The stupid part I put down to more nigger, mudslimes, and the smarter professional classes simply having no kids or fewer kids.
But for fuck sake, what I would have given at age 12 to have the access to info people have today. I was stuck with a shitty 10 year old encyclopedia set, a bad school library, and a 14.4 modem.
I'm 31, which means people younger than I grew up with almost same level of access to info I have now...and are RETARDED. Why?
Example-- there is a thread with Americans seriously asking about the odds of Trump picking Sanders as a VP. How do they have access to so much information and yet not even understand basics?
Am I the only one who has noticed this? I know it's true that Iq is going down in the West, that's a fact.
I hope Trump outlaws all fucking video games in the US unless you pass a certain exam given quarterly.
I also posted in that thread and was just as disgusted at the madness as you are. I made the comment about how it's only millennials and younger gen X (anyone who was born during the late 70s & early 80s.) who actually want to vote for Bernie.
I'm also an old fag like you at 33 so I can't really answer your question. I still look young and am often mistaken for early 20s but I do not understand why our generations are so absent-minded.
I do critiicsized a lot for being on the pc all the time. My favorite accusation is that everything on the internet is fake. Which is funny to me, because it's exactly as you said, we have nearly limitless information at our finger tips which actually negates the need to go to college for the most part. About the only information that's not available on the internet or at least the public surface level internet are the highly specialized information that only the USA's top universities' libraries have access to.
It's funny when you think about it, College universities now play the role that churches once did in the West. They control and monitor who has access to certain kinds of knowledge which is normally not available to the public.
>>74063222
Just because you have access to the information, that doesn't mean the information is of any certain quality or even truth, and having to parse so much bullshit takes its toll. Can't blame video games for that. Ultimately talk is cheap, gets cheaper by the hour, and the cheaper it gets the louder the more ignorant and frustrated assholes get. In the past year, the SJWs have gone full retard, with no signs of stopping or even slowing down. Civilization is at an end, just how it is, all you can do is hold on and enjoy the show.
>>74063222
Because white people are in the worst case depending on the country in a 6th generation of a mass educated populace. It's no longer a novelty to know stuff. People just stick to specialized knowledge for their job or to popular stuff for their free time. Enjoy the democratization of life.
>>74063222
I know exactly what you mean my friend, i know because i grew up witnessing this for the most part.
I'm 19 now.
You see, people years and years back, im talking hundreds, hell maybe even thousands always thought that the day the information became globalized and instantly accessible to almost anyone who wants to find it, the world and the people in it would become better because they can educate themselves in every facet imaginable!
And it's only reasonable to think that if humans were given the opportunity to have the world's knowledge at their fingertips they would take advantage of it, right? Wrong.
Now that we HAVE been endowed with this amazing databank of information that is the internet, people have utilized it so now they can be even lazier and MORE stupid because now, they have no need to actually retain knowledge or learn anything, because now if they are ever hard-pressed for information on a subject, may it be scholastically or even in an informal debate or discussion with their peers, boom they just google it and they have the info.
So now they focus their brainpower on the more idiotic trivial things in life and become full hedonists whilst completely ignoring the endless vast wealth of knowledge to be gained.
>TL;DR: the technological revolution backfired on us
>>74063479
IQ is going down only because whites are being replaced by blacks and Arabs.
>>74064261
>>74064199
>>74063479
IQ for the average person literally means nothing. The problem is that elites aren't elites anymore and there is noone to be a good aspiration within a nation.
>>74064584
I'm not quite following you, Bulgar.
I'm assuming what you're trying to say is that, because of globalization of information, it has gotten rid of the ages old tradition of certain elites holding the bulk of the education and information and thereby controlling the rest of the mass uneducated populous, and this is somehow not a good thing.
But again my experience is that people in my age group have no reason to be interested in anything outside their immediate surroundings or pop culture, because anything they would ever need to know is already there, so they don't feel the need to know it themselves.
for instance, i love researching history, and foreign cultures, and languages, etc.
