Hi, folks!
It's my personal belief that we as a nation are getting stupider by the day.
I don't mean that we make bad choices -- I mean that literally, our average intelligence is dropping with every new generation.
Stupid parents are having more babies than smart parents, and our well-developed civilization makes it easy for even the very stupid to survive and breed another generation.
Well, of course that's the case -- civilization is supposed to make it easy to survive. That's its whole reason for being!
... But civilizations fall; and one of the reasons they fall is that their populations eventually become too stupid to maintain them. In fact, every civilization before this one has fallen, and many of them lasted much longer than this one has.
Our world population has ballooned to 7 BILLION people. That's so many people that if you counted ten of them every second, it would take you almost 222 YEARS to count them all! That large a population places a huge strain on the environment and resources of our planet, and if we don't get a whole lot smarter very fast, our civilization will collapse under the weight of all those billions.
It's time to put our collective heads together and come up with solutions that will work.
So, first of all -- do you agree or not that people are becoming stupider? And what, if any, evidence can you present to support your opinion?
Secondly, if you DO agree that people are becoming stupider, what solutions can you propose to reverse that trend? What do you see as the root causes, and how would you propose to address those causes?
Thanks in advance to all who participate on the thread!
-- Paravani
It's my personal belief that we as a nation are getting stupider by the day.
I don't mean that we make bad choices -- I mean that literally, our average intelligence is dropping with every new generation.
Stupid parents are having more babies than smart parents, and our well-developed civilization makes it easy for even the very stupid to survive and breed another generation.
Well, of course that's the case -- civilization is supposed to make it easy to survive. That's its whole reason for being!
... But civilizations fall; and one of the reasons they fall is that their populations eventually become too stupid to maintain them. In fact, every civilization before this one has fallen, and many of them lasted much longer than this one has.
Our world population has ballooned to 7 BILLION people. That's so many people that if you counted ten of them every second, it would take you almost 222 YEARS to count them all! That large a population places a huge strain on the environment and resources of our planet, and if we don't get a whole lot smarter very fast, our civilization will collapse under the weight of all those billions.
It's time to put our collective heads together and come up with solutions that will work.
So, first of all -- do you agree or not that people are becoming stupider? And what, if any, evidence can you present to support your opinion?
Secondly, if you DO agree that people are becoming stupider, what solutions can you propose to reverse that trend? What do you see as the root causes, and how would you propose to address those causes?
Thanks in advance to all who participate on the thread!
-- Paravani
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