I miss Jamesn, but he could come out with some pretty simple-minded elitist bullshit. Montrachet isn't better than Boones. Like intelligence, there's no objective criteria to determine these things. Just a set of agreed upon standards. In fact, we can't define intelligence. We recognize it only by the benchmarks. We assume a set of common goals, and measure intelligence by our ability to achieve those goals. But do education, wealth, power, and social status = "intelligence"? I suppose by some definition. But ignoring spirituality, in strictly Darwinian terms, the only real measure of "success" is one's reproductive rate [ just ask EO Wilson ]. Intelligence, wealth, power, social status, etc only have value to the extent that they increase one's likelihood of attracting a mate and fostering offspring. In that regard, a goodlooking male pornstar who manages to father a fair number of illegitimate children would actually be considered far more successful than someone like Barak Obama who only fathers two. Of course, you could argue that Obama's children would someday be making decisions for the pornstars children. But since the pornstars would far outnumber the Obamas, the bulk of political power would rest, as it always does, with the masses. Which is why our "leaders" are forever compelled to kowtow to the whims of the middleclass. Look at the bell curve. The prize goes to the C students.