The U.S voted for a convicted felon, there are people who don’t believe in the efficacy of vaccines but do believe in fairies and astrology? Oh…and don’t get me started on the flat earthers and climate change deniers. Instead of getting smarter, we’re getting increasingly dumber
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
Improper use of “To & Too” is becoming much more mainstream on social media, including posts by actual professionals. Improper “Their, There & They’re” also falls under the epidemic category.
The complete lack (and somewhat terrifying extinction) of critical thinking skills as well as media literacy. The amount of people who take things as truth because they said so on a website or the news without doing any of their own research is horrific. Everything is just taken at face value when it takes less than 10 seconds to do a quick Google search and verify a couple of sources. We live in an age where you can have any information you could ever possibly want at your fingertips at all times, yet we are dumb.
Even when people are hyperaware of bad actors from foreign countries and A.I. bots on social media platforms, there’s virtually zero skepticism around interactions with anons on the internet. Even people who claim to exercise skepticism tend to be dishonest to both themselves and others about how much they’re really exercising their critical thinking skills.
You can say the stupidest thing against science. If yo stick to it, eventually some people will believe in it.
Look at the antivax community. The doctor (Andrew Wakefield) who wrote that theory lied to get famous more than 20 years ago. He was struck off the medical register in the UK in 2010, meaning he could no longer practice medicine. His «study» was retracted by the journal that published it, and numerous subsequent studies found no evidence supporting his claims.
Now the antivax community is composed of millions of followers that prefer their children die than being vaccinated.
We literally do studies on this in most every country. Literacy, critical thinking, logical thinking, attention span, standardized test scores are all on a downward trend.
People paying OF, supporting influencers on TikTok, Twitch etc. I get that it’s their source of entertainment but giving them money all the time is something i won’t understand.
The King James Bible despite its ideological flaws and often morbid depictions is one of the most astoundingly remarkable pieces of literature ever written.
The Book of Mormon makes Twilight smut fanfic look like the greatest literary achievement of mankind. Mark Twain described it as chloroform in print.
Sighs, feels like USA has fucked me over since I served in Vietnam, and a draft dodger became idiot in chief, to visiting other countries and when asked says I’m a Canadian, for fucks sake I feel so pathetic living in a shithole country…
Do we just wave at everything that has happened in the last 10 years? It’s really not that anyone is “Less Smart”. It’s that I think most educational systems aren’t designed to counteract the idiot pulpit that is the internet.
Some are, and they’re helping make the rest of us dumber.
When I was growing up, there was criticism of calculators making math class too easy. We could just punch in the numbers, get an answer, and not actually learn the process.
Now, calculators are a default app on phones with access to the internet and AI. We’re training ourselves to let other things do the work. At some point in the not too far future, Wall-E will have to be re-classified as historical fiction.
Despite hundreds and thousands of years of examples of the authoritarian playbook being used and resulting in suffering for millions, the masses continue falling for the very obvious authoritarians.
Go to any public posting place and pay attention to grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Im not perfect, and I was not in any way a good student, but damn people.
Most people have never been that smart. Intelligent people will get stuck in one perspective and become unmalleable. There is no pressure for anyone to improve, so they won’t.
Comments
scrolling trough tik tok comments
Social media comments and Trump supporters
tide pod challenge and other dumb tiktok challanges
Low profile tires on giant 4×4 trucks.
They voted for him, again
Gestures at the US
The fact that there are people nowadays that think the Earth is flat.
The state of the government
The U.S voted for a convicted felon, there are people who don’t believe in the efficacy of vaccines but do believe in fairies and astrology? Oh…and don’t get me started on the flat earthers and climate change deniers. Instead of getting smarter, we’re getting increasingly dumber
Trump was elected twice
ITT – opinions (some of which I agree with for what it’s worth) that are not “undeniable proof” that humans are not getting smarter.
As a species, there is large amounts of evidence we are collectively getting smarter, possibly at an accelerating rate.
Endless murdering and death
Maga
Endless actionable evidence that we are marching full speed to ecological collapse and the doom of our species , without humanity changing course.
The average redditor.
Humans are on average getting smarter (at least in terms of iq) and that’s an objective fact. Due to nutrition, mostly
Idiocracy is becoming a documentary instead of comedy
Maga
tiktok feed of the avg user. Scary
The feeling of entitlement that emanates from people without actually having done anything worthwhile in their life
Have a look at the US.
They keep voting for Republicans
Dumb influencers oppionions are getting more important than experts.
The fact not even 1% of the country would survive in the wild if the collapse of society happened next week.
A look at the top Youtubers at the moment.
Also, the fact that people pay in OF for what they can find online for free.
Trump
Carl Sagan called it DECADES ago (1995):
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
The fact that Tik Tok was unbanned. I mean you can go on YT shorts or Insta Reels, but these are making us stupid
Points to Whitehouse
Reddit
Seminole, Texas.
Were kids are dying from Measles because their parents don’t trust vaccines.
Trump was elected twice.
Improper use of “To & Too” is becoming much more mainstream on social media, including posts by actual professionals. Improper “Their, There & They’re” also falls under the epidemic category.
People lack critical thinking skills and think social media is news and fact.
Having to put warning labels on everything.
worsening literacy rates. i’d wager basic math skills are way down as well. we’ve been lowering the bar for decades now and it shows.
The complete lack (and somewhat terrifying extinction) of critical thinking skills as well as media literacy. The amount of people who take things as truth because they said so on a website or the news without doing any of their own research is horrific. Everything is just taken at face value when it takes less than 10 seconds to do a quick Google search and verify a couple of sources. We live in an age where you can have any information you could ever possibly want at your fingertips at all times, yet we are dumb.
The 2024 presidential election in the United States.