In fact, i took particular interest in slavic culture, and thanks to easily accessible plethora of information out there, it's taught me Bulgaria is one of the chiefly responsible ones for the cyrillic alphabet, because of their proto-text, which was glaglolitic, where as my peers my age, couldn't tell you what state our own nation's capital is, and we're ten times more relevant than Bulgaria (no offense)
But they could talk for hours about nicki minajs latest scandal, and what vines are "dope"
>>74064261
I made that point in original post anon. I'm just more..I mean, OK, I was a geeky type (out with my shitty$150 telescope, a sky chart, and a flashlight covered in red cellophane in middle of winter).
Now there is an "app" that will actually do all the math for you based on your GPS ad find where stars are, or you can hook up your laptop to some telescopes and they will find anything you ask and then you can take pics.
This is just one example. But fuck, what I would not have given for the info available here. Older brother went to Harvard, and they have an intl news stand I used to go to whenever I visited and but every english language paper I could afford from all over world.
Have been working in France for last year (in corporate law) and they don't seem as stupid (at least the Whites), but I rarely meet "young" people as in 17-18 year olds.
In lots of ways, I'm glad to be 31 and an oldfag bc I don't take it for granted like the new generation does.
Was just taking a shit and fucking around my tablet...all the hours I spent at night when I couldn't sleep listening to NYC talk radio, I could have been on "google earth" or actually talking with ppl.
Feels bad man.
>>74063222
>people younger than I grew up with almost same level of access to info I have now...and are RETARDED. Why?
- sugar / preservatives
- entertainment
- education diminution
>>74065243
>so they don't feel the need to know it themselves.
This bothers the fuck out of me. Example-- went to an "elite" Us undergrad, and before you were allowed to write about any poem (even something as long as "The Wasteland"), you had to have it memorized.
It seemed a pain at the time, but grateful that to this day, can recite from memory most of the Norton Anthology. Just not the same with "Why learn when I can look it up anyway.?"
Imagine if the grid is ever really hit with an EMP bomb or a solar flare and jut about all computers are fucking fried and power is out for years?
>i'm old and everyone younger than me is dumb
It's just called losing your youth.
Your generation were idiots to your parent's generation who were idiots to their parent's generation and so on.
Get over it.
>>74063222
> stupider
Just like you.
>>74063222
Things change, nothing we can do about it. I am mostly concerned about how white western men are so effeminate, and they all worship women, they can't say "no" to women, they all let women dominate them and it disturbs me.
I honestly think we just need to let it go. Things will never be the same, western culture has changed far too much. Degeneracy and being misinformed is the norm now.
>>74065474
>sugar / preservatives- honestly, I find this one alex jones tier. Fuck, we ever had "bottled water" or "free range chickens" and my mom smoked while she was pregnant with my and all 3 of my siblings and all do very well (at least in terms of monies
>- entertainment- I agree here. Recall, it would take literally hours just to download a gif, they you had to unzip it, then associate file with he viewer...literally took hours to get a few pictures you wanted. Although, it was a lot more free in that you could download a picture and it would be absolutely sick shit (I mean GENUINE sick shit, not just perverted but illegal snuff type shit from eastern europe)
>- education diminution- Even so, for literally everything, you can teach yourself. Fuck, every Yale Class is available for free on Jewtube. What excuse do college scents have for fucking up when you can literally record your professor and listen or watch lecture over again?
Instead of using all these new tools to make great innovations, the niggers are worried about "safe spaces." And for that I 100% blame Obama for playing into the negro narrative of victimhood rather than killing it once and for all.
>>74065677
I guess you're trying to imply it's not a real word? Is that it?
>M-W Dictionary For Students
> stupider,stupidest
>1
>: not intelligent : slow in understanding
How great is it when the hard on trying to be pedantic is fucking DEAD WRONG?
>>74063222
because ignorance is a bliss.
It is easier to live from on the weekend to weekend basis and spend time on entertainment and boze rather then make an effort. Even getting knowldge takes some effort so it is easier to cut corners and shape your knowledge on opinions and beliefs rather than build your own understanding through study. its heuristics of judgment in practice
there is plenty of distractions around us and its easier to google anything on your phone then read it in a book
>>74065677
What do you have to say for yourself, hard-on? You tried to be pedantic to show off your incredible grasp of the English Language, and were dead fucking wrong?
