Over forty-seven million adults in this country are illiterate. A child who can read and does well in school will be labeled a nerd and ridiculed by others who are too lazy or stupid to learn basic reading and math skills.
It is “cool” to be dumb. And it seems like this trend is getting worse as time goes on.
Civilization depends upon the quality of its human supporters. Before a civilization can arise and continue to grow there must be and continue to be a superior stock of human supporters, which build and sustain that civilization.
When that civilization ceases to produce superiors it will collapse.
Our modern civilization was not the first. Many others came before us. After reaching a point of peak power and influence, they stagnated and perished into ruin. The basic cause of disaster was almost always from a decline or breakdown from within.
Any civilization depends upon the quality of its human supporters. Without a continued supply of intelligent and moral people to make a population no civilization can stand.
Before the advent of modern civilization, very few of the unfit could survive long enough to reproduce. Man lived in a state of nature; qualities of strength and intelligence were necessary for survival.
The weak and dumb soon fell by the wayside being weeded out by the process of natural selection. Nature eliminated the weak, while preserving and allowing the strong and intelligent to survive and breed freely, insuring a superior stock.
Primitive man relied upon muscle, both animal and human for his existence. Now oil supports life on earth. Everything sustaining our modern civilization relies upon oil. Oil has made life easy. It has allowed a surplus population of inferiors to thrive.
It has modified the process of natural selection and survival. We can now grow more food, produce more goods and extend the life span of the population and cater to the needs and welfare of the inferior.
Modern civilization has enabled many weak, stupid, and degenerate persons to live and have children, which in turn repeat the process, increasing the numbers of the inferior with each passing generation.
The inferior thrive and multiply while the superior decrease in number leaving every seceding generation worse off and dumber than before. How long will it be before we fall back to the lower levels of barbarism or even savagery?
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Excellent post, M.D.
Your analysis of the current situation is quite correct, although life is significantly improved from what it was in the space of about two centuries, not all these changes have been for the best. Most of the technological developments have taken the work out of almost every job, meaning that there’s nearly always a shortcut.
The biggest problem with modern life which has destroyed natural selection is the fact that it’s basically impossible to fail. If you flunk at school or even college, there’s a second chance, and another and another, and then there’s always social welfare to live on in many countries if you continuously fail to change or evolve.
Although the majority of these chances are positive, and people make use of them, a large number do not. That is when we get leeches kept alive through crime and/or the taxes paid by those who make something of their lives.
Totally agree with your analysis too. It is quite scary and frustrating.
I think we should also consider that this situation has created overpopulation and that overpopulation works directly against our survival (and against the survival of everything sharing the same planet with us). This has become a taboo issue that creates emotional turmoil when touched (reasons are of a wide range, but religious and humanistic ones represent the biggest percentage), but that doesn’t change the fact that it is there, eating us up while we choose not to address it. We have all the knowledge we need to make things constructive, yet we choose not to know/believe. I call that “ignorance by choice” and in my book that is one of the worst sins.
You think you’re bothered by these observations? Think about having three-quarters of a century behind you, and having been fully aware of this general decline!
I must agree with desertrat. I also have [nearly] three-quarters of a century behind me. 25 of those years were spent reliving grammar and high school in the attempt to see my children ‘properly educated’ . I was, and am, ultra frusterated at the systematic down-grading of education. Trying to stop the decline was/is like trying to stop a mudslide with your hands.
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