It also woke some people up who weren't dense in the head.
Fifty percent of the population has an IQ of 90-110. The lower the IQ, the less people worry because they can't make a connection from one happening affecting another happening. IQs from 90 down will never get it. IQ 105-108-109, can reason enough, 110 up have excellent reasoning power to identify problems and see the world as it really is unless they refuse to, due to some societal conditioning that keeps them from moving forward, keeps them stuck where they are.
The smarter a person is, the more problems they can identify and think through to change the outcome for themselves. Preppers tend to be smarter than those who can't identify problems. So, using a non-scientific, non-psychological term, dumb people are happier than smart people.
It was part of my job when I was a professional counselor, that I oversaw the classrooms for the mentally retarded (intellectually challenged or whatever now). The Down’s Syndrome children (IQ 20-40s), were always happy if they had water, food and a bed. Their world was right there and they were happy. They couldn't comprehend/reason, so they couldn't identify a problem.
So, the smarter you are, the more problems you can identify. Preppers try to manage the severity of these problems so they won't be devastating to the family if conditions occur to bring living problems about.
One more comment. In psychology, we can say a group of like people tend to do “x”. HOWEVER, we cannot predict what an individual person will do. Individuality is just that, individual and every person is an individual.
1. Reasoning power is worthless when the framework of logic is based on faulty premises. (Accepting faulty premises runs rampant among academic elites.)
2. When I’m told that refusing to agree with an opinion (one which is not self evident) categorizes an individual as “dumb,” I become very skeptical of the whole thing.
3. I prefer to ask myself the question: what would motivate an agenda to influence widespread expectation of societal collapse?
“Fifty percent of the population has an IQ of 90-110. The lower the IQ, the less people worry because they can’t make a connection from one happening affecting another happening. IQs from 90 down will never get it. IQ 105-108-109, can reason enough, 110 up have excellent reasoning power to identify problems”
I didn’t realize those numbers. I’ll have to quote them to my mother who doesn’t understand why I don’t have a social life. I don’t consider a social life smiling and listening to morons talk. Nearly everyone in my family qualifies for Mensa. I joined a book club once. They were no doubt relieved I only attended once. The book hit the circular file. I’m a prepper because those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it, and it’s common sense. But then I’m over 50 and remember asking what my grandmother’s root cellar was and why she had it. One of the reasons I like FR is because there are intelligent, conservatives to share with.