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About 100 years ago, Winthrop Kellogg did and experiment documented in his book called ["The Ape and the Child"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Kellogg#The_Ape_and_the_Child) that effectively showed that intelligence and learning follows the same pattern we see in all training and even the concept often called "spiritual empathy" in The Church. That is, the lower intellect has a ceiling, an incapability to rise to the level of the higher intellect, but the higher intellect has no floor - it can and will fall to the level of the lower intellect.

Just like when you train, you benefit more if you train with someone better than you. Conversely, if the better person constantly trains with a slouch, the better person will regress to that level. A spiritually-devout person that hitches up with a spiritually-indifferent person, it's more likely the devout person will be become more indifferent than the indifferent person become more spiritual. "You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with" and all that.

All that to say (if the point's not clear)... I worry that return to monke is inescapable. The world is becoming flatter and smaller, and lower-intellect humans *far* outnumber the higher intellect ones, so... I guess I can see where the Eugenicists were coming from. It seems if we don't cull at least the weakest of the herd, the herd will suffer for it.