Art???

[Phil Pascoe]

Funny, I've just read somewhere that it is estimated that a child today has an IQ ten points below its great grandparents. A theory being that we no longer have to think for ourselves all the time because of computers, internet etc.

 

[Jacob]

I think Art is the idea or concept. Most modern art could be made by anyone with the appropriate skills, but not everyone could create the idea. I could build the chair in the above photo but I certainly couldn't have thought of the design.

Well yes. Design (or "art") is king - craftsmanship is just a detail.

 

[Jacob]

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If IQ 100 could actually be defined, it would be found to be getting progressively lower ... as people of below average intelligence tend to have more children than people at the other end of the scale.

In which case intelligence has little value in evolutionary terms and will breed itself out.
Actually I think this is true - our elaborately constructed "intelligent" "technical" world is highly vulnerable and is lining itself up for extinction

 

[monkeybiter]

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If IQ 100 could actually be defined, it would be found to be getting progressively lower ... as people of below average intelligence tend to have more children than people at the other end of the scale.

In which case intelligence has little value in evolutionary terms and will breed itself out.
Actually I think this is true - our elaborately constructed "intelligent" "technical" world is highly vulnerable and is lining itself up for extinction

Or maybe the species could diverge...Morlocks [No cash, little sense] and Eloi [All the wealth, most of the brains]?

 

[Jonzjob]

The value of art??

Not long ago a mate of a mate inherited a Monet and a Stradivarius, but a few days later he found out that they had very little value at all.

Apparently Antonio Stradivari was a lousy painter and Claude Monet didn't know one end of a wood working tool from the other. Shame really :?

 

[devonwoody]

My grandmother was a wise old lady, she left school at 12 years of age.

She described some people as "all brains but no common sense"

 

[Jacob]

My grandmother was a wise old lady, she left school at 12 years of age.

She described some people as "all brains but no common sense"

I was doing some windows in a posh old house and there was other trades on the site. The client was very bookish and "intelligent" but he cam bumbling in asking questions about plumbing, about which he knew FA. When he'd gone the plumber said "isn't it odd how clever people are stupid".
But - maybe they get clever because they aren't ashamed to ask stupid questions?