Quote:
Originally Posted by FatherSioux
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
IQ rises steadily across time, people are most definitely not getting dumber. Dumb people can't snag mates as well as smarties.
Dumb people of old are now slightly smarter, plus they have access to many tools to polish the turds they sell.
The internet is in the top 5 of most influential inventions/discoveries in human history.
|
The intent of the statement is to call attention that false doctrines are very well-reinforced by the net, and a profound ignorance can be sustained to the extent of flat-earthing, complete with the illusion of a critically-thinking social circle. The notion of "authority figures" has collapsed completely along with public trust in the postwar narrative and American institutions. Care for the classical norms of our civilization are also disintegrating, with majorities cheering on street violence, censorship honestly seeming necessary even to me perhaps, etc.
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] So now, dumb people THINK they are much smarter than they are, and instead of being too embarrassed and lonely and impoverished to speak about it they squawk excitedly because they've confused all professed "experts" as equal, and therefore all of "informed opinion" as a choice of preferred aesthetics. After all, global warming isn't real and therefore all of science is out the window.
Since the most preferred aesthetic is vicious, short-term-minded anti-intellectualism we are placed in peril. The plebs are united in stupidity and our malfeasant leaders are not standing up to the Net's scrutiny sufficiently to impart a wise Daddy Dom energy into their little heads, unless they spew a bunch of hateful and ignorant bs to ride along. What's worse, we've been declining for so long now that even our rulers are just as stupid as most of you. If you watched Joe Rogan's rise you will understand what values are selling presently. Vacant "curiosity". Barely-hidden animus. Etc.
We should have demanded that every American citizen receive sufficient education in physics, chemistry and biology to develop a worldview grounded in scientific theory. Everyone should have done the optical experiments and chemistry to demonstrate atomic theory and the incredible granularity of our understanding of certain matters. I should be able to talk basic genetics and the mechanisms of vaccines etc with anyone. And they should have a realistic understanding of what is feasible at the outer limits of today's scientific theory. Every American citizen should feel comfortable disagreeing with a very "qualified" charlatan who's lying about the very basic building blocks of the physical world, instead of deferring to authority whenever convenient.
For instance the vaccine is not going to microchip or sterilize you, I promise. If it were doing either of these things, it would be extremely easily found-out. I sure wish technology were that advanced. Wouldn't you care to know about it if it were???
On the flip-side, COVID-19 was as likely engineered in a laboratory (yes, really.) as it is to have appeared naturally. It's a splice of several unlikely germs which appeared in a highly suspect location. It could have been recombined thus naturally, or equally plausibly, created in a laboratory. So you see, bothering to learn shit does bring some excitement and anti-establishment POV. Instead of flowing in the most typical tardo channels. Buying in to Russiagate 2. Election Fraud that Trump was telegraphing he would whine about no matter WHAT if he lost, 2 weeks before the election even happened, even tho he had no specific leads to reference then or now...