Now what? Now you go and cower like the cunt you are. It's cases like this that make we wish we had names so I could track you down and beat you senseless.
If you're going to try to be a pedantic dickhead, at least make sure you're not in the fucking wrong. You gave me the best laugh I'll have all day, Habib.
>>74066130
Don't most people just have a sort of genuine curiosity, esp as youth? When young, had 3 siblings and a station wagon and my old man used to drive us to see a different civil war battlefield each weekend.
Which, was cool to see but not the fucking 4 hour rides in summer with no air-conditioning or windows to open. Imagine if I had a head in one of those Yukons that seats six and could go through every city on google earth? And soon (maybe even now) you can do it on occ rift in 3D..
>>74063222
35, oldfag here
>be me, idealistic kid in the nineties
>think the internet is going to make people smarter, and that it will be harder to bullshit and lie with information so readily available.
>fail to realize people are retards who believe everything they read online and don't fact check a thing.
I was so naive. People have very little ability to sift through the huge influx of info.
Its why i never, ever recommend /pol/ to anyone...very few can find the diamonds in the shit in the land of the shitpost.
>>74064584
IQ for the average person means literally nothing because IQ for the average person is 100. If humanity as a whole got stupider, 100 IQ would mean less, because it's always equal to the average.
>>74066745
No, they haven't adjusted the mean to 100 yet, though I assume they will soon to hide this.
People in US and UK and getting dumber, largely bc of the great influx of low-class spics. If they were assets to mexico, they won't be helping them get here.
I can't see a logical argument, even for liberals, against a border wall u less you want to encourage people to break the law.
>>74066448
Anon, recall that 90s movies et at Harvard, where the cuck decides to write his thesis on how the internet and the availability of information is going to make democracy "perfectible?"
I heard a standup telling this joke a while ago...how would you explain to someone in the 1950s that the avg person can noe afford to possess a device in their pocket giving them access to all the world's knowledge and every sort of...basically, give a kid a $150 laptop and every argument SJWs have ever made about poverty and unequal access to education is instantly gone.
I recall in school , one my uni library didn't have a book, I'd have to go to the public one. EVERY FUCKING TIME I went there, you'd find niggers on the public computers looking up "rappers" and trying to find a way to bypass the library's porn filter.
And here I was ( at time could not search catalog from your laptop), so I;m standing her having to wait for a nigger sitting there with his headphones blasting looking at rapers and p3-13 rated pics of negresses with fat asses to leave so I can use fucking card catalog...
>>74063222
basically when you have too much information at your disposal and you dont use it, you become complacent and believe you know everything, despite never learning. the internet is like that; a wealth of information that exceeds every known library of knowledge ever. with all that knowledge you assume you can do anything, so as a result, you do nothing.
>>74063222
It's the media. People need to stop watching TV, listening to radio etc It's all jew controlled brainwashing machine. The school system also creates inbred army of leftists.
>>74068290
Yes anon, i too remember going to the library
(for you new fags thats a brick and mortar building that is full of books, and believe it or not, used to be one of the few places around with a decent connection.)
I really have no idea how school even functions properly any more when kids have their devices on them in class
all the answers are at their finger tips effortlessly, how does this foster learning?
The other awful side effect of the normie invasion has been how every coddled snowflake and angry nigger (THINKS they) have a voice and that we are obligated to give a shit.
Those of us who were online early, still cherish it as an anonymous free space where anything goes, but thats going away in favor of the feels police.
I miss the 90's...pic related
>>74069154
Could not agree more. Lol, can you imagine a movement against something like "creep shots" on the net in the late 90s?
The few normies on the net kept to "aol" or "prodigy." It was genuinely weird in some ways bc you could click on something and see porn that was..let's just say you could not stumble upon it today.
But god yes, the end of the nett www twatter and goybook. People who are 17 today (and amazingly, most of them don't even know hit about the net or how computers work!) cannot imagine bc you had to e able to install shit and actively fix it on your own.
There were no "assistance lines." If a program wasn't working, you just opened it and tried new code and trial and error util you got it to work.
Born too late to explore an uncharted earth, will never get to explore space, but at least we got to explore an uncharted net anon.
90% of people on this site could not have even gotten on the net in the 90s.
