I swear, the collective IQ of Americans is decreasing by the day. Hell, by the hour! I was on YT comments last night (as well as Quora and Reddit)… Idiocracy is not just a movie -_-
Yes, many of the dumb comments are from overseas idiots, but the majority of them are American (some clearly very American threads).
We have a few geniuses (like Edison, Franklin, Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Darwin, etc) that literally carry our species. If not for a few oddball geniuses, our species would be screwed, bc the rest of us are dumb as shit. ESPECIALLY the ppl on YT, instagram, etc.
Holy shit, just when you think Americans can’t get any dumber…surprise!
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people tend to be shittier on the internet
yeah, I agree sampling might be the issue, YT in general can be one of the grossest places on the internet and Reddit……hoooo I won’t even register on that nutty place
Quora it’s sad, because there are still some really smart corners, but they’re hidden corners now. I got hooked on it when it let me talk to PhDs about advanced chemistry, I never had the patience for it in the classroom, but in little bite sized essays….. sometimes I wonder if I missed my calling
Oh or history PhDs about what REALLY happened in 19th century Europe, wild stuff, just wild
well…2.7 BILLION ppl use YT. And more than ¼ of the world’s population uses YouTube every month.
I think that’s a pretty representative# as figures go. O_o
The human species is doomed. Half are dumb as shit, with NO reasoning skills, and the other half are just jackasses/selfish pricks. These are our fellow humans -_-
but do they comment? I rarely do except for on channels of my friends, and even that is recent
I think there is a reasonable sized, maybe not half, say…. 10% of the species that is of decent wisdom and intellect, and is just not that vocal in any way
I used to knock on doors….. and every now and then I’d meet people and be like “WHY AREN’T YOU OUT TALKING TO PEOPLE?! YOU’RE SANE” lovely, reasonable people, hidden in the suburbs
“I think there is a reasonable sized, maybe not half, say…. 10% of the species that is of decent wisdom and intellect, and is just not that vocal in any way”
>>that may be the case, and i probably agree with the #, but isn’t 10% also a pathetically small # of decently intelligent ppl? that means 90% are idiots… O_o
well, tiered in some way, say 60% are idiots, but the thing about it is…. I guess the way I think about it that’s always been the way it has been. we burned witches and got the Chinese hooked on Opium because we really really REALLY liked tea…….. history is chock full of evidence of idiocy
the only difference is, now it’s being observed
oh it’s way more than 60% idiots. way more. -_-
getting the Chinese hooked on Opium to steal their tea is just pure greed and evil, not idiocy. very calculated move.
i wouldn’t be making emotional observations without the data. i don’t think anyone is stupid, but people certainly can beome morally stunted leading into worse cognitive performance.