@Bi-Polar Bear,
Quote:like bush you mean.....
Worse, if that's possible...
The thought experiment here goes like this more or less:
Put yourself in the position of Adolf Hitler; you've just won WW-II, England caved from the strangulation by the U-boats and Russia threw in the towel shortly afterward, and the next agenda item on the list is to get together with all the nazi race theorists and devise the ultimate eugenics program for the world.
And while that is just getting started, somebody comes in and describes the Kennedy family to you. I mean, that pretty much has to blow the whole theory apart and send all those guys back to the drawing boards.
I mean, if memory serves, John and Jacqueline Kennedy were more than a little bit bright; how do their two kids, with no obvious genetic defects and with every advantage of family, money, name, and prestige, end up such total losers?
I don't really have a theory for this one which I'd want to try to convince anybody of, best I can do is this: ASSUMING I were to start with Farmerman's view towards human history and recent prehistory, then I would figure that you don't need to go terribly far back, three or four thousand years tops more or less, and most humans were living hand to mouth on a daily basis. You go out every day looking to find something or kill something to feed yourself and your family with and those who don't get good and stay good at it don't live to tell the tale.
This is what I hear from people I know who work with the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of the rich on a daily basis, i.e. that people only have to go one or two generations without having to concern themselves with where their next meal is coming from, and they start to resemble idiots.
