In the US for example the average IQ is falling. There is not only no advantage in the evolutionary sense of having very much intelligence, it is now actually advantageous to be dumb as a box of rocks. People that are poor, unintelligent, and won't work are paid big bucks to stay at home and make babies. Many inmates in the Texas prison system have dozens of kids. When Daddy goes to prison his kids get social security benefits as if he had been a worker and died. This is why you so often see people on welfare that live in public housing driving new cars.
Intelligent hard-working people want to give their kids things like a college education, nice clothes, and plenty to eat and so limit their reproduction. Given enough time the stupid lazy people will become an ever-larger part of our society. I think that we may eventually become two different species.
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The PROBLEM is that while we have left the jungle, not all nations have left that mentality behind them. The people rioting and burning in our big cities are what the future may hold for all of our current western societies. When you become too weak to protect yourself eventually something is going to get you if you leave you protected places. When a society becomes so weak that they allow the things that are not only being allowed in our cities but to seemingly encourage it, we and our culture have left our safe places and something is sure to come and get us.
TexDanm... I don't know you well but I sure know these two quotes. They are the biggest load of self-aggrandizing, stereotyping, bs, propaganda, I have had the unfortunate privilege of being forced to listen to in 67 years and God's Gift ~ I get the blessing of hearing this over and over EVERYDAY. And, this is not the first post that you have used to circumvent Debi's rule's for a political ideology. YOURS.
NONE of your 'facts' are true. Period. This post is a flagrant POLITICAL view and personal ideology marketed EXACTLY towards those who seem to need to bully and blame THEIR shortcomings and lack of self-accountability as a citizen of this apparently "s*it" country, on anyone but themselves - and two weeks ago - I drew a line in listening to this spew out of supposedly 'more intelligent' people's mouth into MY ear - drew a breath - and used MY VOICE. I put TWO neighbors and one very good friend out the gate - FOR GOOD - over such totally asinine and RESEARCHABLE falsehoods. I am not stopping HERE.
I am an 5th Generation AMERICAN who's Father's, Grandfathers, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, Brothers, Sons and DAUGHTERS have been on the front line defending YOU since the first World War - and all the way to NOW in Afghanistan. I am a PATRIOT and love my Country as my heart. It sickens me to watch spoiled, holier then thou, apparently "chosen by God" to be better than... individuals ... stir hate and discontent and alright LIES about their fellow citizens with easily refutable 'facts and statistics'- while our Son's and Daughter's fight and die for your 'Right' to diminish the very values and honor they CONTINUE to defend.
By the way - Protest is a RIGHT. And YOU and YOUR S have been exercising that right for almost 4 years (and multiple deaths). Even if it is NOT totally peaceful - in your head - either was The Revolution, The Boston Tea Party, the Civil Rights Movements, The Viet Nam Protest, or Against Nuclear Armament, Kent State was though - and four students died by the governments hand... or more recently... The DAKOTA ACCESS PROTEST - in which the same propaganda for corporate marketer's brought in private security, local enforcement, good old boys and paid instigator's who proceeded to tear gas old women, set dogs on men, women and children, send gallons of High Pressured water into whole groups of OLD PEOPLE and Young children in sub zero temperatures - ON THEIR OWN SOVEREIGN LAND - I know, I was THERE. AND these protester's wore MASKS - it's on video for all to see - so, Get Over Yourself.
While all you 'survival of the fittest', 'more evolved then' strut - you are the VERY same one's that fold immediately into tantrums when faced with - A fricken Mask. I am trying DESPERATELY to put my community back together - since day ONE of this virus - when all the 'prepper's' and their conspiracy theories and Civil War! chants - who fled here over the last ten years - went bat sh*t crazy, ran in circles, screamed and threatened and even ATTACKED - innocent individuals - like a pack of rabid dogs.
Totally lost their s*it. BECAUSE? We don't know? Whatever.
Here is the thing though - this mindless, thoughtless, self-involvement - this US against THEM credo... is yours to hold... Your Right, Your Voice. However, you don't hold. You spread. You spew. You preen and gloat and bully and PACK.
This is NOT a Right.
It threatens and undermines and violates and deflects and stirs discontent ... DEFLECTS away from COMMUNITY and COUNTRY and UNITY of Citizens in CRISIS as ALL Americans struggle to do what we ALWAYS have done in Crisis - join together and STAND. Help where we can help. Develop Paths and Plans for the good of ALL Americans, and FIGHT like crazy to re-build America - which has ALWAYS been great - Standing side BY side.
AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE NOT ON THE WHOLE, LAZY, STUPID, RAPING YOUR TAXES FOR WELFARE, BABY MAKING, SOCIALIST, COMMIES. They are hard working, compassionate, PASSIONATE, Innovative, Courageous, Diverse, INTELLIGENT, Individuals... who treat their neighbors as themselves. Together - poor, white, black, yellow, and brown, immigrants one and all - WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY from sea to shining sea - and FINALLY are sharing the benefits with the INDIGENOUS Peoples our land baron forefathers STOLE it from... Many of who, by the way, stood side by side with Americans against the British AND France in THOSE wars for freedom and STILL fight side by side with us on distant shores to KEEP that freedom - DESPITE being totally and completely considered - expendable - by the elite and 'privileged' you are so closely aligning yourself and your self worth with.
The 'dumbing down of America' is NOT to do with the poor or the 'uneducated' or down-trodden or homeless or illegal. It is not to do with skin color or CHILDREN OF ANY COLOR OR AGE OR ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OR COUNTRY.
Take a look in the mirror. THAT is the reflection of the dumbing down of America. But it is not a reflection of our Future as a humanity.
"By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother." 1 John 3:10 ESV