They just can’t help themselves
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TL:DR: bunch of “we don’t know why people are getting dumber, maybe iq tests bad, could be pollution/diet or phone screens!”. No mention of mass importation of lower iq people, the dissolution of the two parent households or rampant loss of objective based education, on and on.
I'm 100% convinced that these contribute to the issue. our diet is so shit compared to even 50 years ago, and the newer generations are growing up with all the shit chemical filled food that we have. as for phone screens, the level of instant gratification that we have today is off the charts compared to even 10 years ago. Critical thinking is no longer a requirement for functioning in this world, and I guarantee we are seeing the downstream effects.
That's a good point. I was already onboard the 'diet/pollution' element, and I know screens can be bad, but hadn't really thought about it specifically in the IQ sense.
Not sure if phones make you dumber, at least in the way most people think of, but they do reduce certain elements like you said, like critical thinking. Which would absolutely reflect on IQ test results.
I'd also throw (over)vaccination into the mix. The whole 'autism' thing is used as a scapegoat (whether or not there's some truth there), but I think it's fair to say that the massive increase in childhood vaccines are at least possibly causing adverse effects. It's insane that they don't want to talk about even that, when I phrased it in the most vague and lukewarm way I could.
Whatever is causing people to be dumber, it's at least not completely natural, which means it's - intentionally or otherwise - being done to us. So being told it's a good thing by people who side with the people likely behind the act, just makes it even more clear that it's not a good thing.
I imagine that access to the Internet in general has, at least to some extent, had some impact on self reliability with regards to problem solving.
Instead of thinking through possible solutions to try or doing your own research/investigation, it's almost always easier to just run a search to find out how to address things.
Not that I'd say it's a one sided trade-off, because honestly there does come a point to where trying to figure out and investigate everything yourself does become a tedious mess, but it might still come with some price.