To think people are getting noticeably stupider

[CurdinHenry]

At every level of capability it just feels like the species is in decline

The phrase, “I’m so confused,” has become annoyingly attached to any request for clarification. It makes the writer sound like a befuddled waif.

From an evolutionary pov, humans are the only animals who support the weak and infirm (and the stupid). No survival of the fittest here. So stupid breeds more stupid!

I opened up and actual paper map the other day, and just couldn't believe this is how I used to get around before! Smart phones and now ai has made us more stupid than ever.

Wokeism has skewed things - there are many truths which are denied or lies which are promoted because it isn’t ‘kind’ - transgenderism for one

They’re not, the stupidity is just visible as people are posting it on social media rather than sharing it within their living rooms/the local boozer.

It's called empathy 🙄

In the 1990s, I was interviewing for a trainee sales exec. I saw about twenty, all graduates.

I hired the only one who could give me 10% of a number without using a calculator.

I suspect things have got even worse!

Untrue ... you didn't look that up, did you?! Lots of animals actively care for the old, the sick and the injured. There are many instances of inter-species caring, too.

Don't trust your received wisdom 😏

Okay ... Let's take your need for a revolution at face value. The next step in this thought process is to ask: Does Reform have the experience, the knowledge and the incorruptible morality to provide the alternative you seek?

You might be right, and also Reform might not be the solution.

Same here!

Extrapolating the comparative intelligence of a two different generations of children from a short video clip of 3 children is, in itself, a very stupid thing to do…. Ironic.

you can’t blame the capitalist machine and mum and dad working so having less time for their kids - it was ever thus

going back to my DD - during the election we had some interesting debates and she had some good knowledge that she had picked up off social media. I do think that generation (alpha?) may be better as they have been brought up being told to evaluate what they read.

i do worry that jobs in this country will disappear abroad to better educated populations - nearshoring to Portugal and Spain is popular.

you can’t blame the capitalist machine and mum and dad working so having less time for their kids - it was ever thus

Was it? I was born in the early 80s. Almost every child in my primary school either had a mum who didn't work or one who worked very part time.

patents spend more time with their kids today then they did at any point in the past. Will see if I can dig out the stats on that

Ah yes, the good old days when the proles knew their place and contentedly served their superiors without complaint. They knew better than to express any personal opinions or even speak, unless spoken too, by their betters.
This thread is, quite frankly, horrifying when the attitudes expressed in posts like this are considered.

Biologically and evolutionary what you say makes a lot of sense, although I am not aware of anything empirical to back it up!
In the days before fertility technology and revolutionary medicine, the continuation of our species relied entirely on survival of the fittest. This meant physically and intellectually.
Today, we give life artificially and maintain life artificially - so we are less dependent on what evolution literally depended on until the 21st Century.

Moderators, are you happy to let horrifying eugenicist posts like this, and others on this thread, stand?
Just wanted to have some clarity on where the MN authorities stand on espousing the extermination of the genetically 'undesirable' in society. Given the tolerance the mods show for rampant ableism on here my hopes for your response are not high.

IT IS MORE STUPID FFS LOL

'spend time with'.

Spend time with doing life affirming / educational / quality of life things?

Or spend more time with in the same house whilst child/ren and parents are glued to their smart phones / ipads?

Citation: 'girls go to mars to get more smart, boys go to jupiter to get more stupider'

happier?
Tastier

espousing the extermination of the genetically 'undesirable' in society

Really? Where have I written or even insinuating such.

Did you miss the 'evolutionary point of view'. It's a thread about why people are stupid!

Of course I support people who are disadvantaged getting help. Thank goodness for the NHS and all the help we give others who can't work due to disability etc.

Thanks for proving my point with your response!

Well I think that was the point.

dads in particular spend a lot more time with their kids than their fathers did. Mothers it hasn’t changed considerably.

It was in The Economist and compared time spent with kids/on hobbies/working and doing housework

i I recall men did more hobbies and kids but less work and housework!

Humans have provided care for the sick and disabled for many centuries, prior to modern medical developments. You seem to be labouring under the, frankly baffling, misapprehension that, before the 1970s or so, anyone who was not a specimen of physical human perfection would have not have survived, this was clearly not the case. There is nothing new, or unusual, about society supporting people of differing abilities and needs.
How long do you think humans would continue to exist if we didn't care for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society, tiny babies?

I think both happy and tasty have just one syllable.