Did the human race reach its intellectual peak between 1930s and 1980s and now we're in a downward spiral | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70737870 United States 01/02/2018 12:17 PM 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 It's a three-pronged attack on intelligence. -There really IS something in the water. (fluoride) The chemical attack includes autism inducing vaccines and low grade foods) -There is no check on low i.q. reproduction. (Govs should at least incentivize non-reproduction) -Mostly though the least curious and least independent minds are being selected as the best candidates for employment. Look at how the system is designed to exclude critical thinkers. Not one of you would get past the first security background test for government employment regardless of qualifications. CT posting on social media is an automatic red flag. Society is selecting for the exact opposite kind of personality. Critical thinkers jump out like purple Jihadis to business and government alike as high level THREATS. (Literally profiled and put on watch lists) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75878521 United States 01/02/2018 12:22 PM 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. It didn't happen by accident. This is mostly by design. The constant poisoning of air, food, and water, the degradation of nutrition in food, the pharmaceuticals, the illicit drugs, the idiotic pop-culture garbage, etc... It's all for the purpose of dumbing people down, making them easier to control, and ultimately, ripe to take the Mark, when it is rolled out. Every day, I marvel as I look around and see just how far people have fallen. They really have become programmed zombies with no real purpose for living. And it's always the low-grade morons who are mindlessly cranking out kids like it's a fucking contest, while the intelligent and responsible people are refraining from having children. Idiots are literally destroying the planet. |
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Forum Administrator 01/02/2018 12:22 PM 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 Its refugees and immigrants from nations where 80 IQ is the norm that is lowering IQ. Quoting: Sungaze_At_Dawn That's simple minded, mean, and just not true. There is NO place where that is the case. There are many places, even in the US, where people don't get a chance to develop intellectual skills, but given a chance we do see great mathematicians coming from India, Africa, South America, actually there is no population anywhere on Earth that is statistically less intelligent especially when it comes to surviving and developing skills to survive. I would have died an early death in many parts of the globe unless I learned how to survive there. The problem you have is that many of these refugees are smarter than you are because they survived an epic journey and they become a successes when given the opportunity while your tired "sophisticated" genome is about to become extinct, and that has you scared. There are outliers in every population. Otherwise, you are drunk on kool-aide. Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" the warrior whispers back "I am the storm" INTJ-A |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 2638587 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 12:26 PM 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 It's a three-pronged attack on intelligence. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70737870 -There really IS something in the water. (fluoride) The chemical attack includes autism inducing vaccines and low grade foods) -There is no check on low i.q. reproduction. (Govs should at least incentivize reproductio One could argue the least integrated into modern society are the smartest. The offspring of high IQ who have seen thuggery is what runs the world Everything you need to understand is already in Brave New World, by Huxley... his brother planned UN strategy et voila Yes.. remove welfare. Break monopolies of elite. All very well but perpetual war is the only way... and you egg heads arent needed to count the beans no more. Thanks for all the fishhhh |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 44277494 United States 01/02/2018 12:31 PM 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 Its refugees and immigrants from nations where 80 IQ is the norm that is lowering IQ. Quoting: Sungaze_At_Dawn That's simple minded, mean, and just not true. There is NO place where that is the case. There are many places, even in the US, where people don't get a chance to develop intellectual skills, but given a chance we do see great mathematicians coming from India, Africa, South America, actually there is no population anywhere on Earth that is statistically less intelligent especially when it comes to surviving and developing skills to survive. I would have died an early death in many parts of the globe unless I learned how to survive there. The problem you have is that many of these refugees are smarter than you are because they survived an epic journey and they become a successes when given the opportunity while your tired "sophisticated" genome is about to become extinct, and that has you scared. You are completely and totally full of shit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70737870 United States 01/02/2018 12:37 PM 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 Of course he was off. Nazis were selecting for conformism and punishing critical thinkers. This is the standard statist approach. They only hire the best followers and only promote sycophants or MK'd robots. Last Edited by LJS on 01/02/2018 02:41 PM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37086160 Canada 01/02/2018 12:43 PM 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 Its refugees and immigrants from nations where 80 IQ is the norm that is lowering IQ. Quoting: Sungaze_At_Dawn That's simple minded, mean, and just not true. There is NO place where that is the case. There are many places, even in the US, where people don't get a chance to develop intellectual skills, but given a chance we do see great mathematicians coming from India, Africa, South America, actually there is no population anywhere on Earth that is statistically less intelligent especially when it comes to surviving and developing skills to survive. I would have died an early death in many parts of the globe unless I learned how to survive there. The problem you have is that many of these refugees are smarter than you are because they survived an epic journey and they become a successes when given the opportunity while your tired "sophisticated" genome is about to become extinct, and that has you scared. There are outliers in every population. Otherwise, you are drunk on kool-aide. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37086160 Canada 01/02/2018 12:44 PM 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 Of course he was off. People here are idolizing him, but the Nazis were selecting for conformism and punishing critical thinkers. This is the standard statist approach. They only hire the best followers and only promote sycophants or MK'd robots. Another lie drooling television casualty. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 56269458 New Zealand 01/02/2018 12:46 PM 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75346820 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. 2 NUCLEARS |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75878521 United States 01/02/2018 12:50 PM 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. This ^^^ is a good illustration of how "education" is by NO means an indicator of intelligence. Just because someone is stupid enough to get good grades in their conformity training, doesn't mean they have a high degree of intelligence. It merely means they have a high degree of gullibility and moldability. |
Robert50 User ID: 76047759 United States 01/02/2018 12:52 PM 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. The I work 70 hours a week excuse is why I don't want children is hilarious being that you take a typical Amish farmer who gets up before first light every morning 6 days a week and works from before dawn to dark. The Amish farmer still has the energy to raise a family of children and a dedicated to his wife for life. A Amish farmer at minimum 80 hours a week. The so-called highly educated PhD is just did not want the responsibility of family life........period! There are people who don't want that responsibility but they don't sit around making lame excuses as to why they don't want the responsibility. |
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User ID: 72234993 United States 01/02/2018 01:10 PM 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 problem is that schools don't teach like they use to. In my day they taught people how to think so they could figure things out for themselves, now they teach our children what to think, By doing it this way they make people reliant on others to do things for them. When you teach children how to think they don't need people to think for them, which means the government loses another dependent and they hate losing control of anything. :Pirate Flag: 8-14-2018 The day Free Speech died in America |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70273097 United States 01/02/2018 01:11 PM 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 Eugenics is a dirty word to many people, by virtue of those who advocated for it in the past. The principle is nothing more than the improvement or tailoring of a species through a process of selective breeding over many generations. All domesticated species that have been used for food or work over countless millenia have been subjected to this process, as have plants used for food or products. Nobody seems to have an issue when these species are tailored over generations, favoring some traits above others. The issue seems to be when we start talking about doing the same thing with human beings. You're basically deciding that one couple's great-great-great grandkids are going to be academics, scientists, inventors, composers - and another couple's are going to be gas-station attendants and janitors. And ideally, they are all going to be healthy and productive to a ripe old age and then die suddenly so there is no long-term drain on the system. Frankly while eugenics may have been a great idea if practiced since the 1800's, it's likely of limited utility these days. Most of the working populace will be made obsolete by technology within the next 40-50 years. It's entirely possible that even the advanced professions will be surpassed by automated intelligent systems by then too. Genetic therapy may help the human race faster and in a more efficient manner than eugenics at this point. And may, to an extent, allow an individual to decide for themself what traits they want to possess. But to what end? If all the important functions in society are performed by AI and robotics, who cares how smart, or strong, or productive you are capable of being? It's a lot easier to come up with the "how" than the "why". |
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User ID: 75177906 United States 01/02/2018 01:15 PM 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 This is the terrifying, obvious truth, and the inevitable outcome that results from taxing productive people (ie stealing their income) in order to feed, house, care, and buy votes from imbecile parasites. Quoting: The Comedian :D Natural selection needs to make a big comeback before humanity is totally fucked. This is literally the simplest solution. Of course, the science-allergic left fights actual Darwinism and its logical application at every turn. Why? Because if actual natural selection were allowed to occur naturally, the left would become extinct in a single generation. Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
The Comedian :D
User ID: 75177906 United States 01/02/2018 01:16 PM 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75346820 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. 2 NUCLEARS ^ 2 illiterate ACs gibbering to each other about gawd knows what ^ Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76066020 Denmark 01/02/2018 01:17 PM 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 short no; typical human point of view, 'Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have also heard that the quote is apocryphal.' In other words, watch this space. Wonders be coming our way. |
The Comedian :D
User ID: 75177906 United States 01/02/2018 01:18 PM 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. This ^^^ is a good illustration of how "education" is by NO means an indicator of intelligence. Just because someone is stupid enough to get good grades in their conformity training, doesn't mean they have a high degree of intelligence. It merely means they have a high degree of gullibility and moldability. What year of high school did you drop out? I can always tell. Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76067796 United Kingdom 01/02/2018 01:46 PM 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... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75763273 "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." or to stop making babies when there is no food... |
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