Yes, this is how paradoxical humans are. People my age were smarter back when we had less information on our world. Now, we have more, but we're stupider than ever.I agree with Jorster, you can't just pick the bad examples of what some humans do today and say it's a general trend we've become more stupid. You're essentially comparing a group of stupid people today with a group of smart people from the past and leaving out the opposites. There were also many stupid of what people did in the past. Consider nazism, racism, sexism, anti-gay opinions were much more widespread, etc., fewer were literate, science less advanced... There always were clever and stupid people and a lot of people in between. The fact that you still find stupid people in our 7 billion population doesn't mean we're all getting more stupid.
revolutionizing cancer research, combating the flu epidemic, starting their own accounting business, going from being homeless to attending Harvard, or creating a tiny motor just a quarter of an inch across that uses water instead of an electromagnet to spin.
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People my age were smarter back when we had less information on our world. Now, we have more, but we're stupider than ever.He provided examples just like you provided examples... Examples aren't proof of a general trend. You can't say the general public demographic is getting more stupid based on those examples.
see for yourselfThat's not evidence. I could say the same to you. And even by doing that you still wouldn't get any more informed. You only see people as they are now. Not the people from the past generation you're comparing to when they were at the same age. By 'seeing for yourse'f you will still have no clue how they were and thus you have nothing to compare to. In addition you only see a tiny amount of people that's not representative of the whole population unless you make an actual representative investigation... go ahead and do that or post one showing we collectively get more stupid and I might take it seriously. What you posted certainly is not evidence.
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As a member of this new generation I see where Xriqxa is coming from being surrounded by idiots but there are also a great many that are looking to Change the face of the world(both literally and metaforicly)False, in my experience. I go to a public school, with an average age of about 16. I know literally no one that makes me feel like I'm "Surrounded by idiots", and my school is just shy of 3K people.
the ones that do retarded stuff in an attempt to be funny, can often be intelligent, they're just broken humans or simply like showing off themselves in a crazy way.