Human intelligence may be declining.
That would certainly go a long way toward explaining the phenomenon of low-information voters and Barack Obama’s most recent election victory (plus the fact that Joe Biden was ever trusted to do anything besides dress up in the uniform of a Honduran field marshal and open doors for the patrons of some fancy hotel).
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ReplyDeleteI can see this theory doing splendidly well, with the good doctor being exemplar #1.
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Thank goodness there's an antidote for this. The more single malt whiskey I drink the smarter I get.....(and better looking, too.)
ReplyDeleteYou know, this can be fixed. All we need to do is take the warning labels off things (Do not feed the grizzly bears!) and the problem would right itself shortly. Stupid people would once more self-remove themselves from the population, and all would be well.
ReplyDeleteSwampy: You're righter than you know.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, we continue to evolve, and our brains are getting bigger. What's up with that?
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ReplyDeleteYeah, you have a point there, it's along the lines of what I've believed for years about the "miracle of modern medicine": it allows the truly stupid to survive long enough to reproduce.