Birth control "clean up"
Intelligence IQ is highly heritable! The world is being inundated with morons, overbreeders, and useless eaters!(Or not)
it actually probably is genetic. but if you are poor, or never get good scholling, or go to work the farm at 16, odds are, you'll never know your or your kids could have been einstiens.
Only if you believe in the all-powerful g. But, to me, g is about as magical as the "soul."
Actually, I did have a thought, ideas like those presented in the Marching Morons (Idiocracy is intentionally comical, so it doesn't seem right bash it directly too much) might be a case of projecting a perceived cultural decline onto genetics. Remember that people gravitate to "sciencey" explanations, even if they're wrong, so perhaps rather than a simple idea of cultural suicide, a biological explanation is preferred because genetics is complicated and far more "sciencey". Not to mention how blaming biology makes it an uncontrollable inevitability, which robs us of any and all responsibility for it.
That was more or less the line of thought behind the dysgenic strain of doomsayers in the eugenics movement, which was a continuation of a long tradition of fear-mongering about the inevitable decline of civilization and kids these days.
Any convenient explanation that supports that the younger generation is a shitter than yours is immensely attractive. Why do you think you get "n00b" comments on the internet?
Any convenient explanation that supports that the younger generation is a shitter than yours is immensely attractive. Why do you think you get "n00b" comments on the internet?
WTF. the younger generation *is* shittier than mine! :-) my nephew decided that he and his friends were going to head butt a train. a moving one. and he is a normal american teen raised by normal american adults.
and some pot tossed in, i'm sure.