Temple of Zagan

Chris Langan, a man who supposedly have an IQ of 200, answers a question asked of him on the matter of modern education:

What would be your advice for highly intelligent youth who have lost academic motivation as a result of being unchallenged?

Chris Langan

Answered Dec 26, 2017

First, let me say that I sympathize with what would appear to be the motives behind this kind of question, which no professional educator is in a position to answer honestly. But that being understood, you should probably resign yourself to the following facts:

(1) The main purpose of modern education is not to prepare you for life as a scholar. In fact, it is not for worthwhile education of any kind. It is for indoctrination, socialization, and classifying you as either (a) a good little drone who can be put to work and squeezed interminably for revenue by your “betters” in the power structure, or (b) someone who should be marginalized and economically disenfranchised en route to possible incarceration by the penal system, at which point your “betters” will have their way with you anyway. All pretensions to the contrary exist strictly in furtherance of this goal. You may find a few instructors who delude themselves about this and actually try to help their students learn, but this is no longer the norm.

(2) Intelligence has been completely replaced by academic credentials as an employment criterion. You do not inhabit a meritocracy; the world you inhabit is run by only moderately intelligent, mostly filthy-rich sociopaths who place no value on truth or knowledge for the betterment of mankind or for their own sake. Thus, your prospects of social and economic advancement are not enhanced by extraordinary intelligence. They have far more to do with your credentials, your connections, and sadly enough, your complexion (the more non-White you are, the better you can avail yourself of affirmative action, take employment from better-qualified people, and avoid termination due to any bad attitude you may exhibit in negative appreciation for the affirmative action you received). Remember, capitalizing on one’s intelligence requires material resources, and if those resources are denied you, your intelligence will not help you.

(3) If you flounder, do not expect your teachers to help you unless you have the proper complexion for it. If you are nonwhite and thus fashionably complexioned, educators can get bureaucratic brownie points by treating your mind as “a terrible thing to waste”; bending over backwards to help you makes them look good to their superiors in the bureaucracy. But if you are White, then you are highly likely to be deemed (a) automatically guilty of “White privilege”, (b) an undeserving beneficiary of US colonialism who needs to be punished for the unspeakable effrontery of your existence to the rest of mankind, and (c) justly destined for demographic genocide as “more deserving” immigrants from overpopulated Third World cesspools, transported here using what little money you may have succeeded in accumulating, rightfully displace you from your ancestral homeland and the human gene pool.

(4) If you are rejected by the “education” system for any reason, you become ineligible for participation in the modern economy. Without connections, you probably won’t be able to find work as anything more than a janitor (if that), and your life will be rendered economically worthless. It is the possible avoidance of this plight for which you are paying when you buy a college “education”. It used to be that a college education was a virtual guarantee of decent employment; this is no longer true, at least for White people. It is only the fear of complete, permanent economic exclusion that induces modern students to pay up to 20 (twenty) times for academic credentials what they cost in the 1970’s (that extra money is being stuffed in the pockets of an ever-expanding pool of corporate-administrative yuppies, by the way – think of an insatiable army of Larry Summers clones). As soon as you are rejected by the education system, you effectively become ineligible for gainful employment; you probably won’t be able to find a decent job of any kind, and your life will be rendered economically worthless as a result. I’m sure you can imagine the attending hardships.

(6) In a totally materialistic society, intelligence is of value only when it is turned to exclusively material pursuits … that is, to the acquisition of money and what it buys. Your worth as an individual is measured strictly by the amount of money your socio-economic betters think they can make from you, or in rare cases, the amount of public credit they think they can get for helping you. Yes, you may be allowed to console yourself with feel-good platitudes like “money isn’t everything” and “the best things in life are free;” talk, as they say, is cheap. But lets face it, you won’t have much time for idealistic soliloquies as you scramble, against all the odds, to survive.

Incidentally, I haven’t just rendered an opinion here out of prejudice; I’ve been invited to answer this question for a reason -i.e., because of who and what I am – and am merely explaining what I’ve learned from my own life experiences. That is, encouraged by the fact that I’ve never met a college professor I couldn’t crush intellectually like an aluminum beer can, I went the hard way and did what I felt called to do in spite of everything you’ve just read. Given the will to do the same, you can succeed on your own terms even after being thrown away by the venal and corrupt indoctrination apparatus that passes for an education system in this country. You’ll probably remain poor, unfortunately, but forewarned is forearmed.

Doubt any or all of this if you like, but don’t say that no one tried to set you straight. It’s simply not what many of us think it is out there, and the sooner you realize it, the better off you’ll probably be.

The modern education system, from my own personal experience, was a lot like the emperor’s new clothes or a similar sort of shit test.  You know that most of what you were learning were useless trivia you’ll never use in your adult life, but you can’t rebel against it and learning how to obey & keep your head down was an unspoken rule of the system.  Seeing a very high IQ man having the same experience with the system and not having found a way to best it, is the one thing I find to be depressing about the above essay.

I have, however, known people who have not gone on to college and still managed to be very financially successful – some of the things required for financial success discussed in the above essay, such connections, can still be built even without attending a college. Nonetheless, perhaps the best way to win is just to not play at all as Terence McKenna once said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original screen shot of the Langan essay, found on 4chan: