he got 1550 on his SAT,\u201d she cried. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you do for a liv\u00ading?\u201d I asked. <\/p>\n<p>It was no sur\u00adprise to hear that she\u2019s a col\u00adlege pro\u00adfes\u00adsor. <\/p>\n<p>Like mil\u00adlions of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal elites and wannabes, this woman pre\u00adsumes an inher\u00adent con\u00adnec\u00adtion between intel\u00adli\u00adgence and good\u00adness, and between intel\u00adli\u00adgence and wis\u00addom, as though there exists some objec\u00adtive domain of eth\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adi\u00adty to which Men\u00adsa mem\u00adbers are auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly admit\u00adted.<\/p>\n<p>The arti\u00adcle is pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly a polit\u00adi\u00adcal one, but it\u2019s got a recur\u00adring theme that I found quite inter\u00adest\u00ading: smart does\u00adn\u2019t imply moral. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/002\/730avutr.asp\">Read the arti\u00adcle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew found an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle called Too Smart To Be Dumb. Here\u2019s an excerpt: Read\u00ading [the rel\u00ade\u00advance of intel\u00adli\u00adgence] in a book review the oth\u00ader day remind\u00aded me (for rea\u00adsons you\u2019ll soon under\u00adstand) of a car acci\u00addent my wife and daugh\u00adter were lucky to walk away from three years ago. A 16-year-old dri\u00adving a new \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/10\/intelligence-vs-integrity\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cIntel\u00adli\u00adgence vs Integri\u00adty\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}