We have unlimited access to all the information we want, yet a large portion of folks are still spoon fed it from select sources.
Rejection of science and intellectualism. Feels like just a couple of years ago flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers and book bans were a rarity.
The fact that I exist
Well, it seems there a lot more stupid people doing stupid things these days. A lot more than in the past.
Yourself
Reddit
insert pic of me broadly gesturing to absolutely EVERYTHING
Onlyfans millionaires.
See: anti-vaxx movement.
The fact measles is spreading again, even though it was considered eradicated around 2000 because we have a very effective vaccine against it.
Even when people are hyperaware of bad actors from foreign countries and A.I. bots on social media platforms, there’s virtually zero skepticism around interactions with anons on the internet. Even people who claim to exercise skepticism tend to be dishonest to both themselves and others about how much they’re really exercising their critical thinking skills.
We have lived long enough without natural selection that the ones natural selection would’ve picked off have been allowed to breed instead…
Some People are unwilling to recognise a fact, they would much prefer to just deny something and give no evidence as to why.
Maybe we should reconsider this Internet thing.
TikTok, Kamala vs Trump.
Reality TV still exists
Just check r/conspiracy
“Do Not Eat This Wrapper”
You can say the stupidest thing against science. If yo stick to it, eventually some people will believe in it.
Look at the antivax community. The doctor (Andrew Wakefield) who wrote that theory lied to get famous more than 20 years ago. He was struck off the medical register in the UK in 2010, meaning he could no longer practice medicine. His «study» was retracted by the journal that published it, and numerous subsequent studies found no evidence supporting his claims.
Now the antivax community is composed of millions of followers that prefer their children die than being vaccinated.
Have you been outside lately?
Current events as of late..
We literally do studies on this in most every country. Literacy, critical thinking, logical thinking, attention span, standardized test scores are all on a downward trend.
History
Some are getting smarter, some are just getting fed shit and they’re swallowing it up so they appear thick as shit.
If I hear another MF say, “Who cares they do (xyz)… They getting money”…. That’s the #1 sign.
People paying OF, supporting influencers on TikTok, Twitch etc. I get that it’s their source of entertainment but giving them money all the time is something i won’t understand.
The world as a whole and some individual nations/people have enough wealth to fix almost all the problems facing humanity and yet they don’t.
*gestures broadly*
Average facebook comment section. So glad I deleted that garbage years ago
Mkcroplastics are in our brains now. We didn’t have that before
A Supreme Court Justice could not define a woman.
This whole thread is undeniable proof
Gestures at every conservative and fundamentalist on the planet, and specifically lingers that gesture when pointing at Americans.
When a “may contain nuts” label is placed on a bag of nuts.
Point to their Reddit app instead of Facebook
People still haven’t moved away from tribalism and social hierarchy.
People vandalizing Teslas because they think it will have any effect on Musk.
The Flynn effect is reversing itself
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-iq-scores-decline-reverse-flynn-effect/
The King James Bible despite its ideological flaws and often morbid depictions is one of the most astoundingly remarkable pieces of literature ever written.
The Book of Mormon makes Twilight smut fanfic look like the greatest literary achievement of mankind. Mark Twain described it as chloroform in print.
We can’t even write a good holy book anymore smh.
Sighs, feels like USA has fucked me over since I served in Vietnam, and a draft dodger became idiot in chief, to visiting other countries and when asked says I’m a Canadian, for fucks sake I feel so pathetic living in a shithole country…
Reddit.
What’s yours? Otherwise this is a loaded question.
Facebook – Reddit – X – Only fans – The View –
Voting for Trump
Some people still think Donald Trump is a good man.
Voting MAGA
America voted for Trump – Twice!
They voted for Trump…again
Do we just wave at everything that has happened in the last 10 years? It’s really not that anyone is “Less Smart”. It’s that I think most educational systems aren’t designed to counteract the idiot pulpit that is the internet.
Any and all social media.
voted trump twice
6 women paying to go up to “space” for 2 mins thinking it’s feminism
Reddit
The front page of reddit
Everyone knows what the Darwin Awards are.
Gestures broadly at The United States…
Trump voters
Trump. Nuff said.
The average Redditor.
:::gestures broadly at everything::: 🫠
Humans are definetly getting smarter it’s just the dumbest people that usually stand out
Facebook
reddit
gestures at everything and everyone in particular
Tiktok
The collective masses pushing human population to unsustainable levels. Why keep building the tower until it collapses?
Some are, and they’re helping make the rest of us dumber.
When I was growing up, there was criticism of calculators making math class too easy. We could just punch in the numbers, get an answer, and not actually learn the process.
Now, calculators are a default app on phones with access to the internet and AI. We’re training ourselves to let other things do the work. At some point in the not too far future, Wall-E will have to be re-classified as historical fiction.
Despite hundreds and thousands of years of examples of the authoritarian playbook being used and resulting in suffering for millions, the masses continue falling for the very obvious authoritarians.
Their English is so broken it’s another language
Go to any public posting place and pay attention to grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Im not perfect, and I was not in any way a good student, but damn people.
Someone somewhere has the collated file of everything ever asked of chatgpt. Reading this would be my proof of humans stupidity
Most people have never been that smart. Intelligent people will get stuck in one perspective and become unmalleable. There is no pressure for anyone to improve, so they won’t.
77.3 million people voted for Donald J. Trump
A convicted felon and con artist.
tRump won, enough said.
Just browse reddit to get your proof.
They keep voting for Trump.
There I said it.
Im not sure what the reason is but i feel like in a few decades we are gonna forget how to breathe
We literally carry the sum of human knowledge in our pockets… and use it to argue with strangers and watch cat videos
Election results.
Look at who is the president right now