Have Americans gotten dumber over the years?

[Unknown Poster]

 

[TransJenner]

like george carlin said: they want us just smart enough to run the machines at work, and not smart enough to question how bad the rich and the government are fukking us over

This post is pretty deep

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yes you have.

I haven't watched television or owned one since June 8th, 2008. Since then its just been listening to music on youtube, reading books, reading articles online, working, skateboarding, making music, and living life.

I don't watch movies in theatres or movies on netflix or hulu either.

Not necessarily trying to correlate media consumption with intelligence but I feel I have to exercise my mind everyday and learn new things. Tv, movies, video games, etc...just gets in the way.

 

[jerniebert]

Trump is president. That should be enough proof how dumb people are.

 

[Lord_nikon]

Welcome to Costco i love you

 

[mrken12]

*Looks at who the President Elect is*

Is this really a question? This country has reached the extreme depths of idiocy.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Trump is president. That should be enough proof how dumb people are.

Yep.

Can't really say much more than this.

 

[EndDomination]

Nope the internet & social media just exposes more dummies on a bigger platform.

This is exactly it.
There are a lot of people who have incredibly stupid opinions, that I wouldn't have found out unless I'd seen their posts on social media.
If you want to think about something scary, think about the level of plagiarism before 1998.

 

[JackRoss]

Didn't give folks that much credit to begin with



Social media confirming my suspicions daily

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

like george carlin said: they want us just smart enough to run the machines at work, and not smart enough to question how bad the rich and the government are fukking us over

Agreed.

And these dummies fighting and fukking each other over for little ass raises and meaningless titles

 

[JackRoss]

shyts like people are missing a step or two... I tried to convince myself that people were being dumb on purpose but the bag is mixed.... People seem to just be gravitating to what they want to be right and just saying logic ain't shyt.... Not sure if it's willful ignorance or if people are just dumb as shyt... Something is off... Think I'll just go with the "We all died September 11th" shyt....

 

[⠀⠀⠀]

no we just hear about dumb people more due to social media

 

[outordinary]

Watch that Kodak Black interview and then read the posts of idiots defending his stupidity. One fool negged me for c00ning cuz I had the audacity to criticize Kodak. Seriously though, a lot of folks are purposely ignorant. This might be the most enlightened age, yet one only needs to look at the comment section on Breitbart to see how pitifully ignorant and sheeplike people are. Or Huffpost to see the Left's stupidity.

Really though, Trump truly is the President this modern American society deserves. He couldnt be more fitting. Look at those that voted for him as they bask in their ignorance. Personally I think its a sign of decadence. Some think greed, or sexual perversions when it comes to decadence. I think another symptom of decadence is willful ignorance. In the dark ages folks in high places were forcing ignorance upon The difference between then and now is in 2017 Americans have the luxury to remain ignorant and exercise that right freely.

That is the main point, In America you can choose to be ignorant about many things and people choose so. We already know America is a center of all those signs of decadence. It's pretty much worshipped here. Thotties and manwhores worshipped (yeah I'm talking about yall out here fukking 30+ chicks raw and shyt), having money and flaunting it everywhere, hating on the people that search for opposing information and choosing to believe what they think is right over the mainstream info is all worshipped here. But ignorance is bliss out here for people and they are happy as long as they can do whatever and people will forgive them.

Yeah good thing we are all so intelligent and knowledgable here
. No offense OP and everyone here but i fukking hate ppl like yall thinking ur fukking geniuses n shyt.

OP never said he was a damn genius. In this world, you either know everything or you know nothing.

It's true we have more information at our finger tips but no one ever uses it to search for opposing ideas.

Instead we use it to affirm what we already believe. Even if it's from a suspect source.

Affirmation >>>> information for most people

Exactly, people like it believe everything they were told about shyt like history and not challenge it. The Internet is a bounty of info that's underutilized by people.

 

[the cac mamba]

Well I can't see a society full of geniuses progressing. You need a working class

well the working class has been squeezed, badly. a few decades ago, that motherfukker could acstually support a family

 

[jackswstd]

like george carlin said: they want us just smart enough to run the machines at work, and not smart enough to question how bad the rich and the government are fukking us over

A wise man Carlin was, wish he was still around.