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 | | Notable among the cliches wherein the word *smart* occurs is "smart as a whip," which suggests that the person or child so characterized either presently or in the future occupies, or will, a hierarchically superior position wherefrom the infliction of pain upon those Inferior to him/her may in the Nature Of Things occur. |
 | | (b) Smartness is distributed Normally, like other measured continuous varia- bles in human populations; i.e., the Bell-Shaped Curve; and we are pretty damned certain that height is genetically determined; consequently, so is Smartness. |
 | | All organisms construing themselves Smart will, in the crunch, or even without any crunch, crave, desire, or intend that their *own* children shall enjoy "all the advantages." Because the hereditary transmission of social rank (or status, a five- letter Latin word for the four-letter English word, rank) *is what children are for*. |
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