Yes we are
We are dumber than in my youth....1950s -70s
Its the demographic seismic shift and subsequent IQ lags they bring
Equal in Gods eyes only.
It’s my opinion that humans are more stupid now than they’ve ever been. I truly believe that the most illiterate medieval peasant had more sense-—common sense, certainly-—than many today, and would be shocked at the blank-eyed dumbness he would find in this age.
Just one case in point: last week’s Fox expose of college students being asked what event happened on September 11th. Most of them didn’t know the answer, even after being prompted.
I think people in the 80s were smarter to. I was a teenager and I did stupid teen things, but I knew common sense when it came to politics. While most of my friends were worrying about girls and football and partying(Which I did also) I was thinking of politics and the world.
To take instruction from another is to tacitly acknowledge that the other may know something one does not know. This once hopefully temporary acceptance of "inferiority", inexorably led to a loss of "Self Esteem," especially when combined with authority, method, or discipline.
We absolutely cannot have loss of "Self Esteem." Thus, we cannot transmit factual knowledge to someone who doesn't have it because the ignorant must be equal to those who may not be ignorant. And the ignorant vote to decide their own fate and yours.
“demographic seismic shift”
The average American IQ is 100. The average Mexican IQ is 90. Central America - didn’t bother to check; it is probably lower. But according to Boehner and Obama, they are our future.
We don’t have a push to excercise our actual intellect. If you don’t exert it, the intelligence atrophies.