Serious question /pol/.
Redpilled politics aside, it seems that a large percentage of people I know and have met (at home and around the world) are completely fucking retarded. I know that I am obviously not the most intelligent person to grace the planet, but I do have a pretty good general knowledge about many things and more in depth knowledge in the things I enjoy learning/raging about.
I am also not talking fedora level "hurr I am enlightened" bullshit, but even day to day things.
A large portion of people:
>Have no idea about world major events
>Have zero idea about even local politics
>Can't read a whole news article
>Sometimes can hardly read
>When they do read news they don't read past the headline
>Are slaves to empty social media
>Haven't read a book since the one they sort of read in elementary school
>Are incapable of using spell check let alone punctuation in text message or email
>Listen to the exact same shitty song by 20 different 'artists' (But the same few producers) all day
>Are totally incapable of even minor repairs on anything
>Game all day, but have zero idea of how to reset their router when it lags
>Have the attention span of a gold fish
>See positive/helpful advice from intelligent people as shaming or bigotry
>Have incredibly small world views
>Are completely clueless about basic geography
>Have next to no historical knowledge
>Are completely unable to cook anything
>Have no clue about human health
>Have the emotional strength of a 5 year old
I could go on and on, but it just seems that a large portion of people are just stupid as fuck.
WiFi and especially cell phone radiation brain damage.
And even if it didn't, addiction to the internet (including 4chan) kills attention spans and effectively renders people illiterate, in the same way that porn kills sex drive
>>70657174
>Canada
Shit
You all have a better education system than us, yet we seem to produce more intellectuals here.
Step it up Canadia
>>70657174
Yes
Time for a genocide.
>>70657505
now we're talking
>>70657174
Yuri bezmenov warned you about this future, you did nothing to stop it. Your country has been fed commie propaganda for generations and now you can't stop this train, it's going full speed.
Idiots have always been plentiful and every generation has complained about it.
So no people are not getting stupider, they have always been stupid.
>>70657174
Idiocracy was a documentary. I'm not joking. Do you remember the opening scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E
Except replace "Cletus" or whatever with a nigger/spic. Whites under 5 became a minority in this country in 2014. Whites under 18 will be a minority by 2018.
>>70657174
No, you're just able to interact with them more commonly.
>>70657505
yes
>>70657548
He's canadian you dip.
Which is pretty much america,but colder,.
>>70657174
No, people are becoming radically more intelligent. Compare the basic understanding of the world and everyday life of a modern wage-slave and a medieval futile serf.
The problem is that more information and understanding do not linearly produce better performance. Knowledge is an iterative process, and by degrees the average man becomes wiser as the mistakes of the previous generation become socially apparent.
Governments deliberately and calculatingly manipulating the public ethos and the mainstream narrative corrodes this process, but cannot prevent it. Look at Soviet Russia.
>>70657632
I think we've been thrown off balance since the 80s. The idiots increase in number every year
>>70657505
get real
that genocide should include pretty much all 4chan users
everyone here is a pseudo intellectual idiot who probably fits more than half of OP's bullet points
>>70657783
Serfs were happier and more fulfilled than wage slaves, and most people were never even fit for literacy, let alone the information age overload. Ignorance is bliss except for a select few who actually lead and record.
>>70657174
Your observations are correct, see r/K theory. Liberalism is at an all time high.
>>70657174
Teach us then oh enlightened one
And no, people are not getting more stupid. 4chan has a tendency of creating holier-then-thou persons, you know, the sort of "superior human beings".
You will grow out of it once you spend more then a couple of month here
I think a subset of people are just getting smarter due to the flood of information we've become addicted to.
Looking back I was pretty dumb 10 years ago.
>>70657730
I know, thats why I said generations and full speed, murica is a much more moral country, compared to canada.
>>70657908
^this guy has a point
>mfw when anon is talking about me
They were always retarded but had less outlets to express it.
>>70657174
people arent getting more stupid, theyre just more vocal
>>70658047
I am glad you read the first paragraph.
>>70657174
Ground water everywhere has been contaminated with lead what do you expect soon we will be like the middleeast
>>70658141
This is why public high school should be abolished, and most people should marry young again and start working by 16-18.
The people who are really fit for higher learning should be able to go to university if they can pass a test
>>70658141
I taught myself motorcycle maintenance with google. There's literally no excuse for being ignorant other than, "Give me a minute to google that"
>>70658141
>When I think about what I learned in high school, that I use today, I can think of nothing.
What shitty high school did you go to? I graduated in 2004 and still use things from it. Knowledge is compounded: What you learn then effected what you learn later and effects what you learn and know now.
>>70657174
Yeah. They are. Meanwhile, I'm getting vastly more intelligent, due to use of psychedelic microdosing and VERY occasional psychostimulant doses.
My brain and physical conditioning have been rendered nearly superhuman over the last couple years. It's kinda scary.
>>70658199
This. So much fucking this.
Every fucking retard or mentally ill pan fucking sexual can go on the internet and share his "opinions" and "views" with a broad group that has the same view. The worst thing is that these idiots even get enough attention to be mentioned on mainstream Lügenpresse, infecting even more people with their warped world views.
>>70657174
No, idiots just have more outlets to showcase their stupidity and no one is allowed to call them out on their stupidity because of muh feelings
>>70657992
>Ignorance is bliss
Yeah, and death is a peaceful escape from all wants or needs. Doesn't make it a good thing
>>70657783
Rare
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