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The Stupid Takeover

The Age of Stupid

In this section, the speaker discusses how stupidity has become a positive evolutionary adaptation and how it makes people better entrepreneurs, businessmen, and politicians. He also talks about how stupid people have higher reproductive success than clever people.

Stupidity as an Evolutionary Adaptation

  • Stupidity is a positive evolutionary adaptation.
  • The stupid evaluate risks less well so they are willing to take on the world without fear of the consequences of their actions.
  • The stupid get a chance to have sex which is much higher than the clever.

The Age of Stupid

  • We are heading into the age of stupidity idiocracy in the age of stupid.
  • Intelligence and intellect will be outsourced technologically into our devices.
  • We use the latest innovations to play games or watch videos on YouTube and exchange trivialities on Facebook.

Women Prefer Stupid Men

In this section, the speaker talks about how women increasingly prefer stupid men because our contemporary world is ruled by stupid people. He also discusses how traits that afford reproductive success survive in today's world.

Women Prefer Inferior Men

  • Women increasingly prefer stupid men because our contemporary world is ruled by stupid people.
  • Several years ago, women preferred intelligent men but now they prefer men with an IQ lower than 120 to men with an IQ higher than 145.

Traits for Reproductive Success

  • Traits that afford you reproductive success survive in today's world.
  • What used to be inferiority is now an evolutionary advantage.

The Deterioration of Youngsters

In this section, the speaker discusses how youngsters today are focused on money, image, and fame and they disparage values such as community volunteerism, the environment, and knowledge acquisition. He also talks about how illiteracy is rising in younger generations.

Focus on Money, Image, and Fame

  • Youngsters today are focused on money, image, and fame.
  • Ostentatious social activism is a form of virtue signaling.
  • They're posing, faking to garner likes and attention.

Rising Illiteracy

  • Other surveys have documented a rising level of illiteracy in the younger generations.
  • Many of them are unable to read a label on a bottle or medicine.

The Rise of Stupidity

In this section, the speaker discusses how the sheer number of stupid people is overwhelming all systems of governance and decision-making.

The Menace of Stupidity

  • Rather than fight back against stupidity, intelligent people choose to withdraw and seclude themselves.
  • The percentage of stupid people in the general population is increasing, leading to a drop in global IQ since the 1950s.
  • Modern medicine ensures that intellectually challenged individuals live on to reproduce, leading to a daunting prospect of idiocracy.

Democracy and Meritocracy

  • Democracy has allowed for the pernicious rise of stupid people's influence in government, workplaces, and military hierarchies.
  • One person one vote has invaded hierarchical environments where it does not belong.
  • People are not equal, yet they have been given equal rights through democracy.

Vandalism of Knowledge

  • Crowdsourcing has democratized knowledge generation and transfer but also led to widespread vandalism by stupid people.
  • Internet search engines rank results based on votes and views rather than content quality or author authority.
  • The education system has collapsed, producing illiterate graduates who are irrational.

Anti-elitism and Victimhood

  • Stupid people hate intellectually superior individuals and want everything brought down to their level.
  • Political correctness embodies an ethos that values victimhood over excellence or expertise.
  • Egalitarianism has taken over society, leading to negotiations between unequals such as doctors and patients.

Expertise and Opinion

  • People are not equal, and expertise is not just another opinion.
  • If someone is an expert, others should shut up and learn from them.

The Impact of Technology on Stupidity

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The Stupid, the Trivial, and the Frivolous are everywhere: among the working classes, of course, but increasingly you can find them displacing the erstwhile elites, spawning hordes of mindless politicians, idiot business tycoons, narcissistic media personalities, gullible clergy, vacuous celebrities, illiterate bestselling authors, athletes with far more brawn than brain, repetitious pop singers, less than mediocre bureaucrats, bovine gatekeepers, and even ignorant and semi-literate academics. Their cacophony drowns the few voices of wisdom, expertise, and experience and their sheer number overwhelms all systems of governance and all mechanisms of decision-making. Rather than futilely fight back this tsunami, the well-educated, the erudite, and the intelligent choose to withdraw and seclude themselves in self-constructed, schizoid ivory towers, all bridges drawn. Imbeciles are a menace to the continued existence not only of our civilization, but also of our species. We may end up being all Homo, no sapiens.