Ever worry there might be something to the plotline in the cult classic movie “Idiocracy?”
You know; the movie where a man from our time is put into hibernation and wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover he’s surrounded by nearly brainless people.
That plotline, according to Stanford University research Gerald Crabtree, isn’t so far-fetched. No, not the hibernation part; the dumbing down of the population part!
Crabtree says our comfortable way of living and lack of evolutionary pressures have given way to a higher incidence of people who are dumber than our forbearers.
"I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen of Athens of 1,000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions," Crabtree wrote in a study that appeared in Trends in Genetics, according to the Huffington Post. "I would also guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues."
While Crabtree has his share of critics in the scientific world, we want to hear from you Tampa Bay!
Do you think people are becoming dumber? Is our instant gratification lifestyle having an impact on our intellect? Share your opinions in the comments section.
As for the dumbing down ... the globalists all use "Getting to Denmark" as a catchphrase for the supposed social and political nirvana to which they aspire. A retired British policeman (now dead) had this to say about Denmark: http://rense.com/general79/brave.htm I hope that's now where we're going. But it looks like it is, unfortunately.
My work here is done.
Under her bio, the author has misspelled 'The Bascis:'. Maybe we all have to many details to manage now.
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So what you are saying is that the Rich should pay less as a percentage of income than the middle class. Both the Upper and Lower classes pay on average 14% of their income in taxes. But the Middle Class pays on average 30% of their income on Taxes. Maybe people just want all three classes to pay the same amount. That everyone pays their fair share. It is called an income tax because you are taxed on the income you make, everyone should pay the same percentage. As far as the other stuff you mentioned. Yes the Democrats are the only party that developed those things. I guess the Republican written Affordable Health Care Act is a democrat only idea. Also surprisingly it passed through a Republican House and Senate. My ability to do research and understand how the government works allows me to know these things. Welfare is originally a Republican idea as well... oooh those damn Democrats using the Republican ideas. Mitt Romney wasn't going to do anything to change the system as much as Obama isn't. A Civics and an American Government class would have taught you that. Again proof that our society is getting dumber.
It is a relative meaning, but it is the scale that we currently have. Also IQ is just a tool, based on a test in most cases, and like all tests the standard is flawed. If you go by IQ one of the most intelligent people in the world is a porn star. Then again, she did retire as a millionare at age 23.
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So why is the Republican Congress voting to raise expendatures. Again, Civics and American Government classes. Both parties want you under the need of the government. Which party was it that allowed every phone call, text message, email to be data mined and held by the government to use how and when they feel the need? How do you think we are affording that?
40+40x0+1=? Now remember, according to the study only 20% of Americans (over 16) got this right with sample size was over 50,000 last time I checked.
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