it's because, fundamentally, all the men with drive went to war and were slaughtered. what you're left with are the lower end of the bell curve, the proles, and the higher end of the bell curve, who escaped to other countries to do science and create the cia and escape persecution in argentina. the phrase "all the good men died in the war" will only prove itself more as each subsequent generation demonstrates arrested development and ineptitude.
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