Why are there so many stupid people?

I don’t believe that there are more stupid or ignorant people around today that at any other point in time. The bell curve distribution is the same as it ever was. It’s just that there are so many loud, self-aggrandizing individuals today, whose inane thoughts and opinions are amplified on social media.

Growing up, my parents had very little money. The both left school at 14/15 due to coming from very large families back in the day. However, they were both naturally very intelligent people and filled our house with books. They pushed us all to succeed academically knowing that education is a passport to a brighter future. My family was seen as ‘odd’ by the neighbors, because we studied hard and had ambition.

This anti-intellectualism is ever present even today in modern Ireland. My eldest daughter is 5 and has started school. I do some extra reading with her and teach her some simple maths and a few words of a European language that I speak. My wife is teaching her Irish. She’s a very bright little thing and absorbs it all like a sponge. I love seeing her learning and developing an intellectual curiosity. Needless to say, I’ve heard cousins of mine bitching behind my back saying that we are driving our children too hard and putting them under pressure. It’s total BS of course. We’re just trying to foster a love of learning.

This is viewed suspiciously by some segments of society, almost as if it’s a perversion. I guess it’s more socially acceptable to spend your evenings glued to Love Island..

Altogether now......

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People who think that 50% of people are of below average intelligence need to learn the difference between mean and median

Basically if there are 5 people in a room and Elon musk walks in, the average net worth is about 50bn. That does not mean 50% of people are worth over 50bn. The median is just the middle person's net worth

As a doctor said to me recently- all the wrong people are having children !

a couple of long term never employed are having 6 or 7 children , aren’t interested in how the cost of providing for them and are dependent on welfare and handouts .

whilst a hardworking couple with both working in reasonable / good employment might have one or two because they want to do things right and can’t fund anymore

the 7 from the first family becomes 49 in one generation whilst the 2 from the working family becomes 4 .

it’s a huge problem in rural communities as the sharp young people with brains head to Dublin or abroad whilst those who don’t work multiply going nowhere only upping the percentage of low brainpower people in a town .

Yellow boxes at traffic lights. I don't know who's more stupid, the person who created such a system or the person who drives into the yellow box when their exit isn't clear and holding up traffic. Nobody is going anywhere the longer the idiot sits in the box but then they can't go on red.

Just saw an unstable young lad at Body & Soul festival, knocking with his knuckles on the entrance to a tent.

No answer,.........

With a normally distribute bell curve they're pretry much the same.

There’s not more stupid people as such , but 20 years ago only a certain demographic had internet access , through college and work etc , now every cnt does and we’re seeing a large volume of uneducated opinions

I blame plugs. Once you weren't able to wire your own plug and they all came moulded to your toaster, people didn't have to achieve a certain level of competence or dexterity. It was the start of the state safety net for everything. Believe me, in the future you'll be able to trace the downfall of humanity to the day that moulded plugs became commonplace.