{"id":300,"date":"2018-08-25T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coevolutionist.com\/muse\/?p=300"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:41:29","slug":"the-dangers-of-ignoring-cognitive-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coevolutionist.com\/muse\/the-dangers-of-ignoring-cognitive-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a repost<\/a> of an article originally appearing in Quillette.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 28 April 1996, Martin Bryant was awoken by his alarm at 6am. He said goodbye to his girlfriend as she left the house, ate some breakfast, and set the burglar alarm before leaving his Hobart residence, as usual. He stopped briefly to purchase a coffee in the small town of Forcett, where he asked the cashier to \u201cboil the kettle less time.\u201d He then drove to the nearby town of Port Arthur, originally a colonial-era convict settlement populated only by a few hundred people. It was here that Bryant would go on to use the two rifles and a shotgun stashed inside a sports bag on the passenger seat of his car to perpetrate the worst massacre in modern Australian history. By the time it was over, 35 people were dead and a further 23 were left wounded.<\/p>\n