Re: Extrasensory Situational Awareness
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:32 pm
More and more the cognitive ability issue seems to creep up. People do not need to be educated to do this stuff, but if they are not fairly bright it just does not seem to happen. Ultimately, people must have the ability to maintain a high level of concentration while performing multiple tasks at the same time to pull this off. And that ability highly correlates with being very intelligent.
So if you go back a few hundred years in time where small population sizes, environmental conditions (spending your life inhaling wood smoke from around a camp fire), nutrition (being in starvation mode during formative years and/or borderline malnourished the whole time) and social behavior (eating off of lead plates and cutting a man's balls off to make him a more docile slave) all conspired to reduce base cognitive ability it is easy to see how barring any other factors this would have been the territory of a very small group of people.
In the modern era people with an IQ of 115, and higher, can pretty much do whatever the hell they want. Modern free market societies effectively cater in an unlimited manner to this part of the population. So, if you can avoid drug induced brain damage the demand signal for your talents is pretty much unlimited. And in that scenario most people choose to do other things with their time than stare at rocks or work on their clairvoyance.
So if you go back a few hundred years in time where small population sizes, environmental conditions (spending your life inhaling wood smoke from around a camp fire), nutrition (being in starvation mode during formative years and/or borderline malnourished the whole time) and social behavior (eating off of lead plates and cutting a man's balls off to make him a more docile slave) all conspired to reduce base cognitive ability it is easy to see how barring any other factors this would have been the territory of a very small group of people.
In the modern era people with an IQ of 115, and higher, can pretty much do whatever the hell they want. Modern free market societies effectively cater in an unlimited manner to this part of the population. So, if you can avoid drug induced brain damage the demand signal for your talents is pretty much unlimited. And in that scenario most people choose to do other things with their time than stare at rocks or work on their clairvoyance.