Allan Milne Lees
1 min readOct 31, 2019

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The Great Unmentionable is, of course, the fact that in general less informed and less intelligent people voted for Brexit while more informed and more intelligent people voted for Remain. The culture divide is therefore similar to that in the USA where ignorant unintelligent people vote Republican and intelligent informed people either abstain or vote Democrat. As our world is increasingly complex we’re likely to see this divide (between people who can’t understand global challenges versus people who at least make an attempt) grow and grow. But as it’s not at all Politically Correct to suggest that some people are more intelligent than others and that this fact might actually matter, everyone’s going to ignore the metaphorical elephant in the room until said pachyderm wrecks the entire building.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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