(worth repeating) Star Trek is what you get if you suppress the breeding of the

(worth repeating)

Star Trek is what you get if you suppress the breeding of the underclasses for four hundred years, and raise the median IQ to our equivalent of 122 (one and a half standard deviations).

Brazil is what you get if you don’t.

Pakistan is what you get if you lose your aristocracy, and encourage inbreeding.