Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76065392 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 06:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral "Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned. Quoting: Dr. Moran ... Some have even contentiously said this could be because educated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people." [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] It's sad how the PC culture is trying to bury the evident reason for the decline, because it doesn't fit their "everyone's equal" doctrine. Of course, it is about smart and highly educated people choosing not to have kids. I am a smart and highly educated person (PhD + professorship). I was also dead set against having children ever. I used to sugarcoat it by citing moral reasons ("the world's such a clusterfuck that it'd be immoral to have kids"), but my true reason was: "I've spent two decades working 70 h weeks and sacrificed everything in my life - including my social life and health - to advance my career. There's no way in hell I am going to throw it all away by having kids." Then I fell in love, got married and got shafted at work because I couldn't put in the hours like before. I was torn between my obligations at home and those at work, and conseqeuently I burned out and my priorities shifted. I downshifted at work and we had a child. I was 45, my wife was 37. At our age it was touch-and-go, but eventually my wife gave birth to a healthy child. Anyway, the point of my little story is that most people like me will either choose not to have kids or they'll postpone it until it's way too late. Had I not burned out, my marriage would have ended up in a divorce, because that's how hell-bent I was on my career. While recovering from the burn-out, I had time to think about life and how there must be something else than work to it. The realization that I was destroying myself and causing grief to my wife who truly loved me really woke me up, but most people like me will never wake up. Nothing of the sort,it is due to the human race became lazy and will let preprogrammed robots computers to do the work but the new genetically preprogrammed human race was born and no one noticed there take over they only have a need to look after there own class now you know. |
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User ID: 74536704 United States 01/02/2018 07:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Not really a peak, but more like systematically dumbed down. Flouride, common core, dpt of education, and everything else placed in the way of people reaching their potential. Its by design of "them" Professional Vandal by birth Assylum escape artist and roving IQ test 4 legs good, 2 legs bad #plandemic |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75346820 United States 01/02/2018 07:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Look at the bigger picture. We detonated 3 nuclear weapons. Shortly there after we became obsessed with making our homes comfortable and self gratification. Then we got rid of all the taboos about being egotistical. The internet and social media now dominate all interaction. If you think that all just happened and isn’t part of the grand design, you don’t have a clue what’s really going on. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76066511 Germany 01/02/2018 07:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Controlled peak through schools/universities/food/media. They disturb the spread of knowledge just like 500 years ago when they seized / destroyed printing machines. Today they call it net neutrality. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 48252891 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 07:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Look at Netflix for instance they recently got rid of subtitles in foreign films and instead have shit dubbing over the top! Or text speak, where kids prefer to write like retards than actually spell things in proper English. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 59872242 United States 01/02/2018 08:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral "Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned. Quoting: Dr. Moran ... Some have even contentiously said this could be because educated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people." [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] It's sad how the PC culture is trying to bury the evident reason for the decline, because it doesn't fit their "everyone's equal" doctrine. Of course, it is about smart and highly educated people choosing not to have kids. I am a smart and highly educated person (PhD + professorship). I was also dead set against having children ever. I used to sugarcoat it by citing moral reasons ("the world's such a clusterfuck that it'd be immoral to have kids"), but my true reason was: "I've spent two decades working 70 h weeks and sacrificed everything in my life - including my social life and health - to advance my career. There's no way in hell I am going to throw it all away by having kids." Then I fell in love, got married and got shafted at work because I couldn't put in the hours like before. I was torn between my obligations at home and those at work, and conseqeuently I burned out and my priorities shifted. I downshifted at work and we had a child. I was 45, my wife was 37. At our age it was touch-and-go, but eventually my wife gave birth to a healthy child. Anyway, the point of my little story is that most people like me will either choose not to have kids or they'll postpone it until it's way too late. Had I not burned out, my marriage would have ended up in a divorce, because that's how hell-bent I was on my career. While recovering from the burn-out, I had time to think about life and how there must be something else than work to it. The realization that I was destroying myself and causing grief to my wife who truly loved me really woke me up, but most people like me will never wake up. Hmm...this sounds like the beginning of a movie I once saw. Hmm...let me think what movie?... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72016185 United States 01/02/2018 08:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Dumber in comparison to what? In the dark ages, very few, save the clergy, could read at all. Most American colonial small-farmers were illiterate, or nearly so. Although illiterate, they knew how to survive and everyone had a trade, which requires a different sort of education and skill set. Today's children know a lot of facts, but nearly all of it is useless in terms of day-to-day application. Moreover, there is by far more literate people on earth than any other time, but it is hardly put toward furthering understanding of anything meaningful. If anything has been dumbed-down, it is the modern educational system. