Ten More Things Inspired by Larry Edler. The Ten Things You Can't Say in America . White condescension is as bad as black racism. I applaud Larry Elder's efforts to open a crack of honesty in the wall of lies and self-deceptions that forms our public discourse. Now I am going to hammer my own wedge into the crack, in the hope of widening it just a little.
American society is increasingly a conspiracy of the smart against the dumb.
But hey, low-IQ types don't vote much. Ninety-nine per cent of the stuff exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art is esthetically worthless and will be utterly forgotten 100 years from now. Some similar proportion of the items published in poetry magazines are likewise without any redeeming value and will likewise be forgotten. The human race can no longer paint great pictures, write great poems, or compose great music. We have forgotten how to do these things.