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Subject: The world is becoming more and more problematic.

Common sense isn't so common anymore. I always think about this every time I watch the news and witness the stupidity going on around us. Are we dumbstruck by today's society? Are we the reason for our own destruction?


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  • 11.28.2012 1:23 PM PDT

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Thanks to entropy.
Everyone give a round of applause to entropy.

  • 11.28.2012 1:23 PM PDT

Subject: If you saw a meteor coming toward Earth, what would you do?Posted by: juniorbandit96
Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

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Maybe it's because people rely on the computers to do the thinking.

  • 11.28.2012 1:23 PM PDT
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Look at the world ten years ago, and then twenty years ago, and then thirty years ago.

I guarantee the average IQ has gone up since then.

  • 11.28.2012 1:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: ListenClosely
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Because there were less problems in the times of smallpox, monarchies, theocracies, and general illiteracy.

You just think that because you realized, "Wow, the world isn't perfect."

  • 11.28.2012 1:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tibetz
Look at the world ten years ago, and then twenty years ago, and then thirty years ago.

I guarantee the average IQ has gone up since then.

In Asia and Europe...

  • 11.28.2012 1:28 PM PDT

Posted by: Dodge Reborn
The flood is always butthurt about something.


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Your idea relies on the assumption that people weren't this dumb ever before. I assure you, no matter how dumb people are now, they were dumber earlier.

  • 11.28.2012 1:28 PM PDT

Its only because of the media that these stupid things appear to be so common, this probably has always happened except no one heard of it or cared.

  • 11.28.2012 1:32 PM PDT

Congratulations. You're literate!

Every single generation is convinced that the next one is going to the dogs. "Society" is no worse off now than it was 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, or 100 years ago.

  • 11.28.2012 1:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tibetz
Look at the world ten years ago, and then twenty years ago, and then thirty years ago.

I guarantee the average IQ has gone up since then.


I wouldnt say IQ. I would say we have gained knowledge and understanding.

  • 11.28.2012 1:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tibetz
Look at the world ten years ago, and then twenty years ago, and then thirty years ago.

I guarantee the average IQ has gone up since then.

I would argue that that's true because the people of underdeveloped countries are increasingly gaining access to basic education.

But when you look at the people in the developed countries, people who should be living it a freakin' utopia... suicide, mental health problems, obesity... it's all on the rise.

I agree with you, OP. It's extremely difficult to describe; it would take a lot of thought to hammer out a definable measure of how stupid people seem to be getting. But I agree with you. We are killing ourselves.

  • 11.28.2012 1:39 PM PDT

Are you saying The world hasn't always had problems?

  • 11.28.2012 1:39 PM PDT