Can you deny humanity has been dumbed down immensely?

[Complexion]

Pick up an average person from the street now compared to one from 1999 and the difference would be quite obvious. The irony of people without the net being better informed and aware than those with really speaks volumes as critical thinking especially has all but vanished. Creativity is in the dumps and wave riding is the defacto standard.

Its something I noticed recently and these algos have definitely got something to do with it as people are being fed when they think they're searching but can't tell the difference as their awareness has been shaped to ignore this. Its not just the net, even though thats a huge part of the devolution, as we've seen the general levels of stress be ramped so high that its now a constant background noise that most become numb to because if it ain't one thing is a something something nother... Like all the added environmental toxins, preservatives and the non stop, always on grift that begs and pleads for your attention from your very own portal.

A very interesting time to be in the Game as we were here when the world was still 100% analog and thus can feel the difference. Or maybe not. To me the main thing that stands out is very, very binary thinking (how ironic, considering the sign of the times) with hugely reduced nuance in the forms of shades of gray which means no considering of other perspectives or new information allowed in that doesn't fit what they expect to see in order to confirm their rightness. Crazier still is how people celebrate their ignorance...

Have you noticed the shift?

 

[Satsui no Hadou]

Like some great philosophers have said, modernity and the values of the enlightenment have led to irrationality. Science led to nuclear weapons, the internet and entertainment have dumbed down society, and even our economic models are driven by wasteful Spending along with environmental destruction and social bondage.

 

[Satsui no Hadou]

A very interesting time to be in the Game as we were here when the world was still 100% analog and thus can feel the difference. Or maybe not. To me the main thing that stands out is very, very binary thinking (how ironic, considering the sign of the times) with hugely reduced nuance in the forms of shades of gray which means no considering of other perspectives or new information allowed in that doesn't fit what they expect to see in order to confirm their rightness. Crazier still is how people celebrate their ignorance...

Have you noticed the shift?

Humans can not handle such changes in tech, especially when they threaten to radically change the way we view and interact with other humans. Human relationships are becoming increasingly transactional in nature right when individuals are becoming increasingly atomized from broader society.

The internet reinforces ideas that we don’t even really believe. Look how quickly some people can jump from one position to the next simply because it conforms to our worldview. Some people carry contradicting beliefs and have no way to rationalize these things they are not being challenged. All the truth we believe is relative, and it’s all seeping from one pocket of the internet to the primordial ooze of the public consciousness. All this information is outside of the scope of a simple human, and we don’t know what to do with it.

 

[TEH]

The average person is brain dead. We’re above average here because we like to read and respond with paragraphs on social media … and we’re still stupid. Now think about all of the mindless androids out there. It’s scary …

 

[skyrunner1]

Postmodernity in motion..

 

[Wild self]

It started around 2000 when people stopped caring about quality control and used the Master P formula to flood the markets with sub-quality products. From music to video games to movies, QUANTITY with superficial shine overshadows quality.

Now we almost in 2023, and people cannot comprehend a 16 bar verse from an older rapper or listen to a 8 minute song from an Old school RnB singer anymore. Our attention spans are literally crackbaby-like.

 

[OfTheCross]

Pick up an average person from the street now compared to one from 1999 and the difference would be quite obvious. The irony of people without the net being better informed and aware than those with really speaks volumes as critical thinking especially has all but vanished. Creativity is in the dumps and wave riding is the defacto standard.

Its something I noticed recently and these algos have definitely got something to do with it as people are being fed when they think they're searching but can't tell the difference as their awareness has been shaped to ignore this. Its not just the net, even though thats a huge part of the devolution, as we've seen the general levels of stress be ramped so high that its now a constant background noise that most become numb to because if it ain't one thing is a something something nother... Like all the added environmental toxins, preservatives and the non stop, always on grift that begs and pleads for your attention from your very own portal.

A very interesting time to be in the Game as we were here when the world was still 100% analog and thus can feel the difference. Or maybe not. To me the main thing that stands out is very, very binary thinking (how ironic, considering the sign of the times) with hugely reduced nuance in the forms of shades of gray which means no considering of other perspectives or new information allowed in that doesn't fit what they expect to see in order to confirm their rightness. Crazier still is how people celebrate their ignorance...

Have you noticed the shift?

Dumbed down and weakened.

Every technological advancement seems to be making it worse

 

[010101]

99.9% the masses getting dumber

at the same time .1% is smarter than anytime in recorded history

the gap is growing..........

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[CopiousX]

Pick up an average person from the street now compared to one from 1999 and the difference would be quite obvious. The irony of people without the net being better informed and aware than those with really speaks volumes as critical thinking especially has all but vanished. Creativity is in the dumps and wave riding is the defacto standard.

Its something I noticed recently and these algos have definitely got something to do with it as people are being fed when they think they're searching but can't tell the difference as their awareness has been shaped to ignore this. Its not just the net, even though thats a huge part of the devolution, as we've seen the general levels of stress be ramped so high that its now a constant background noise that most become numb to because if it ain't one thing is a something something nother... Like all the added environmental toxins, preservatives and the non stop, always on grift that begs and pleads for your attention from your very own portal.

A very interesting time to be in the Game as we were here when the world was still 100% analog and thus can feel the difference. Or maybe not. To me the main thing that stands out is very, very binary thinking (how ironic, considering the sign of the times) with hugely reduced nuance in the forms of shades of gray which means no considering of other perspectives or new information allowed in that doesn't fit what they expect to see in order to confirm their rightness. Crazier still is how people celebrate their ignorance...

Have you noticed the shift?

I dont think we are dummer. I just think stupid people have been megaphones in modern society. The proliferation of the internet in 99' gave voices to the slow people on earth. It got monumentally worse with the birth of vine, ig, and tiktok; all of which will prioritize showing the 100 idiots in the room instead of the 300 geniuses. You'd have no idea our nation had just perfected nuclear-fusion last week based on your feed on twitter or tiktok.







Statistically speaking, humanity has been getting dramatically smarter and smarter with every new generation ever since the 1800s.

Link 2 -> Flynn effect - Wikipedia








As a side note, i dont think MAGA as a concept wouldve worked in the 90s, cause there was no convenient medium for stupid people congregate. Same could be said for fringe theories like vaccine denial, holocaust denial, slavery denial, moonlanding denial, pyramid schemes like blessing wheels, scams like forex, etc

 

[cheek100]

I like to think my third eye is open wider than the average mf around me. Most people I encounter are generally dumb followers. It’s great for business tho lol.

 

[get these nets]

I don't think there's a big difference. People have less excuse to be uninformed in 2022.

But MFers are who they are, whether they have access to information or not.

 

[TheHonorableOmarSharif]

As an "old head:" i can attest....people dumber than folks in the past. And we have smart phones and open ai chat bots. That says a lot.

 

[Kitsune]

The ultimate reward is slaughter so why give cattle the ability to perceive the futility of their own existence.
That’s cruel and unusual punishment, death is one thing, knowing you died a sucker is another, that’s death by 1000 lashes, imagine a smug soul destroying smirk is the last thing you see before you enter the abyss

 

[Koli_Kat]

I don't think average intelligence is moving that much but I do think the gap between intelligence levels are widening, similar to the wealth gap.

Society has made it easy as hell for people to not have to think critically when it comes to social issues, politics, information obtaining and even travel (gps)

But a the same time with the right resources (usually money and environment) you can maximize your intelligence levels

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Pick up average persons from the street