idiocracy
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that video has some truth in it. I honestly believe that we are being dumbed down on purpose via public schools in order to maintain some level of control over the masses.
I can't think of anything intelligent to say.
The human race has been in a steady decline since the discovery of fire.
The hunter-gather spent around 2-3 hours a day collecting food. For those who gathered wheat this number was drastically lower.
It wasn't intellectually demanding, quite the opposite. There are still hunter-gatherer cultures today. Does this mean they're geniuses?
Somehow, the author thinks an Athenian from 1000BC is a hunter-gatherer. If you know anything about the Greek Dark Ages you know that they did have agriculture, and the population of Attica grew too much during that time.
There's this little gem:"His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99 per cent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer communities surviving on our wits, leading to big-brained humans."
Hey genius, 1% of 200,000 is 2,000. You're saying we've not even had an agriculture base for two thousand years? Dumbass.
It wasn't intellectually demanding, quite the opposite. There are still hunter-gatherer cultures today. Does this mean they're geniuses?
Somehow, the author thinks an Athenian from 1000BC is a hunter-gatherer. If you know anything about the Greek Dark Ages you know that they did have agriculture, and the population of Attica grew too much during that time.
There's this little gem:"His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99 per cent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer communities surviving on our wits, leading to big-brained humans."
Hey genius, 1% of 200,000 is 2,000. You're saying we've not even had an agriculture base for two thousand years? Dumbass.
so to sum it up.. what you're saying is the author is also becoming dumber ;-)
So we expect 10 year olds to understand math/written language/basic science/fire is hot. 100 years ago knowing math or how to write made you genius depending on where you were. 200 years ago undertanding math or written word made you a genius, period. 500 years ago knowing math and science made you a demi-god. 1000 years ago people were still finding different ways to prove that, yes, fire is indeed hot. So we are dumber as a whole because not everyone can fix their computers. The concept of a computer was practically magic 100 years ago. Yeah, we as a people are dumber...
Well, I think the capacity for intelligence versus the accumulation of knowledge is what is being argued here. A homo sapien from any time in history, if born today, would have the capacity to understand anything our children learn now. It's just that we've had the accumulated knowledge. I didn't "learn" about DNA, someone explained it to me and I believed them. A caveman could do that.
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