Way to go France!

**Al Khalifah** · 06-01-2005, 17:15

Yeah but corruption makes the world go round. Without corruption where would the world be?

**Papewaio** · 06-01-2005, 23:53

^ utopia

**el_slapper** · 06-02-2005, 07:14

Ahem... Here political elites all have made the toughest schools, which means their IQ is VERY high(they couldn't enter Polytechnique or the ENA without a very high IQ). Still they s**k. Intelligence is rather useless I fear, creativity is what we need - and I know no way of measuring it.

**Stefan the Berserker** · 06-02-2005, 15:51

Originally Posted by el_slapper

Ahem... Here political elites all have made the toughest schools, which means their IQ is VERY high(they couldn't enter Polytechnique or the ENA without a very high IQ). Still they s**k. Intelligence is rather useless I fear, creativity is what we need - and I know no way of measuring it.

Politicans don't need to be very intelligent to get in Offices, because they only need to get the majority of votes from their party Members to be promoted Candidate for this Office. If they are once promoted, the Party does most of the work while they need to repeat the Slogans and appear Intelligent to the people. Since you elect the Parties while also having no real knowledge of the Person, this does work.

As a Member of a Party I exactly know how this goes and how they sometimes promote Idiots for just beeing good Fellas. "Friendship" plays also a very important role in this part, since the Cliques in a Party usually support each other.

Secondly, Intelligence is diffrent to define. Beeing on a tough school or having good exams doesn't make you intelligent. The weakest Point in the schoolsystem for example is, that the Students which run "Papagei"-Method get the good exams.

Papagei-Method:

Intensively practice the Stuff shortly before Tests, so you can repeat it without understanding what you actually said (like this pretty Bird). Then write the Test and afterwards, forget the Stuff as it won't be of use again.

Diligence can, in this case, replace Intelligence.

**el_slapper** · 06-03-2005, 14:21

Of course intelligence is NOT required to get elected. Still, french parties are dominated by very bright people. Too much impressed by their own intelligence, I fear...