emergence of the custodial state

[freepcrusher]

any of you guys read the Bell Curve? It was published nearly 20 years ago by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. In one of the last chapters, it discusses something called the custodial state where there is an increasingly high percentage of the population that either cannot or will not (or both) fend for themselves and them and their children are permanent wards of states. As a result the areas they live in are increasingly populated by people like them to the point where they become "high tech reservations". It also means an increasing necessity for public safety laws and within the confines of these "reservations", a borderline police state.

Anyone see this thing coming to fruition, at least to some extent?

[freepcrusher]

what is so bad about the "Bell Curve". It's not like they're using racial epithets or anything.