The Best and the Brightest

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness"

-Allen Ginsberg

 

 

Some of the most intelligent and most talented people I have met have been homeless and/or substance abusers. If I was a deluded conspiracy theorist, I'd think that there was some sort of concerted effort to level the playing field by destroying the best and the brightest. By reviewing the last sixty years of our nation's history, I'd probably be able to make a pretty good case for it. An unbiased study that traced the eventual destinations of the smartest grade school students of the past sixty years would reveal some interesting data, I'm sure.

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