Man, this is some boomer ass question. People have been saying every is getting dumber for millennia, and it’s never really been true
Generalizing this as boomer is a sign of lacking intelligence. You spend an awful lot of time generalizing things you simply don’t understand, do you?
Petty angry downvotes. Awwwww~
I’m not generalising anything. I think this specific post is stupid, and I explained why.
If you have nothing nice to say then piss off. Simple as that. How fucking hard is it for you fucking lemmings to understand? Go back to fucking Reddit, asshole.
You seem to be lost, stranger. This is Lemmy—we’re decently civilized here. Your tone suggests you must be looking for Reddit.
Could you back instead. I can happily and confidently speak for everyone here that we’d happily keep that commentor over you.
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My guy, being nice doesn’t mean letting nonsense go unquestioned.
Lol troll, your post isn’t nice. Delete it if you mean what you say.
Um, no? You don’t dictate shit.
IQs have been steadily increasing. Your premise is flawed.
broadly gestures at everything
It’s basically this. Almost everything looks like an Onion article these days.
Making a lemmy post to ask an open ended opinion question and then getting hostile with people in the comments over their answers.
Let me correct that for you - I made a open ended question and I get an asshole with a snarky comment that opens their reply with a term followed by generalization. You’re ignorant.
Rightward politics correlates with low intelligence.
Any time you read or skim through anything right-wing, you swore that you were smarter before you began to.
Look at an IQ map and political map of the US. The stupid and right wing maps are nearly identical.
By design. The more intelligent people are the less likely they are to vote for them.
It’s a false premise. What happened is that the internet allowed all the village idiots, who were previously contained and ridiculed in their own villages, to connect with each other and become more confident in their idiocy. The internet is a support group for morons.
Perfect description of lemmygrad.
“Society” has never been intelligent in my opinion.
Some groups of human being can have collective intelligence, but usually it is time limited ⌚ and the merchands💵 do not like that. => 🚽
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Reddits moderators. :)
While it would be nice if everyone was super smart, I feel points like “people are getting dumber” have been held at all points in time. It’s like that collage of clippings from American newspapers saying “nobody wants to work anymore” ever since the early 1900s.
I don’t agree with this statement. I think “intelligence”, however you define that, has fit pretty cleanly to a Gaussian distribution since the dawn of man. If anything, I think advances in nutrition, preventative healthcare, and access to information has driven pretty significant negative skew. I don’t have anything to back up this claim, but my guess would be that median intelligence has actually increased - it just may not seem as such since the population continues to rise, so the raw number of dummies seems overwhelming.
But hey, who I am to define what’s smart? Maybe an inflatable hot tub, 30 rack of Busch, RAM 1500 on an 84 month note, zero turn mower, DirecTV with Fox News and the funds to pay for it all is the real secret to a happy life. I’m just someone blabbing about nothing with a bunch of Reddit exiles.
People saying mortified when they mean horrified.
A person is smart. People are dumb.
Isolate a person and he or she is smart in atleast some area. Get a group together and they start feeding off of each other’s dumbness, compounding it.
With the introduction of the Internet, people are now able to feed off each other’s dumbness at astounding rates. Algorithms herd them together to accelerate the trend. You and I are not immune to this, though understanding and acknowledging it helps.
I wonder if the first human parents or grandparents ever went “Why little Grug not smart like us? Why Grug put nut and seed into hole in ground and not eat like us? Tribe is doomed!”