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 51125507 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 08:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral most of you are retarded with a high iq. some of us know how to do things. if we were given the means to express our potential we'd have all the problems sorted. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 51125507 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 08:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Dumber in comparison to what? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72016185 In the dark ages, very few, save the clergy, could read at all. Most American colonial small-farmers were illiterate, or nearly so. Although illiterate, they knew how to survive and everyone had a trade, which requires a different sort of education and skill set. Today's children know a lot of facts, but nearly all of it is useless in terms of day-to-day application. Moreover, there is by far more literate people on earth than any other time, but it is hardly put toward furthering understanding of anything meaningful. If anything has been dumbed-down, it is the modern educational system. imagine a human mind not restricted by the current operating systems. that;s what you need to understand. language is an operating system for the mind, which version are you running? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73340869 United States 01/02/2018 08:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Devolution [link to www.clubdevo.com] |
Vigilant Guardian User ID: 74520468 Canada 01/02/2018 08:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral I believe 1967 was our intellectual peak. That was the end of classical human education and culture. 1968 was the start of the decline of western society and we've been going downhill ever since. While technically we may be "richer" than in 1967, other than a few trinkets and gadgets we have today our lives are but a caricature of our former human eminence. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 9109693 Canada 01/02/2018 08:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral I believe 1967 was our intellectual peak. That was the end of classical human education and culture. 1968 was the start of the decline of western society and we've been going downhill ever since. While technically we may be "richer" than in 1967, other than a few trinkets and gadgets we have today our lives are but a caricature of our former human eminence. Quoting: Vigilant Guardian 74520468 1967 is when libtardism began kicking in. The war on the nuclear family. "free" love. The welfare state expanded. This enabled low class people to multiply more than anything else. |
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User ID: 75437014 United States 01/02/2018 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Human collective conscience is cyclic in nature. Ebbs and peaks define us from the Stone Age, to Christ, to WW1 and before (cough cough Monolith) ;) [link to inforadictos.com] Jack of all trades master of none "shall not be infringed." BLUE RIBBON AWARNESS FOR MENS' HEALTH Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. --ISAAC ASIMOV I never 'Ad hominem' I don't need to. The Constitution means everything or nothing. You can't have both. |
me User ID: 75951668 United States 01/02/2018 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral no the human race got dumb in that era and we are still dumb you said we peaked between 1930 and 1980, explain the great depression, world war two, (I admit we did pretty well in the 1950's) then the 60's all those stupid freaks smoking pot and killing themselves with drugs, roe vs.wade resulting in the deaths of 60 million innocent americans, then that damn disco music...really, they are the smart ones is that what ur telling me |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73624620 United States 01/02/2018 08:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Affirmative action destroyed it, as civil rights destroyed our cities. Just what did obama do to deserve a nobel peace prize? What did henry kissinger do to deserve a nobel peace prize? There you have it. Every standard has been mocked. Academia has been trashed. Why did we have to start importing asians? Why is it so necessary to divide one group against another? Who benefits from social chaos? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76066877 United States 01/02/2018 08:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral TECH IS DEAD !!! TECH IS BASED ON 'A TRUTH' ... WHICH IS ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO BE... IN THIS 'TRUTH' YOU GET ANYTHING ... WHICH IS WHY AI IS SO DESTRUCTIVE AND FILLED WITH ERRORS!!! HOWEVER... IF... YOU FOCUS ON 'THE TRUTH' WHICH IS ABSOLUTE.. THEN YOU CAN CONTINUE ON AND LIVE FOREVER !!! INSTEAD OF DYING IN UNCERTAINITY, IMPERFECTION AND INCONSISTENCY OF TECH AND WHAT TECH STANDS FOR... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76066864 Hungary 01/02/2018 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral In my certain point of view there was a fork in human race sometimes during the cold war, and the difference between the classes has become wider. Hence the artificialy supported low lifer population was growing faster than the elite, the avarage started to decline. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75763273 United States 01/02/2018 09:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral Here's a great quote from someone on GLP I've saved... "I do believe that modern liberalism has stunted human evolution. The burden of nursemaiding the lesser races has been a yoke around the white man's neck for the past 50 - 100 years. Otherwise, white man would be well on his way colonizing other planets by now. We went from inventing the first airplane to landing on the moon in 65 years. Since then, we haven't done shit. Every effort, minute and spare penny is used for feeding, clothing, educating, healing, sheltering and defending people who haven't even figured out not to shit next to their drinking water yet." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76066877 United States 01/02/2018 09:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral HUMAN IN 1650 AD BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY... IS DEFINED AS A 'MONSTER' !!! IN THIS DEFINITION MANKIND HAS BEEN REDUCED TO NOTHING MORE THAN SOMETHING TO KILL... WHICH IS WHY WE ARE EASILY KILLED OFF !!! HOWEVER... IF... YOU REJECT THIS DEFINITION... AND ACCEPT 'THE TRUTH'... YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER !!! |