In Defence of Aristocracy by Peregrine Worsthorne (HarperCollins, ?15)
At the end of his satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, Michael Young foresees a society in which members of the high-IQ ruling class breed only with each other: “A high-IQ man who mates with a low-IQ woman is simply wasting his genes.” Eventually genetic determination of intelligence becomes so firmly established that the “New Conservatives” argue for the recreation of a hereditary ruling class as a way to avoid the stresses of competition and social mobility.
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