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If you've ever wondered why the future we got looks a lot duller than what we were promised fifty years ago—in other words, meaningful technological advance has slowed or even stopped—you might next ask why you think that trend is going to ever reverse.

takimag.com/article/the_my…
Especially when real IQ among Westerners is dropping by about a point per generation, and has likely been dropping for several generations.

Barring a real + widespread advance in CRISPR-type tech, that lost intelligence is never coming back, and will only get worse
>when the guy who wrote the article explains it better than I ever could

His replies to the comments are a gold mine

scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/myt…
This is supposed to be impressive, but if you think about it for a minute, it's pathetic. Von Neumann would have been killing us with these within 12 months.

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There's no lamer society than one that uses 16 years of mass education and nonstop media propaganda to tell you what's okay to think, + journo-led mass media mobs to destroy you if you disobey

Just tell me what to think and jail me if I resist, at least that's honest you coward
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I hate AOC-poasting but this is a sick joke. Pretending the Green New Deal was just a few ideas she sketched out while eating her mug of macaroni over the kitchen sink.

As if it wasn't workshopped by her massive behind-the-scenes team. Just lmao
This is what you must understand, AOC isn't "real," she's fake, she has immense backing from Justice Democrats, Young Turks, DSA, prog groups of all kind I don't even know about

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Do you really think they were "just trying to start a conversation," lmao

This very response of hers is the workshopped result of these same exact groups working in a frenzy to save face after their grand policy for the progressive future went down like the Hindenburg
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Universalism plus neoliberalism guarantees crater-low fertility rates, as it deludes people into competing for "resources" that are in most cases illusory

Interventions don't work. If you're fine, your kids will average out to be fine

This ideology is civilizational suicide
Let's think through neolib thought: they commonly believe that prosperity and mass education—to them, the things that elevate dull people to greatness—largely didn't exist until the 20th century

So how did we even create people capable of forging the 20th century?
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